Paging the Dead
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- USD 7.99
Descripción editorial
Piecing together the evidence . . .
Genealogist Sophreena McClure is an expert at unearthing other people’s secrets. Using old documents and photographs, Soph and her business partner, Esme Sabatier—also a gifted medium—trace family histories and create heritage scrapbooks. Their latest client, Dorothy Pritchett Porter, is thrilled with their research into Morningside’s most prestigious clan. But before Dorothy can proudly display her new scrapbooks on Founders’ Day, she’s found murdered. It seems the ties that bind can also strangle, for Dorothy has been killed using the Pritchett family pearls.
Pegged as prime suspects, Sophreena and Esme turn their investigative skills from the dearly departed to the alive and dangerous, hoping to pin down the real killer among Dorothy’s kinfolk. Sophreena’s scrapbooking club members, crafty in more ways than one, pitch in to help. As the Pritchett ancestral roots turn out to be more tangled than anyone suspected, Sophreena wonders just how many skeletons lurk in this family closet—and whether she and Esme are destined to join them. . . .
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Genealogists Sophreena McClure and Esme Sabatier make their debut in this innocuous first in a new cozy series from Bonner (Echoes from the Past and five other novels as Ellen Harris). The Morningside Village, N.C., duo make an odd pair; Sophie, who is part Asian, barely reaches five feet, while Esme, a Creole with an uncertain gift as a spiritual medium, towers at six foot two. When client Dorothy Pritchett Porter, whose family tree they're researching, is discovered slain and a valuable family ring goes missing, the pair suffer from both police suspicion and town rumors. Thankfully, there are plenty of other suspects, since Dorothy, one of the town's movers and shakers, had offended plenty of people, including some of her relatives. Bonner adds a nice mix of genealogical scrapbooking info and mild romantic entanglements, but telegraphs too many clues that weaken the mystery.