Lethal Bayou Beauty by Jana DeLeon EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Jana DeLeon
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- Genre: Cozy Mystery
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I was right in the middle of a dream where I was Lara Croft, but not as
girlie, when my cell phone rang. I sprang out of bed, grabbed my nine, and
hit the floor in a firing stance, facing the bedroom door. Then I remembered
I was hiding out in Sinful, Louisiana, and not on a CIA mission in the
Middle East. I lay my nine back on the nightstand and reached for my cell
phone.
Seven a.m.
I looked down at the display and saw it was Gertie, one of the seemingly
quiet and unassuming seniors I’d met the day I arrived in the tiny bayou
town. I’d thought when I came to Louisiana to hide from the arms dealer
who had placed a price on my head that my biggest fear was being bored to
death. Instead, the merry seniors and I had been chased by police, been
stalked by a killer, killed the stalker, and solved a five-year-old murder.
And I’d only been in town five days.
“We have an emergency,” Gertie said as soon as I answered. “Ida Belle
and I are on our way over.”
She disconnected the call before I could ask for any details, and I rushed
into the bathroom to wash my face and throw on clothes. As I pulled on
jeans and a T-shirt, I hoped nothing had happened to implicate Marie in her
husband’s murder. I’d thought she was safe after everything that had gone
down the day before, but things in Sinful, Louisiana, had a way of shifting
beneath you.
I ran downstairs at the same time Gertie’s ancient Cadillac pulled up in
my driveway. I unlocked and opened the door, then hurried into the kitchen
to put on coffee. Conversations with Gertie and Ida Belle weren’t good
without something to drink. Given the strain in Gertie’s voice, I thought
whiskey might be a better option, but as it was only seven a.m. it was
probably too early for good manners to take me straight to the bottle.
But I could always play that one by ear.
Ida Belle, the leader of the Sinful Ladies Society—a group referred to by
Sinful citizens as The Geritol Mafia—was the first to enter the kitchen, and
she did not look happy. But then, if I’d had that mass of rollers in my hair
and had been prompted out of my house in my bathrobe, I probably
wouldn’t have looked happy either. Gertie trailed behind, her expression one
of exasperation and worry.
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