Murder Runs In The Family
George Annenothing for her only daughter's wedding -- from seventy-five yards of
bridal train to gourmet food for over three hundred guests and enough
glittering elegance to make Mary Alice think about finding herself a
fourth rich husband to pay for it all.
Practical Patricia Anne has
put away her aunt-of-the-bride blue chiffon and settled back into
domesticity when fun-loving Mary Alice calls to say they have a
post-wedding date with a genealogist from the groom's side of the
family. Lunch is a fascinating lesson on the hazards of finding dirty
linens in ancestral boudoirs that ends abruptly when their guest
scurries off with the local judge, leaving the sisters with their mouths
open -- and finishing their luncheon companion's cheesecake -- when the
police arrive.
Their mysterious guest has taken a plunge from
the ninth floor of the courthouse building -- an apparent suicide. But
given the scandals a nosy genealogist might have uncovered, the sisters
are betting that some proud Southern family is making sure their
shameful secrets stay buried. . .along with anyone who tries to dig them
up.