Pretty is as Pretty Dies
READING AGE 16+
Parke Stockard was certainly sitting pretty. Blessed with good looks and business sense to boot, she should have been content. Instead, Parke makes trouble in her small town. When retired octogenarian schoolteacher Myrtle Clover discovers her body, no one in Bradley is particularly upset. Myrtle decides to show up her police chief son and investigate the crime herself. And, just in time to play detective, she meets a widower newcomer who proves the perfect sidekick.
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FEAR KNOTTED INSIDE her, the color draining from her face as she slowly turned around. Josh stood close behind her, hooded gray eyes revealing nothing. He smiled, but it was a cold smile. He looked pointedly at her bare hands that weren’t holding a column.
“It was kind of odd for you to call me with a lead, Miss Myrtle. E……
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