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    Maid for Murder

    By Barbara Colley

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    New Orleans cleaning impresario and “amateur sleuth Charlotte La Rue will dust her way into readers’ hearts in this auspicious debut of a new cozy series” (Publishers Weekly).
     
    Charlotte La Rue has a nice, quiet life. Business is booming at her housecleaning service, Maid-for-a-Day, and she spends her down time with her parakeet, Sweety Boy, and a good mystery novel. Everything’s perfect. Well, almost everything . . .
     
    Because sometimes cleaning house for her wealthy clientele means dealing with their dirty laundry. And when it comes to the much-talked-about Dubuisson family, there’s been an awful lot of it since Jackson Dubuisson was found murdered in his study. The entire Garden District is abuzz with gossip about the killing—and who might have done it.
     
    Charlotte would rather stay out of it. But when Jackson’s addled mother-in-law unwittingly reveals a closet full of family skeletons, it becomes clear that someone close to Jackson wanted him dead.
     
    Surrounded by suspects and hounded by a tenacious detective, Charlotte wishes she could stick to her own policy of staying out of clients’ personal business. But Charlotte’s never been able to walk away from a mess—and before she’s done, the killer is going to have to come clean . . .
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJan 1, 2003
    ISBN9780758263322
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    Maid for Murder
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    Barbara Colley

    Barbara Colley is an award-winning author whose books have been published in sixteen foreign languages. A native of Louisiana, she lives with her family in a suburb of New Orleans. Besides writing and sharing her stories, she loves strolling through the historical New Orleans French Quarter and Garden District, which inspired the setting for her Charlotte La Rue mystery series, Readers can write to Barbara at P.O. Box 290, Boutte, LA 70039.

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    • 4/5
      Charming cozy about self sufficient woman, Charlotte, who started her own cleaning business in New Orleans and raised her son to be a doctor.
      Marred by two dozen typos seemingly caused by OCR conversion and not caught.
    • 5/5
      I do love when I find a new-to-me series that I love. And this amateur sleuth series definitely fits that bill. I like the stories that take place in New Orleans as they seem to always have that Gothic feel, even this cozy has that tinge of dark edge to it.The main character, Charlotte, is an intelligent person, has her own business, wants grandchildren from her son, ties on her walking shoes each morning before it gets too hot for her 30 minute walk....and she wants to find out who killed the husband of one of her clients. This part of an amateur sleuth book can come off as forced at times, but this one didn't at all. She wants to help her client and friend by using the information she knows from the behind the scenes look she gets as a housecleaner for the rich. Information that the police can't discover, but she can to hopefully solve the mystery.The edge of Gothic is in all of the excellently surprising dark twists that occur as the book continues. Shivery good all the way to the end. I cannot wait to read the rest of the series. Five shivery Gothic beans......