Murder in her stocking

Murder in her stocking

G. A. McKevett

eAudio - 2018

Christmas has arrived in sleepy McGill, Georgia, but holiday cheer can't keep temperamental Stella Reid from swinging a rolling pin at anyone who crosses her bad side. This season, there are plenty. First, an anonymous grinch vandalizes a celebrated nativity display. Far worse, the scandalous Prissy Carr is found dead in an alley behind a tavern. With police puzzled over the murder, Stella decides to stir the local gossip pot for clues on the culprit's identity, and it turns out that Prissy held a prominent spot on the naughty list. Soon, suspects are piling up like presents on Christmas morning. Unfortunately, the more progress Stella makes, the more she must confront. With a neighbor in peril and the future of her beloved grandc...hildren at risk, Stella must somehow set everything straight and bring a cunning criminal to justice before December 25th...

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Subjects
Grandmothers > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Georgia > Fiction.
Published
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC 2018.
Language
English
Corporate Author
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Main Author
G. A. McKevett (author)
Corporate Author
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Other Authors
Mil Nicholson (narrator)
Edition
Unabridged
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Physical Description
1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 36 min.)) : digital
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN
9781974917983
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AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Stella Reid, widow and grandmother of seven, takes center stage in this tender spinoff from McKevett's Savannah Reid series (Hide and Sneak, etc.), set in McGill, Ga., in the 1980s. Stella has the misfortune to discover town floozy Prissy Carr dying in a dark alley behind a seedy tavern. The coroner later determines she was strangled. While the gossipy residents of McGill lack sympathy for the victim, who was notorious for seducing several straying husbands, the kindhearted Stella decides to help the handsome Sheriff Manny Gilford find the killer. Stella's oldest and most perceptive grandchild, 12-year-old Savannah Reid, helps uncover important clues. The duo's sleuthing ranges from studying the contents of Prissy's jewelry box, which is filled with gifts from her lovers, to investigating an abandoned farmhouse on Christmas Day. Other story lines, such as Stella's tense relationship with her alcoholic daughter-in-law and mother to her grandchildren, pack an emotional punch and add a poignant layer to this enjoyable cozy. Readers will look forward to Stella's further adventures. Agent: Richard Curtis, Richard Curtis Assoc. (Nov.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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