Killer in Crinolines (A Consignment Shop Mystery) - Softcover

Brown, Duffy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425252159 ISBN 13: 9780425252154

Publisher: Berkley, 2013

Synopsis

It’s August in Savannah, Georgia—hardly the season for a traditional Southern wedding with hoopskirts and crinolines. One could die from the heat—or from a cake knife in the back...

Reagan Summerside should be devoting all her energy to her consignment shop the Prissy Fox. But when her dear friend Chantilly Parker is arrested for murder, Reagan vows to clear her name. The victim is Simon Ambrose, who’s found lying in his own wedding cake with a knife in his back.

Chantilly has motive (Simon broke her heart to marry wealthy Waynetta Waverly) and opportunity (crashing the wedding in her UPS delivery truck). And she has cake on her face, and the stolen bridesmaid dress the killer wore is in her truck. But Chantilly would never wear crinoline to kill a man!

With the help of her flamboyant auntie, KiKi, and vexing but attractive attorney Walker Boone, Reagan is determined to save her friend—before she’s forced to turn in her brown uniform for an orange jumpsuit…

About this title

About the Author

Duffy Brown loves anything with a mystery. While other girls dreamed of dating Brad Pitt, Duffy longed to take Sherlock Holmes to the prom. She has two cats, Spooky and Dr. Watson, and works at a consignment shop when she’s not busy conjuring up whodunit stories.

From the Back Cover

I entered the dining room, quite and still Doreen-the-wedding-planner lay in a crumpled heap on the floor.
"Oh dear Lord!" I starting for Doreen but then stopped in my tracks because Simon was there too face down in the five-tiered wedding cake with a silver cake knife sticking out of his back.
The dining room door opened behind me, letting in the first strands of Pachelbel, and Auntie KiKi.
"Reagan, thank heavens I found you," KiKi huffed, her dress swishing softly across the ivory carpet as she came my way. "I still can't find Simon or Waynetta anywhere and what in the world are you and Doreen-the-wedding-planner doing down there on the floor like that and-- Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Lord have mercy and saints preserve us!"
I figured the last part enlisting the powers above meant Auntie KiKi had found Simon after all.

From the Inside Flap

When Reagan Summerside finds a groom face-down in five-tiers of icing and fondant, a cake knife in his back and her good friend and local UPS driver accused of the murder she must find the real killer without winding up in the local swamp as alligator meat. Will Walker Boone, pain-in-the ass attorney and once-upon-a-time gang member, help her out or will he feed her to the alligators himself?

Edition details

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0425252159
• ISBN 13: 9780425252154
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320