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Closer Than the Bones by Dean James

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Also by Dean James:

Murder Past Due, August 2010
Paperback / e-Book
Baked to Death, April 2005
Hardcover
Death by Dissertation, May 2004
Paperback (reprint)
Decorated to Death, April 2004
Hardcover
Faked to Death, March 2004
Paperback (reprint)
Posted to Death, March 2003
Paperback (reprint)
Closer Than the Bones, May 2001
Paperback (reprint)
Cruel as the Grave, May 2000
Trade Size (reprint)

CLOSER THAN THE BONES
By: Dean James

A Southern Mystery
Silver Dagger
May 2001
Featuring: Ernestine Carpenter
202 pages
ISBN: 1570721831
Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery | Mystery Amateur Sleuth

Retired schoolteacher Ernestine Carpenter is invited by Mary Tucker McElroy, a patron of the arts, to investigate the supposed suicide-by-drowning of one of her proteges.