Really Cute Corpse

Claire Malloy is back. And this time she is the reluctant director of the Miss Thurberfest beauty pagent in Farberville. She's being driven to distraction by the usual baton twirlers, off-key singers, lead-foot dancers and town hysteria, so she's hardly prepared when a sandbag crashes onstage barely missing the queen of the pagent, and a bullet pierces her open convertible. Murder is not far behind--and that starts Claire poking around where somebody doesn't want her to be--until she comes uncomfortably close to joining Farberville's recently deceased chilling out in the town morgue.... "Wonderful." MYSTERY NEWS