When 28-year-old Agnes Blythe, the contented
bifocals-wearing half of an academic power couple, is jilted
by her professor boyfriend for the town Pilates instructor,
her future is suddenly less than certain. So when her
glamorous, eccentric Great Aunt Effie arrives in town and
offers a job helping to salvage the condemned Stagecoach
Inn, what does Agnes have to lose? But work at the inn has
barely begun when the unlikely duo find the body of
manipulative Kathleen Todd, with whom Agnes and Effie both
have recently had words. Words strong enough to
land them at the top of the suspect list.
The pair
have clearly been framed, but no one else seems interested
in finding the real murderer and Agnes and Effie's sleuthing
expertise is not exactly slick. Nevertheless, they're soon
investigating a suspect list with laundry dirtier than a
middle school soccer team's and navigating threats, car
chases, shotgun blasts, and awkward strolls down memory
lane.
In Bad Housekeeping, the first novel
in the Agnes & Effie cozy mystery series by Maia Chance,
danger mounts, deadlines loom, ancient knob-and-tube wiring
is explored, and the ladies learn a thing or two about the
awful, wonderful mistake that is going back home.
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