Alanis McLachlan hasnt' spoken to her mother in twenty
years and she has been okay with that so when Alanis gets a
call from an attorney saying that her mother has been
murdered and has left her a store THE WHITE MAGIC FIVE AND
DIME she goes to Arizona to investigate. Alanis's mother
was a con-artist and spent her life taking from others. Now
Alanis discovers she has to clean up the mess her mother
left behind. Alanis wonders if her mother leaving her THE
WHITE MAGIC FIVE AND DIME was her mother's last con and a
way to get revenge upon her daughter.
Upon arriving at the store Alanis meets Clarice a high
school student who has been living with her mother, and
allows her to stay as her tenant until she can find out who
killed her mother. Now Alanis, Clarice, and the local
police detective named Josh Logan try to discover who is
responsible for the murder and who is now threatening
Alanis. While all this is happening Alanis tries to
understand the world of tarot and use it for good instead
of as a con as her mother did.
THE WHITE MAGIC FIVE AND DIME is full of intrigue and keeps
you
guessing who the bad guys are till the end of the book.
Alanis is a great character that keeps you laughing at her
and hoping you could help her discover the truth. There are
twists and turns that keep you turning the page and
enjoying the story. I enjoyed this book and am looking
forward to more from Steven Hockensmith.
Much to Alanis McLachlan’s surprise, her con-woman mother,
Barbra, has left her an inheritance—The White Magic Five &
Dime, a new-age shop in tiny Berdache, Arizona. Reluctantly
traveling to Berdache to claim her new property, Alanis
decides to stay and pick up her estranged mother’s tarot
reading business in an attempt to find out who killed her.
With help from a hunky cop and her mother’s live-in teenage
apprentice, Alanis begins faking her way through bogus tarot
readings in order to win the confidence of her mother’s
clients. But much to her surprise, the more she uses the
tarot deck, the more Alanis begins to find real meaning in
the cards.
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