POSTCARDS FROM THE DEAD by Laura Childs

It's Mardi Gras time in New Orleans, and if you're Carmela Bertrand that means beads, fun, food, and usually, a murder or two!

Carmela Bertrand, owner of Memory Mine Scrapbooking, is patiently waiting her turn in the camera spotlight to give a little color to the Mardi Gras parade coverage when something goes terrible wrong. KBEZ-TV reporter Kimber Breeze is conducting interviews on the fourth floor balcony of a hotel in the French Quarter, and just as she's about to be interviewed, Carmela sees Kimber's terrified face in the waiting room's live feed monitor. When she rushes out onto the tiny balcony, Carmela finds Kimber's lifeless body dangling by a cord over the floats below.

Although her boyfriend, Homicide Detective Edgar Babcock, tells her not to get involved, Carmela, as usual, can't help herself. When she begins receiving unnerving postcards apparently from the dead reporter, Carmela enlists the help of her best friend Ava Gruiex to uncover the truth.As Carmela and Ava search for the killer, they weave in and out and through New Orleans, its culture and its landscape only to find themselves right in the big middle of trouble themselves as they ferret out who the real killer is.

As usual, Laura Childs delivers a fun and fast moving mystery featuring the smart Carmela Bertrand and her sassy friend Ava as they solve yet another puzzling mystery in the 10th installment of the Scrapbooking Mysteries, POSTCARDS FROM THE DEAD. I adore Laura Childs' books and find that each one gets better and better! Her Scrapbooking Mystery series is delightful, her Tea Shop Mysteries are deliciously fun, and her Cackleberry tales are a hoot! Any book with Laura's name of it is one that is guaranteed to please!

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SUMMARY

New Orleans is in the throes of another fantastic
Mardi
Gras celebration when the party gets crashed by a
murderer.
Now a scrapbooking sleuth is going to have to stop the
partying to catch the killer… There’s a
parade
rolling through the historic French Quarter, with
gigantic
floats, silver beads, and dizzying lights—and Kimber
Breeze
of KBEZ-TV is broadcasting live from a small balcony on
the
fourth floor of the Hotel Tremain, interviewing locals
and
capturing the spectacle down below. Her next subject will
be
Carmela Bertrand, owner of Memory Mine scrapbooking shop.
Carmela has never been a fan of Kimber, but she isn’t
about
to turn down the chance of good publicity for her shop.
But before Carmela’s shop gets its five minutes
of
fame, a killer slips onto the balcony and strangles
Kimber
with a cord, leaving her body dangling above the parade.
Carmela is horrified, but she quickly discovers the
nightmare isn’t over. Because someone is now leaving
strange
postcards at Carmela’s shop—signed by the dead Kimber.
Now
Carmela and her friend Ava will have to risk their own
necks
to find out who’s posing as a ghost—and to expose a
killer…
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