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Heard it Through the Grapevine

by Lizbeth Lipperman

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Series: Garcia Girls Mysteries (1)

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Sisters Tessa and Lainey Garcia weren??t on speaking terms. But now that Tessa??s dead, her wisecracking ghost is making up for lost time.

Lainey Garcia left Texas nine years ago after her sister Tessa married the only man Lainey ever loved. So when Tessa??s house explodes, the last thing anyone expects is for her to appear to Lainey . . . as a ghost.

Formerly a part owner of the biggest vineyard in the region, Tessa??s got the goods on every fake, floozy, and two-faced liar in town. But Tessa doesn??t know who killed her, and she asks the remaining Garcia girls to uncover the truth. Setting out to fulfill their sassy sibling??s wish from beyond the grave, the sisters discover a mile-wide list of suspects who wanted Tessa dead. Learning the hard way that killers don??t like snoops, Lainey fears she??ll be the next Garcia sent to the big vineyard in the sky. 

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??[A] promising first.???Publishers Weekly

"Lipperman delivers a satisfying paranormal, not-quite-cozy mystery with plenty of bodies, an abundance of plot twists, and a little humor courtesy of the otherworldly Tessa." ??Booklist Online

??Entertaining, wickedly hilarious, and thoroughly addictive . . . a spectacular reading experience.???Diane Morasco, Seattle Post-Inte… (more)

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Heard it Through the Grapevine (A Dead Sister Talking Mystery) is a cozy mystery. Their is some love scenes and sex talk with different characters in the story. One character is even a porn star.

I enjoyed reading Heard it Through the Grapevine. Elaina comes home for her sister's funeral. Never mind that they have a feud and have not spoken for years.
Lainey has not been home for years. She sees her other sisters and talks with them. Did not even tell her boss/boyfriend that she even had another sister named Tessa.

When Lainey sees her sister in the casket she screams because her sister is also standing by the casket. No one else can see or hear her. Her three other sisters thinks she broken down because she and her sister never made their fight over.

It takes a lot of talking with Tessa's ghost giving a lot of private information that the sisters kept secret from each other. Then started to believe Lainey was really seeing Tessa. Tessa asks them to solve her murder. She has no idea who would kill her.
She leaves most of belongings to her daughter and Lainey. Tessa owned a half of a winery.

Tessa slept with lots of guys. She had two ex-husbands. One little girl that lived with her father Colt the Sheriff of Vineyard, Texas.
Lainey had loved Colt since she was 15 years old and Tessa marrying him was what their feud about. Colt only thought of her as Tessa's little sister.

While Lainey and her sisters try and find out who had motives people keep ending up dead or threatened.
Colt keeps warning them off the investigation but Lainey does not listen to him. Lainey ends up staying on his ranch in the guest house after the hotel turns out dangerous.

They have to get around the knowledge that Tessa tells them about her last day and information they should not have.

Tessa is a wise cracking ghost and makes Lainey laugh at the wrong times. Their is a lot about Tessa's character that I don't like. But their are a lot of different characters who have reasons to kill her.
I would read another book from Lizbeth in the future. I can see some more books in Dead sister talking.
I was given this ebook and asked to give honest review of it when done by Netgalley.
05/08/2013 PUB Midnight Ink Books 336 pages ISBN-10: 0738736023 ( )
  rhonda1111 | May 7, 2013 |
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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:

Sisters Tessa and Lainey Garcia weren??t on speaking terms. But now that Tessa??s dead, her wisecracking ghost is making up for lost time.

Lainey Garcia left Texas nine years ago after her sister Tessa married the only man Lainey ever loved. So when Tessa??s house explodes, the last thing anyone expects is for her to appear to Lainey . . . as a ghost.

Formerly a part owner of the biggest vineyard in the region, Tessa??s got the goods on every fake, floozy, and two-faced liar in town. But Tessa doesn??t know who killed her, and she asks the remaining Garcia girls to uncover the truth. Setting out to fulfill their sassy sibling??s wish from beyond the grave, the sisters discover a mile-wide list of suspects who wanted Tessa dead. Learning the hard way that killers don??t like snoops, Lainey fears she??ll be the next Garcia sent to the big vineyard in the sky. 

Praise:
??[A] promising first.???Publishers Weekly

"Lipperman delivers a satisfying paranormal, not-quite-cozy mystery with plenty of bodies, an abundance of plot twists, and a little humor courtesy of the otherworldly Tessa." ??Booklist Online

??Entertaining, wickedly hilarious, and thoroughly addictive . . . a spectacular reading experience.???Diane Morasco, Seattle Post-Inte

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