After enjoying a romantic dinner at Commander's Palace in the Garden District, Carmela and Detective Edgar Babcock are walking to their car when they hear a terrifying scream from nearby. They rush into the adjacent cemetery and discover Isabelle Black, the sister of a friend, draped across a tombstone - strangled with a piece of old lace.
Despite Babcock's warnings to Carmela to stay out of the investigation, she and her sidekick JuJu Voodoo owner Ava Gruiex
embark on their mission to find the killer. Is it the
fiance Edward Baudette, best man Julian Drake, mother-in-law and grumpy
soul Vesper Baudette or former girlfriend Naomi Rattler or is there
something more sinister behind Isabelle's death? What of the piece of
old lace? Is it from Isabelle's veil or from Vesper's antique mourning
costume collection?I always find these mysteries so entertaining, not only for the scrapbooking ideas, but the places these characters go. I thought folks from Charleston had heavily booked social calendars, but nobody beats the people in New Orleans for their ability to party - for what ever the reason.
The first book in this series is Keepsake Crimes.
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