**A humorous southern mystery** **WINNER of the 2012 Write Touch Readers' Award for Mainstream with Romantic Elements** --- For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. She's had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someon
Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes
โ Scribed by Swank, Denise Grover
- Book ID
- 109286347
- Publisher
- DGS
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 198 KB
- Series
- Rose Gardner 1
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
First book in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Rose Gardner Mystery series.For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. Sheโs had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someoneโs toiletโs overflowed, but sheโs never seen one of herself before. When her overbearing momma winds up murdered on her sofa instead, two things are certain: There isn't enough hydrogen peroxide in the state of Arkansas to get that stain out, and Rose is the prime suspect.Rose realizes sheโs wasted twenty-four years of living and makes a list on the back of a Wal-Mart receipt: twenty-eight things she wants to accomplish before her vision comes true. Sheโs well on her way with the help of her next door neighbor Joe, who has no trouble teaching Rose the rules of drinking, but wonโt help with number fifteen-- do more with a man. Joeโs new to town, but it doesnโt take a vision for Rose to realize heโs got plenty secrets of his own. Somebody thinks Rose has something they want and theyโll do anything to get it. Her house is broken into, someone else she knows is murdered, and suddenly, dying a virgin in the Fenton County jail isnโt her biggest worry after all.
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"Readers will enjoy this lighthearted romantic suspense novel with a dash of comedy. The characters are memorable, the pace is fast and the dialogue is witty." RT Book Reviews * * * When Rose reports for Fenton County jury duty she figures sheโs lucky to get out of a morning working at the DMV.
When Rose reports for Fenton County jury duty she figures sheโs lucky to get out of a morning working at the DMV. Instead, despite a disastrous encounter with the new assistant district attorney, Mason Deveraux, sheโs picked as a juror on a murder case. As the trial progresses, she realizes an omino