Better Homes and Corpses

Zusatztext “A delightful sneak peek into life in the Hamptons! with intricate plotting and a likeable! down-to-earth protagonist. A promising start to a promising series.”—Suspense Magazine   “The descriptions of furniture and other antiques! as well as juicy tidbits on the Hamptons! make for entertaining reading for those who enjoy both antiques and lifestyles of the rich and famous.”— Booklist Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Bridge started her writing career working at the Michigan State University News in East Lansing, Michigan. She is the author and photographer of an antique reference guide, Lithographed Paper Toys, Books, and Games , and the author of Revenge of the Sports Widows—How to Cope with a Sports Fanatic . She is a member of Sisters in Crime and has taught creative writing classes at the William Cullen Bryant Library in Roslyn, New York. Kathleen is also an antiques dealer in Long Island, New York, and has contributed to Country Living magazine. Klappentext After Meg Barrett found her fiancé still had designs on his ex-wife, she decided it was time to refurbish her life. Leaving her glamorous job at a top home and garden magazine, she fled Manhattan for Montauk, only to find decorating can sometimes lead to detecting... In between scouring estate sales for her new interior design business, Cottages by the Sea, Meg visits the swanky East Hampton home of her old college roommate, Jillian Spenser. But instead of seeing how the other half lives—she learns how the other half dies. Jillian's mother, known as the Queen Mother of the Hamptons, has been murdered. Someone has staged a coup. When she helps a friend inventory the Spensers' estate for the insurance company, Meg finds herself right in the thick of things. Cataloging valuable antiques and art loses its charm when Meg discovers that the Spenser family has been hiding dangerous secrets, which may have furnished a murderer with a motive. As Meg gets closer to the truth, the killer will do anything to paint her out of the picture... FIRST IN A NEW SERIES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER ONE It seems I’m always at the wrong end of the stick. The pointy end. The one you can’t see until you trip over it and it pokes your eye out, or worse yet, your heart. I got the flat tire at the intersection of Old Montauk Highway and Route 27. Earlier, my spirits had scaled the upper limits of antique-picker heaven. Now I’d be late, and Caroline Spenser would never tolerate lateness. My rescuer came in the form of a PSEG power grid worker in a cable truck. When I offered him my last ten-dollar bill for a job well done, he refused and said, “But I’ll take that woody golf club in the back of your Jeep.” I’d scavenged the club the day before from the front of the demolished Tiki Motel, along with a set of what I prayed were ivory mah-jongg tiles hidden in a moldy suitcase. “Well, if you’re ever on the lookout for any more clubs, give me a call.” I handed him my business card. “‘Meg Barrett, Cottages by the Sea,’” he said, reading the card. “What are you, some kind of home builder?” “No, more like a nest builder. Sorry, I have to run. I’m sooo late.” I glanced at his ring finger. Darn. It would be nice to meet someone with the same collecting bug I had, instead of the cheating jerk I’d been engaged to who hated all things old. The only thing Michael and I had in common was Jeopardy! and an obsession with home décor magazines—he loved minimalist modern and I was more of a vintage upcyled-trash gal. At the sight of the East Hampton windmill, my pulse quickened. Only a few rain-drenched souls trudged along Main Street. It was March, but come June, the beautiful people would descend and the east end of Long Island would morph into the American Riviera, double-cheeked air kisses on every corner and celebrities in every café. <...

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Bridge, Kathleen Bridge Greenstein
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.08.2015
• EAN: 9780425276587
• ISBN: 978-0-425-27658-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 173 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Hamptons Home & Garden Mystery; Hamptons Home & Garden Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense