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Jun 15, 2011 | ISBN 9780307794949 Buy
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Jun 15, 2011 | ISBN 9780307794949
With Mama on the case, murder meets its match….A tryst with a deadly twist.All I’d wanted to do back home in Otis, South Carolina, was whip up a wonderful thirty-fifth anniversary party for my parents. But we’d hardly picked the baker before Mama found herself volunteering her services for the one thing she did nearly as well as cook. And that is sleuthing.You see, Ruby Spikes was found dead in a motor inn with a gun in her hand, a suicide note, and a certified check receipt to a man no one ever heard of–not even the trio of Otis gossips who are Mama’s rock-solid source of information. Neither they nor Mama, despite Ruby’s tormented diary, were convinced she went to her reward willingly. But this was a young woman with an outsize bundle of secrets and enemies. And when Mama starts sorting them out, and sudden death makes a return visit, it looks like she’ll uncover the truth only by making herself–and me–a killer’s next target….
Nora DeLoach was a mystery novelist and social worker. Her novels include Mama Solves a Murder and Mama Traps a Killer. She died in 2001.
"Imagine a charming English mystery set in the South with all African-American characters….Charms with its descriptions of delicious food, realistic family dynamics and smart dialogue."—Publishers Weekly "[Mama] is a delight."—Rendezvous"Grace Covington [has been] dubbed the African-American Miss Marple."—The San Diego Union-Tribune"A sleuth with both compassion and courage."—The Skanner, Portland"[Nora DeLoach] deserves considerable credit for demonstrating that the conventions of the English cozy can be transplanted successfully to the African American South."—Publishers Weekly"You can almost taste the grits and sweet-potato pie when paging through this brisk and entertaining whodunit."–Chicago Tribune"Paints a fine picture of small-town Southern life, and the mystery blends danger and humor."–Romantic Times
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