In the first in Agatha Award-winning author Toni L. P. Kelnerâs smart, witty mystery series, amateur sleuth Laura Fleming finds her trip going Southâin lethal ways...
They say you canât go home again, and Laura Burnette Fleming thinks they may have a point. Moving to Boston has made her a bona fide Yankee in the eyes of her Byerly, North Carolina family. Yet Lauraâforever Laurie Anne to her kinâstill rushes back to see her ailing grandpa.
Paw is in a bad way, rousing just long enough to tell Laura he didnât fallâhe was attackedâbefore passing away. Why would anyone harm the beloved Burnette patriarch? True, the family has its share of issues lately, from Aunt Nellieâs doomed get-rich-quick schemes to Aunt Ednaâs fixation with the local pastor. But surely not even the grasping cousins slyly sizing up Pawâs possessions could commit murder.
With the aid of her Shakespearean scholar husband, Richard, and her indomitable great-aunt Maggie, Laura confronts a slew of family secrets. Turns out Paw may have seen something that a killer is determined to keep quiet. And Laura will have to untangle the truth, before this homecoming leads to another homicide...