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When a friend’s fiancé meets a grisly end, New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand is left with more than a broken heart. Asked by the devastated bride to investigate, Carmela combines her knack for tiling and design with a sharp sleuthing instinct. As she pieces together photographs, receipts, and scrapbook pages, she uncovers secrets that threaten to unravel the lot of those who wanted love and death interlaced. With every clue stitched into her story, Carmela must navigate layers of deception and protect the wedding she can no longer celebrate as it spirals toward another lethal loose end.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Cozy Mystery
Authors: Laura Childs
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