Lethal in Old Lace: A Consignment Shop Mystery
Cozy Mystery
5th in Series
1st with this publisher.
Crooked Lane Books (March 13, 2018)
Hardcover: 304 pages

Synopsis

Reagan Summerside returns in national bestselling author Duffy Brown’s fifth Consignment Shop mystery, now for the first time in hardcover.

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.

Guest Post

Hi, Reagan Summerside here from the Consignment Shop series here in Savannah.

Guess what, in Lethal In Old Lace I’m getting married! Yes me, bum-magnet Summerside who married Hollis the Horrible is getting married to the delish Walker Boone! How’d I get so lucky?!

It didn’t come easy, I can tell you that. Walker represented my ex in my divorce and pretty much took me to the cleaners in the settlement. But thing changed, our paths kept crossing in trying to find killers. I even helped keep Walker out of jail.

Well, that’s the good news and now there’s the planning part of this wedding that everyone has an opinion about. But even that isn’t so bad when compared to the Abbott sisters, my elderly, totally adorable next-door neighbors getting accused of murder!

“There’s a hand sticking out of the middle of your garden,” Detective Aldeen Ross said in a calm voice as if she’d come across such things every day. And maybe in her line of work she did!

“Hand?” Annie Fritz Abbot gulped. “What hand?”

“That hand,” Aldeen snarled, jabbing a stiff finger at the exposed digits. “The one next to the dog.”

“That there just happens to be a…a new vegetable sister and I put in this year and…”

Annie Fritz’s voice trailed off as Aldeen snagged a hand trowel from the wheelbarrow, opened the squeaky garden gate, gave BW her best I am the police so get lost look then bent down. She dug next to the hand, slowed then stopped. She stared back at Annie Fritz and Elsie both now standing on the stoop looking like death warmed over.

“Is there some reason Bonnie Sue McGrath is planted in your backyard?”

“Fertilizer?” Elsie ventured in a squeaky voice.

See what I mean! Now I’ve got to find the real killer so the sisters can be at my wedding and not just watching it on Instagram! How can I concentrate on finding a killer and plan a wedding too!

So what’s the worse thing you ever saw at a wedding? Cake fall over? Groom not show up? Bride not show up? Preacher not show up? It’s always something when you’re getting married.

Hugs, Reagan Summerside

About the Author

While others girls dreamed of dating Brad Pitt, Duffy Brown longed to take Sherlock Holmes to the prom. Today she conjures up who-done-it stories for Berkley Prime Crime and has two series, the national bestselling Consignment Shop Mysteries set in Savannah and the Cycle Path Mysteries on Mackinac Island.

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