Charlotte
LaRue, owner of New Orleans’ Maid for a Day cleaning service,
is swept into jeopardy when an uninvited guest arrives on her doorstep...As the saying goes, “No good deed goes unpunished.” Charlotte LaRue knows she should take a broom and chase Joyce Thibodeaux off her front porch. Once married to Charlotte’s tenant Louis Thibodeaux, Joyce is fresh out of detox for her alcoholism and has no place to go. She swears she’s clean and sober and will find her own place in a few days. She pulls on Charlotte’s heartstrings...and soon she’s staying in Charlotte’s guest room.
Charlotte
survived Hurricane Katrina, but Joyce proves to be an ill wind of
a different kind. Soon a valuable gold watch left to Charlotte by
her father is missing, and worse, a stranger is watching the house.
Charlotte knows she has to show Joyce the door, but she never gets
the chance. Instead her beloved parakeet Sweety Boy vanishes, her
living room gets trashed, and Joyce ends up in the middle of the
mess...stone cold dead.
Now Charlotte is on the list of murder suspects along with Louis, who’s been out of town on business...or has he? Finding the answers means doing a little snooping herself. Grabbing her mop she’s starting with the hospital where Joyce last stayed: a place with skeletons in its closets and a bucket full of clues that just might lead to a killer...
Watch
for WASH AND DIE, book
seven in Barbara Colley's Charlotte LaRue Mystery Series — coming in
February 2008 from Kensington Books!
