Going home again is never easy—especially when a quirky,
high-maintenance Shih Tzu is your most intimate companion—
but Brandy Borne is determined to make a new start in her
quaint hometown on the banks of the Mississippi. Bruised
but not broken, she moves back in with her larger-than-
life mother, eccentric Vivian Borne— amateur actress,
loyal Red Hat, and world-class gossip—and prepares to get
along with her social-climbing older sister, Peggy Sue.
Brandy arrives to find small-town Serenity anything but
serene. It seems Clint Carson, an unscrupulous antiques
dealer, has swindled Vivian out of the family’s heirlooms.
But when Brandy impulsively confronts him, her outburst
amounts to about as much as what Carson paid for the Borne
antiques. And when Carson is found run over in a country
lane near his farmhouse, Brandy has made herself Murder
Suspect Number One—with her mother coming in a very close
second.
The number of other suspects in Carson’s hit-and-run ruin
is impressive—his business seems to have been based
primarily on bilking seniors out of their heirlooms. When
Brandy and her mother begin poking, an avalanche of
warnings follows—from the mysterious, charismatic chief of
police, from a handsome young cop who once busted Brandy
for speeding…even from Brandy’s childhood friend turned
grown-up wild child. Tracking down clues proves even more
challenging than sorting trash from treasure at the local
garage sales, and when the Borne “girls” uncover a few
very unsavory Serenity secrets, they become targets for a
murderer whose favorite hobby seems to be collecting
victims.
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