Gossamer Ghost: A Scrapbooking Mystery

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Marcus Joubert in the shop owner of Oddities, next door to Carmela's Memory Mine. Carmela hears a disturbance and goes in, only to find Marcus dead! In front of Carmela and the police his assistant Mavis Sweet arrives claiming that Napoleon's Death Mask has been stolen from their shop! And then just 4 hours later reports of another stolen death mask (1 of 4 known), this time from a collector in Dallas, hits the police radios. The police suspect Joubert, but Mavis knows he is anything but a thief.

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Childs has a deft and colorful hand.Buried Under Books
EnjoyableLocal color is Childs strong suit, and on this romp with Carmela, the details of the Big Easy, from absinthe to touffe, do not disappoint.Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Laura Childs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Tea Shop Mysteries, Scrapbook Mysteries, and Cackleberry Club Mysteries, and a recent recipient of the Romantic Times Book Review's Award for Best Amateur Sleuth. In her previous life, she was CEO/Creative Director of her own marketing firm and authored several screenplays. She is married to a professor of Chinese art history, loves to travel, and has two Chinese Shar-Pei dogs.