Paint the Town Dead

Zusatztext Praise for the Silver Six Crafting Mysteries “A fun new series with a comfy! small-town vibe and lots of heart...The Silver Six truly sparkle!”—Ali Brandon!  New York Times  bestselling author of the Black Cat Bookshop Mysteries “[A] winner from the first page until the last!”—Jennie Bentley!  New York Times  bestselling author of the Do-It-Yourself Mysteries “A delightful and tasty mystery full of intrigue and twists.”—Linda O. Johnston! author of the Barkery & Biscuits Mysteries “Ms. Haddock! a masterful writer! obviously has humor running through her DNA and mystery deep within her bones...I’m looking forward to many more Silver Six books.”—L.A. Sartor! author of  Viking Gold  “A great small town! filled with eclectic citizens! an intelligent main character! family fun! [and] wonderful writing.”—Open Book Society Informationen zum Autor Nancy Haddock Klappentext From the national bestselling author of A Crime of Poison comes the second mystery starring the crafty and cantankerous Silver Six. Leslee Stanton Nix-aka "Nixy"-thought moving to small-town Lilyvale! Arkansas! would be about as thrilling as watching paint dry. But keeping up with her retired Aunt Sherry and her troublemaking housemates-collectively known as the Silver Six-has proven to be as exciting as it is exasperating. To kick off the grand opening of their craft shop! the Handcraft Emporium! Nixy and the Silver Six invite Doralee Gordon to teach a gourd painting class. Doralee's spirit gets squashed when her ex-husband crashes the class with his new fiancée! but things really get messy when the bride-to-be later turns up dead. Now it's up to Nixy and the Silver Six to use their melons to find the killer-before someone else gets painted out of the picture... Chapter One "Nixy! Nixy, child, we're waiting for you." "On my way," I yelled down the stairs from my apartment. I paused long enough to eye myself in the large oval mirror in the small entryway. Yep, I'd applied mascara to both sets of lashes. That should've been a given, but I'd been known to miss a set. Especially since I'd gone makeup-free for the past month. No point in primping when I'd spent my waking hours sanding, staining, and sealing nearly every surface of this old building. I'd even learned to wield a power sprayer to paint the twelve-foot-high walls and ceilings, and exposed ductwork. We'd installed three new fire-rated entry-exit doors, two roll-up service doors, and security cameras and alarms. We'd also made improvements to the kitchenette and bathroom in back of the store proper. Now the place shone, and we were ready for our grand opening. By the way, I'm Leslee Stanton Nix, known to pretty much everyone as Nixy. The "we" who were waiting for me were my Aunt Sherry Mae Stanton Cutler and her five housemates, collectively known as the Silver Six. They lived together in Sherry's farmhouse and were closer than blood family. The Six were in their late sixties and early seventies, but they'd worked every bit as hard and long as I had to renovate the twenty-seven-hundred-square-foot building that housed my apartment, the storefront, and the workroom. They were every bit as invested in the success of our new folk art and crafts gallery as I was. Oops. Not a gallery. The Six thought "gallery" sounded too highfalutin, aka expensive, for Lilyvale. We'd settled on naming our enterprise The Handcraft Emporium. "Nixy! Doralee will be here in twenty minutes!" "Coming!" I clambered down the interior staircase leading to the building's back room. This space was as wide as a three-car garage, though not as deep, and it served as Fix-It Fred's workshop. However, we'd decided to use it as an arts and crafts classroom as needed. This evening it was needed for our Gorgeous Gourds class. Fred scowled at me. "You know you s...

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Haddock
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780425275733
• ISBN: 978-0-425-27573-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 170 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Silver Six Mystery; A Silver Six Mystery; A Silver Six Mystery; Silver Six Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense