The Fool Dies Last
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Publisher Description
The Bailey sisters may be the only ones able to interpret the meaning behind a bizarre series of murders in the first entry in the hilarious The Fortune Telling Mysteries series.
Sisters Hope and Summer Bailey run Bailey’s Boutique, a mystic shop in Asheville, North Carolina. While Hope’s performing a palm reading a local doctor, Dylan Henshaw, bursts in accusing them of trying to kill his patient with a tincture.
During the confrontation the sisters’ grandmother, Gram, interrupts: one of her friends has died suddenly. It looks like a simple allergic reaction . . . but why is there a solitary Tarot card – the Fool – with the body? When another of Gram’s friends dies in similar circumstances, and in possession of a Fool card, it’s surely no coincidence. What ties the victims together and could Gram be next?
Although Hope is hesitant to read the Tarot again following a recent tragedy, she might be the only one capable of deciphering the clues. Can she overcome her fear and uncover the card’s meaning before the killer strikes again?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sisters Hope and Summer Bailey, the protagonists of this breezy series launch from Miller (the Moonshine mysteries), run Bailey's Boutique, "a small mystic shop that sold crystals, candles, herbs, and the like" in Asheville, N.C. While Hope still reads customers' palms to predict their future, she's abandoned using tarot cards after a traumatic experience that's left unspecified for most of the book. Then Roberta King, a regular boutique patron, dies from anaphylactic shock after being served dinner at the town community center, though she displayed some difficulty breathing before eating it. The police question Hope after noticing the tarot card featuring the Fool, which represents "freedom and new beginnings," sticking out of Roberta's pocketbook. When another woman dies, apparently from a similar cause and is also found with the Fool card on her, both fatalities are treated as homicides, and Hope and Summer turn sleuth. A subplot involving a hunky young doctor provides some romantic heat, though the solution is a bit of a letdown. Fans of Steven Hockensmith's Tarot mystery series may want to check out this cozy.
