In Gone with the Win, another charming entry in Mary Daheim's beloved Bed-and-Breakfast series, someone from Judith McMonigle Flynn's past comes knocking, and the reluctant amateur sleuth finds herself working a case so cold it's practically frozen.
Ruby Tooms drops her bags and a mystery on the lovely Persian carpet of Hillside Manor, Judith's bed-and-breakfast in Seattle.
Ruby's mother was strangled years before, soon after her divorce from Ruby's father—and the killer is still at large.
Undaunted, Judith agrees to help Ruby. Cousin Renie grudgingly pitches in, and even Judith's husband, Joe, gets involved.
The game's afoot and ahoof with Judith discovering that the hand she's been dealt includes not only a joker but that deadly card, the Ace of Spades. And, she's off...in pursuit of a killer.
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July 9, 2013 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780062089861
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780062089861
- File size: 1301 KB
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- English
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June 10, 2013
Early in Daheim’s sprightly 28th cozy featuring Seattle B and B innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn (after 2012’s The Wurst Is Yet to Come), an old friend of Judith’s, Ruby Tooms, arrives at Hillside Manor. Ruby wants Judith’s husband, retired cop Joe Flynn, to help find the person who murdered her mother, Opal, years earlier, before DNA testing. Judith, whose admirers created a Web site celebrating her detective adventures, has vowed to stay away from criminal investigations in order to concentrate on her family and her business, but she soon becomes involved in the search for Opal’s killer. As usual, Judith’s best friend, Renie Jones, lends a hand. Series fans will relish the author’s trademark humor (e.g., “I hate it when people get mixed up and think the acronym for Female Amateur Sleuth Tracking Offenders isn’t FASTO, but FATSO”). Agent: Maureen Moran, Maureen Moran Agency.
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