Murder Sends a Postcard
It’s the height of summer tourist season and Glory Martine is busier than ever running her souvenir shop, Southern Treasures. The shop’s parrot, Bluebeard, is becoming quite the celebrity among touristslittle do they realize he’s the bird-host to a ghost
Residents of Keyhole Bay, Florida,...
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It’s the height of summer tourist season and Glory Martine is busier than ever running her souvenir shop, Southern Treasures. The shop’s parrot, Bluebeard, is becoming quite the celebrity among touristslittle do they realize he’s the bird-host to a ghost
Residents of Keyhole Bay, Florida, are dismayed when Bridget McKenna, an auditor in chic attire, arrives to assess the local bank’s shady dealings. Curious about the new arrival, Glory brings dinner to Bridget at her temporary residencethe notorious Bayvue Estates, a halted development complex with no view and no estates just a couple of hastily-completed model homes . Bridget’s assignment is to figure out where all the money went. But someone wants to keep her in the dark permanently. When Glory finds out her new friend won’t be leaving town alive, she knows she and Bluebeard will have to catch a killer and unravel a financial scandal before it leads to more murderous mayhem
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780425252291 (0425252299)
Publish date: January 7th 2014
Publisher: Berkley
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Series: A Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery (#3)
This is the 3rd Meh book in an enjoyable, but Meh series. There was a little more development in that you actually get to meet the victim before turning up dead, but again, the suspects are not well defined. There was also very little sleuthing done; instead, Glory again stumbles in on the bad guy...
I really enjoy this series. Glory is a believable character who has become a bit stronger with each new book. Her relationship with Jake is starting to go somewhere and Bluebeard is becoming a bit more prominent, too. The "bad guy" did seem to come from out of nowhere, but things ended up being p...
I'm vacillating between 3.5 and 4 stars on this book. Glory owns a vintage/souvenir shop in a North Florida beach town, left to her by her uncle. The shop comes with a cantankerous parrot named Blackbeard, who is sometimes the embodiment of her uncle's ghost, and if the author let him, he'd steal...