Antiques Disposal
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Publisher Description
A mother-daughter team of antiques dealers finds a body rolled up in a rug in “another amusing mystery” in the popular series (Kirkus Reviews).
Storage wars erupt when Brandy Borne and her suspiciously well-informed mother, Vivian, win an abandoned storage unit’s mystery contents. The good news is a rare vintage cornet. The bad news is the recently stowed body of Big Jim Bob, Vivian's former tipster. Worse, an intruder steals into the Borne home to mete out some ruff justice to Brandy's ferociously fluffy shih tzu, Sushi, while making off with the heirloom horn. When the sleuthing duo finds another stashed victim, the hunt is on for a corpse-hoarding killer trying to blow “Taps” for all concerned…
“This humorous cozy is framed by life in small-town Iowa and teems with quirky characters. It will appeal to readers who enjoy Donna Andrews’ Meg Langslow mysteries.”—Booklist
Includes Brandy Borne's Tips On Antiques!
Praise for Barbara Allan and the Trash ‘n' Treasures Mystery Series. . .
"One of the funniest cozy series going." --Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
"Brandy and her eccentric mother make a hilarious team of snoops." --Joan Hess
"Top pick! Thrills, laugh-out-loud moments and amazingly real relationships." --Romantic Times Book Reviews
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Near the start of Allan's zany sixth antiques mystery set in the Mississippi River town of Serenity (after 2011's Antiques Knock-Off), dotty Vivian Borne and her long-suffering daughter, Brandy, set off for Lucky Four Leaf Storage, whose owner, Big Jim Bob, is auctioning off the unknown contents of one of his units in default. Undaunted by the mouse droppings covering the cardboard boxes in the unit, Vivian wins the auction with her $100 bid. Unfortunately, when mother and daughter return to pick up the boxes, the storage unit is empty, except for a rolled-up rug containing Big Jim Bob's dead body. Might Big Jim Bob's demise be connected to a Bix Beiderbecke cornet later discovered in one of the boxes? A classic gathering of suspects, under the guise of auctioning off the cornet, leads to an unexpected denouement. Allan is the pseudonym of married couple Barbara Collins and Max Allan Collins.
