Comedy of Heirs

GENEALOGIST TORIE O'SHEA FINDS THAT HER OWN FAMILY TREE IS ROOTED IN MURDER...The December annual O'Shea family reunion is just kicking off when genealogist and town historian Torie O'Shea discovers a bad apple in her family tree.Someone has sent her several newspaper clippings reporting a fifty-year-old unsolved murder.The dead man is her great-grandfather-shot on his own front porch while his family was trapped inside.Everybody knows great grandpa Keith died in a hunting accident. Or did he? Between fussing over too many house guests, husband, children-and the surprising news she's once again in the "family way"-Torie gets a sneaking suspicion the truth may be as deadly now as it was fifty years ago.Soon she's shaking the family tree, never anticipating the shocking truths ready to drop-along with a motive for murder that could mean it's history for Torie as well.REVIEW: "Torie's large, eccentric family provides plenty of entertaining characters... There's much more than humor at stake in this heartrending tale of family pride and the cover-ups to keep it intact."(Publishers Weekly)REVIEW: "This thoughtful cozy explores an intriguing paradox: close families and small towns can hide big secrets." (Booklist)REVIEW: "A pleasant return to a charming series."(Library Journal)AUTHORBIO: RETT MacPHERSON lives in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri with her husband and three children.This is her third Torie O'Shea mystery.

Rett MacPherson lives in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri with her husband and three children. This is her third Torie O'Shea mystery.