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A Cantankerous Biddy...Newly engaged to her devoted boyfriend, Luke, and in the midst of wedding plans, Tess Darcy, owner and operator of the charming Iris House B & B, manages to vounteer some spare time at the senior center, but her goodwill is challenged by petty, mean-spirited Edwina Riley, an elderly tyrant. With her sharp tongue, bullying manner and nasty temperament, Edwina harasses people into meeting her demands. And if they refuse, there's the devil to pay.Becomes and Inconvenient show more BodyBut it is Edwina's time to pay, when she unwittingly makes her final appearance a the quilting circle and then dies before Tess's eyes. As expected, no one is sorry about the despot's demise. But murder "is" murder, and as Tess begins investigating Edwina's family and long list of enemies, she discovers some startling secrets about some not-so-innocent seniors and the bizarre company they keep. Now she'll have to connect motive to murder--and learn who wanted to end the strife of Riley. show lessTags
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Jean Hager has written numerous novels, many under the pseudonyms Marlaine Kyle, Amanda McAllister, Sara North and Jeanne Stephens. Hager, who is one-eighth Cherokee and often explores Native American themes in her work. She received the Teepee Trophy award from the Oklahoma Writers Federation for best novel of 1977 for Terror in the Sunlight, and show more best novel of 1979 for Shadow of the Tamaracks. Her other books include A Suitable Marriage (1982), Seven Black Stones (1995), and Masked Dancers (1998). Jean Hager was born in 1932 in Maywood, Illinois. She married Kenneth C. Hager in 1950, and graduated from Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma in 1969. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Sew Deadly
- Original publication date
- 1998
- People/Characters
- Tess Darcy; Edwina Riley
- Important places
- Missouri, USA
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 1
