Death Rides a Pony
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- $25.99
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
The second entry in the fun-filled The Fortune Telling Mysteries series sees the Bailey sisters offering light-hearted fortune telling for charity that soon turns deadly.
Sisters Hope and Summer Bailey run Bailey's Boutique, a mystic shop in Asheville, North Carolina. The annual charity festival is approaching, and the sisters are roped in to offering fortune telling to raise money.
Before proceedings can begin, Summer receives a bad Tarot card reading. She fears she'll be left destitute from her upcoming divorce battle as the realtor charged with selling her and her soon-to-be ex-husband's home, Davis Scott, keeps making unwelcome appearances.
Davis's most troublesome appearance comes when he's found dead at the festival. Davis had a bad reputation amongst the Asheville community, but who would go to the lengths of killing him . . . and during a charity event, no less! The Tarot cards predicted a death, but do they hold clues to who the murderer is?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Miller's enjoyable sequel to The Fool Dies Last, sisters Hope and Summer Bailey, the owners of Bailey's Boutique, a mystic shop in Asheville, N.C., reluctantly agree, at their grandmother's urging, to support an upcoming charity festival by setting up a booth for crystal ball readings. These readings, their grandmother reassures them, would be purely for entertainment purposes, not "genuine or serious as they are here at the boutique." Meanwhile, Summer is dismayed by an ominous tarot card reading, given her problems with her controlling soon-to-be ex-husband, "Shifty Gary" Fletcher, who refuses to leave their marital home. Summer just needs boorish realtor Davis Scott to sell the house so she can put the sordid relationship behind her. When Davis turns up strangled at the festival, Summer's hopes of a quick real estate resolution are dashed. The stakes rise after the sisters are accused of the murder; Hope and Summer prove perceptive amateur sleuths as they set out to prove their innocence. Well-rounded characters and sparkling dialogue keep the plot moving. Fans of paranormal cozies will have fun.
