Lie Like a Rug

by Donna Huston Murray

Ginger Barnes

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While escorting Bryn Derwyn Academy's most infamous student downtown to be scared straight by a federal judge, amateur sleuth Ginger Barnes is shocked to find her childhood babysitter, textile Professor Charlie Finnemeyer, on trial for fraudulently aging an Oriental rug. Even more alarming, two witnesses against him died suspiciously convenient "natural" deaths.Eager to help Charlie's attorney any way she can, Gin pries a tightly held secret from a university president and exposes murder show more motives for a popular TV craft show host, and two antique dealers. Charlie's overprotective wife also has a talent for showing up at the wrong place at the worst possible time. Still, the evidence implicating Charlie can't be swept under a rug. Before Gin can persuade anyone else he's innocent, she must first convince herself.Writer's Digest Award Winning Author show less

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Canonical title
Lie Like a Rug
Original publication date
2001
People/Characters
Ginger Barnes; Rip Barnes; Charlie Finnemeyer; Birdie Finnemeyer; Eric Allen; Ryan Cooperman
Important places
Bryn Derwyn Academy; Main Line, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Pennsylvania, USA
Dedication
To Skip Graffam ...for lots of reasons
First words
Ryan Cooperman was fifteen going on thirty to life, and he was mine for the next couple of hours.

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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English
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Paper, Ebook
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