Death Tidies Up (Charlotte LaRue Mystery Series, Book 2) - Hardcover

Colley, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1575668750 ISBN 13: 9781575668758

Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp, 2003

Synopsis

Occasional sleuth and owner of Maid-for-a-Day, Charlotte LaRue finds herself immersed in a dangerous murder mystery when the dead body of Drew Bergeron--a man who was supposed to have died years ago--turns up in the dilapidated mansion she is cleaning, bringing age-old secrets and deadly rivalries to the surface. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

After Colley's strong series debut, Maid for Murder (2002), featuring house-cleaning sleuth Charlotte La Rue, the author stumbles in her second outing, set in New Orleans' Garden District. A scantily clad corpse found in a closet turns out to be real-estate baron Drew Bergeron, whose funeral Charlotte attended two years earlier. This tale of blackmail, fraud and injustice offers little investigation, most of the "evidence" deriving from hindsight and gossip ... la Miss Marple but without Christie's insight into human nature. Charlotte's circular musings and personal affairs serve to pad the story rather than add substance to the plot or depth to the supporting characters. Readers tired of the Big Easy as a locale of grim police procedurals, though, may welcome this cozy approach.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1575668750
• ISBN 13: 9781575668758
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204