Lethal in Old Lace
A Consignment Shop Mystery
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- £10.99
Publisher Description
Before bride-to-be Reagan Summerside can tie the knot, she must first untangle a web of mysterious retirement home murders—and prove her neighbors are innocent
There are two social functions in Savannah guaranteed to get people talking: weddings and funerals. And just as consignment shop owner Reagan Summerside agrees to marry the hunky Walker Boone, her neighbors, sisters Annie Fritz and Elsie Abbot, step up their business as professional mourners. They are so successful that the Sleepy Pines Retirement Center has hired them as a part of their retirement package. But the celebration over good business is cut short when the residents at Pines suddenly begin dying at an alarming rate. And the sisters are the first suspects.
Reagan has her doubts, however, and begins to look into the strange phenomenon. But then something even stranger happens: a body winds up in the sisters’ pink Caddy. The evidence begins to pile up and the suspicious case of Willie Fishbine, who swindled the sisters out of a fortune and coincidentally died prior to the Pines case, is reopened.
Not wanting Willie to be buried until they can find the killer responsible for the murders, Reagan must catch the culprit in time to walk down the aisle. Witty, fabulous, and full of charm, Lethal in Old Lace is perfect for fans of Ellery Adams and Jenn McKinlay.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brown graduates to hardcover with her farcical fifth Consignment Shop mystery set in Savannah, Ga. (after 2015's Demise in Denim). When Willie Fishbine, a resident of the Sleepy Pines Retirement Home, dies under suspicious circumstances, Reagan Summerside, the owner of the Prissy Fox Consignment Shop, and her friends contrive to find the killer, which involves postponing Willie's funeral by hiding the body. The subsequent death of Bonnie Sue McGrath, another Sleepy Pines resident, leads to trouble for sisters and professional mourners Elsie and Annie Fritz after her corpse winds up in their car. Meanwhile, Reagan discovers a strange link between womanizer Dexter Thomas and her sleazy ex-husband, Hollis Beaumont, that may relate to the deaths. She must also plan her wedding with Walker Boone, "the hunkiest guy in all Savannah." Fans of broad humor ("I can't believe the light of my life, the song in my soul, the gravy on my mashed potatoes is gone, never to return") will find plenty to like in this cornpone cozy.
