Miss Julia inherits a mess

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Title:

Miss Julia inherits a mess

Author:

Ross, Ann B., author.

Series:

Miss Julia ;

Series Number:

18.

Summary:

When Miss Julia hears that Miss Mattie Freeman has taken a fall and is in the hospital, she wishes she'd spent more time getting to know the woman and not just because she's the last person in town to hear about the accident! So when the tumble proves fatal, the last thing Miss Julia expects is a phone call from Mr. Ernest Sitton, Attorney at Law: Miss Julia is named executor of Mattie Freeman's last will and testament, and it looks like her last wishes are more generous than her coffers are full. Faced with a house full of clutter and with her good friend Mildred Allen on bed rest, Miss Julia enlists an accredited furniture appraiser and Helen Stroud to sort through the mess and find something of value for Miss Mattie's beneficiaries. Thank goodness for Miss Mattie's handsome young neighbor, Nate Wheeler, who's ever ready to help out, and of course for Etta Mae Wiggins, who makes an excellent sidekick. But when a peculiar young man claiming to be Miss Mattie's great-nephew turns up, demanding to live in her apartment while he writes a family history, Miss Julia finds herself closer to Mattie Freeman and her mysterious family than ever before.

General Note:

"New York Times bestselling author of Miss Julia Lays Down the Law"--cover.

Edition:

Large Print edition.

Physical Description:

507 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Genre:

Large type books.

Humorous fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Subject Term:

Springer, Julia (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Executors and administrators -- Fiction.

Family secrets -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning,

Publication Date:

2016

ISBN:

9781410485366

Publication Information:

Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.

Call Number:

LP ROSS

Holds: Copies:

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Summary

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorIn the latest hilarious and bighearted novel in Ann B. Ross's bestselling series, Miss Julia finds herself an executrix on a desperate hunt for a valuable collectible amid a jumble of the estate's antiques, and if she finds a prize she can honor Miss Mattie's last wishes.

Author Notes

Ann B. Ross, who has taught literature at the University of North Carolina, is the author of four novels that include "Miss Julia Speaks Out", one of the most popular Reader's Digest Condensed Books of 1999 & one of Book Sense's Top Ten Recommended Books. She lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

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Publisher's Weekly Review

Cozy fans more interested in character than plot should enjoy Ross's 17th series mystery set in the small North Carolina town of Abbotsville (after 2015's Miss Julia Lays Down the Law). When Mattie Freeman breaks her hip in a fall and goes into the hospital, elderly widow Julia Freeman, who barely knows the woman, is flabbergasted to learn that Mattie, who has no known living relations, has given her power of attorney. And Julia's responsibilities to a relative stranger become even more onerous after Mattie dies of her injuries, having named Julia the executor of her estate. Julia finds that Mattie's bequests exceed the estate's value, and she becomes suspicious when a man calling himself Andrew F. Cobb turns up out of the blue and claims to be Maddie's great-nephew. Ross provides plenty of local color, though some readers may be uncomfortable with the cartoonish portrayal of Julia's servant, Lillian ("Yessum, they's a whole box full in the pantry"). Agent: Deborah Schneider, Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents. (Apr.)? © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.