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Tragic magic

Title:

Tragic magic

Author:

Childs, Laura, author.

Series:

Scrapbooking mystery ;

Series Number:

Summary:

Scrapbook shop owner Carmela helps her friend renovate an old mansion in New Orleans into a crafty haunted house for tourists, but finds herself investigating a series of murders when her friend's flaming body comes crashing through the window.

General Note:

Reprint. Originally published: 2009.

"Berkley Prime Crime mystery"--Spine.

"Scrapbooking tips and recipes included!"--Cover.

Edition:

Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed.

Physical Description:

302 p. ; 18 cm.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Subject Term:

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Homicide -- Fiction.

Criminal investigation -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Berkley Prime Crime,

Publication Date:

2010

2009

ISBN:

9780425237434

Publication Information:

New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2010, c2009.

Call Number:

CHILDS

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607002580176	Adult Fiction	CHILDS	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

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Summary

A New Orleans mansion is being converted into a haunted house for tourists and scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand has been enlisted to help. No sooner does the project begin than someone winds up dead.

Author Notes

Laura Childs is a pseudonym used by Gerry Schmitt. Before becoming a full-time author, she was a Clio Award-winning advertising writer and CEO of her own marketing firm called Mission Critical Marketing. She writes the Tea Shop Mystery series, the Cackleberry Club Mysteries and the Scrapbook Mystery series.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The murder of jeweler Melody Mayfeldt, an enthusiast of the supernatural, at Medusa Manor, a New Orleans mansion being converted into a haunted house attraction for an upcoming horror convention, drives Childs's contrived seventh scrapbooking cozy (after 2008's Death Swatch). Scrapbooking diva Carmela Bertrand and her French Quarter sidekick, Ava Gruiex, know it wasn't a ghost who killed their friend by a blow to the head and then pushed her flaming corpse out of a third-floor window of the manor. NOPD Det. Edgar Babcock, Carmela's boyfriend, and the Crescent City Nancy Drews investigate various suspects, including Melody's husband, Garth, who co-owned Fire and Ice Jewelers with Melody, and a real estate developer who wanted to buy Medusa Manor. While Child conjures up the abiding charm of New Orleans with her usual flair, besides providing recipes and scrapbooking tips, the rushed resolution disappoints. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved