Buried in Bargains

Authors: Belle, Josie
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC022040, FIC058000, FIC022070
ISBN: 9781101625644, Related ISBNs: 0425252302, 1101625643, 9780425252307, 9781101625644
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 272,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: By Jenn McKinlay, author of the Library Lover's mysteries and the Cupcake Bakery mysteries, writing as Josie Belle

Maggie Gerber and those discount divas, the Good Buy Girls, are gearing up for their first big holiday thrift shop sale. But one of the Girls—Joanne Claramotta, pregnant with her first child—is acting less than festive. It could be hormones. Or it could be Diane Jenkins, the young knockout her husband, Michael, hired as his new deli assistant.

Calming Joanne’s nerves proves impossible when Maggie finds Michael unconscious on his deli floor—and with Diane next to him, strangled to death with her apron strings. Then Maggie discovers something even more disturbing.

There’s no record of Diane having been hired. In fact, she has no history at all. It’s as if she never even existed. Now Maggie fears that unwrapping Michael’s secrets could really kill her holiday spirit.

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