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There's no fun in dysfunctional

Stain-busting Mystery
Avon
February 2006
Featuring: Josie Toadfern
272 pages
ISBN: 0060793244
Paperback
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Small-town laundress Josie Toadfern has her own fair share
of dirty laundry -- namely the Toadfern clan! Ostracized
from the family unit ever since her parents dumped
eight-year-old Josie in a local orphanage, the stain-busting
dynamo's stunned to find herself invited to crabby old
family matriarch "Mamaw" Toadfern's Thanksgiving celebration
-- and too curious to refuse.

But an even bigger shock is waiting for her there: Josie's
long lost mom and pop, blandly unapologetic and full of new
-- probably illegal -- get-rich-quick schemes. And when a
dead body is tossed into the already explosive chaos of
bitter feelings, intra-family feuding, and incinerated
turkey meat, Josie finds herself in the most uncomfortable
position of having to prove her disreputable dad innocent of
murder. But cleaning up messes is Josie's business. And
sometimes blood is thicker than cranberry sauce -- and a
much more difficult stain to eliminate.