women's investment club takes interest in murder in Patricia Sprinkle's thoroughly southern MacLaren Yarbrough mystery'

ISBN 0-451-21450-1  $6.99
Large Print ISBN 1-58724-97105
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#2 on Independent Mystery Bookstores paperback bestsellers list Feb. 2007
Five consecutive weeks
on Barnes & Noble's list of Fifty Bestselling Mysteries!  

The Story
While MacLaren Yarbrough was touring Scotland, her good friend Pooh DuBose died and Mac's husband, Joe Riddley Yarbrough, finagled her an invitation to join the prestigious Magnolia Women's investment Club. This club--which Mac and half the women in Hopemore, GA, call "the moneyed women's investment club"--is made up of the aristocracy of Hopemore. Between them, these women control more money than many countries in the world. 

At her first meeting, Mac finds the outgoing president dead on the ladies' room floor with a silver corkscrew in her throat. When the police chief arrives, he immediately settles on Cindy Yarbrough, Mac's daughter-in-law, as his chief suspect. When Cindy disappears, Mac feels compelled to investigate the crime before her son and daughter-in-law are declared fugitives from the law.

 

Author's comments on this book:

This book contains a cast of characters I greatly enjoyed working with: a former soap opera star, a greedy real estate developer, and a mysterious lawyer who left a great New York career to direct the Poverty Law Center in Hopemore. Besides, Augusta Wainwright is back, and I love Gusta. I even got to put to use some of what I'm learning in my own ladies' investment club--although I keep promising them, none of them are in the book.

 
Please do me a favor: If your public library doesn't have this book, would you ask them to get it for their shelves? An enthusiastic reader is the best endorsement. Thanks!