Shortly after the birth of her third child, genealogist Torie O'Shea finds herself more than ready to get back to work. So when she's asked to write a biography of the late Catherine Finch, a famed 30s jazz singer who was a resident of the small town of New Kassel, Missouri, where Torie lives and se
Rett MacPherson - Torie O'Shea 04 - A Misty Mourning
β Scribed by MacPherson, Rett
- Book ID
- 109154255
- Publisher
- Minotaur
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 155 KB
- Series
- Torie O'Shea 4
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0312977840
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β¦ Synopsis
A ten-hour car trip with your 80-year-old grandmother is never much fun, especially if you're seven months pregnant. But when Torie O'Shea's longtime family friend Clarissa Hart Campbell insists that she and Grandma Gert come for a visit at her West Virginia boarding house, they just can't say no to the 101-year-old dynamo.
Upon their arrival, Torie and Gert find Clarissa has called together her entire family for the reading of her new will. But everything's happening too fast, even for Clari: the next morning, she's found murdered in bed. The new will stands, and her lawyer follows through on the old woman's wishes to settle an 80-year-old debt to Torie's great-grandmother: The Panther Run Boarding House now belongs to Torie.
Mystified, Torie must put her genealogy skills to work to determine what secrets worth killing for may be hiding in the dilapidated boarding house and the Campbell family storyοΏ½before it's too late.
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