Gossamer Ghost

Zusatztext Praise for the Scrapbooking Mysteries: “Brilliant…From the lively imagination of Laura Childs.”— St. Paul Pioneer Press “Scrapbook aficionados rejoice! Ms. Childs creates a charming mystery series with lively! quirky characters and plenty of how-to...Serving up some hors d’oeuvres of murder and mystery! creativity and fashion! she has a winning formula to get even the laziest of us in a scrapbooking mood.”— Fresh Fiction “Delves deeply into the Big Easy’s food! culture! and fashion scene.”— Kirkus Reviews “Cleverly designed…Getting to the climax is fun! as Laura Childs is a superb cozy storyteller with this series and her Tea Shop Mysteries.”— Gumshoe Review “Fast-paced with plenty of action…Terrific.”— Midwest Book Review “Sure to please cozy fans.”— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Laura Childs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Tea Shop Mysteries! the Scrapbooking Mysteries! and the Cackleberry Club Mysteries. She is a consummate tea drinker! scrapbooker! and dog lover! and travels frequently to China and Japan with Dr. Bob! her professor husband. In her past life she was a Clio Award–winning advertising writer and CEO of her own marketing firm. Klappentext Carmela Bertrand knows that Halloween in New Orleans means a week of rabble-rousing! costumed craziness—and she can't wait to get the party started. But when a local antiques dealer turns up dead! Carmela suddenly finds herself in a real-life danse macabre... An evening's work deciding on the class schedule for her scrapbooking shop has put Carmela in the mood to kick up her heels. But after some strange noises draw her into Oddities! the neighboring antiques shop! Carmela's night is abruptly put on hold when a bloody body falls out of a curio cabinet—and into her arms. While shop owner Marcus Joubert was known for being an eccentric with a penchant for eclectic merchandise! Carmela never thought he was the kind of man who could inspire the passion required to kill. But when Marcus's assistant—and fiancée—Mavis reveals that a priceless death mask was also stolen! it becomes clear that murder wasn't the culprit's sole intention. Carmela can't resist the urge to investigate the growing mystery! but as the list of suspects increases! she realizes it'll take every trick in the book to unmask the killer thief before there's another night of murderous mischief... Acknowledgments IT was Halloween again in New Orleans. A week-long, rabble-rousing celebration that just seemed to get bigger, badder, and crazier every dang year. A time for would-be werewolves, witches, fairy princesses, goblins, Venetian lords and ladies, and zombies to dust off their costumes, throw on a wig, howl at the moon, and paint the town the bright red color of fake vampire blood. Carmela Bertrand, the owner of Memory Mine Scrapbook Shop in the French Quarter, was no exception. This year she was debating the merits of wearing a medieval lady’s costume for the week leading up to Halloween, a Scarlett O’Hara dress for her friend Baby Fontaine’s annual masquerade ball, and a sexy witch dress for the ultra-fancy Pumpkins and Bumpkins Ball. After all, what’s a girl to do when she has dozens of party invitations and is dating one of the hottest police detectives in the Big Easy? Well, for one thing, it wasn’t so easy. Right now, late Friday afternoon, with streetlamps just beginning to glow in the darkening purple haze of a French Quarter evening, Carmela was still hunched at her computer trying to figure out which classes to post on her Facebook page. She’d already offered several Paper Moon classes that had proven to be wildly popular. But now she was racking her brain for something different, a couple of fun crafty sessions that would tickle her customers’ fancies...

Product details

• Authors: Laura Childs
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2014
• EAN: 9780425266663
• ISBN: 978-0-425-26666-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 28 mm