A Case of Imagination: A Madeline Maclin Mystery

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Praise for A Case of Imagination... "Beauty pageant tomfoolery and psychic shenanigans add comic zest to Tesh's cozy debut." -Publishers Weekly On this nice July morning in Parkland, North Carolina, the office of Madeline Maclin Investigations might as well be an Egyptian tomb: hot, dusty, and dead. It doesn't help that her landlord Reid Kent,

Jane Tesh is a retired media specialist and pianist for the Andy Griffith Playhouse in Mt. Airy, North Carolina. She is the author of the popular Madeline Maclin Mysteries and the Grace Street Mysteries.

Beauty pageant tomfoolery and psychic shenanigans add comic zest to Tesh's cozy debut. Madeline Mac Maclin, the former Miss Parkland of Parkland, N.C., is a struggling PI and a young divorce in hot pursuit of clients and even hotter pursuit of romance with Jerry Fairweather. When Jerry asks Mac to check out his new inheritance, a spooky old house in the nearby town of Celosia, she jumps at the chance. Soon Mac finds herself investigating the murder of a contestant at the local beauty pageant as well as the haunting of a famous romance author's neurotic husband, though her slapdash sleuthing is more reminiscent of Nancy Drew than, say, Kay Scarpetta. While Jerry renovates his new digs, he contemplates launching a haunted B and B with Olivia Decker, Mac's main rival for Jerry's affections. At times Tesh writes as if she doesn't know where she wants to go - zany, romantic, serious? - but hopefully she'll develop a more consistent tone as she hones her craft in later entries in the series. (Feb.) --Publisher's Weekly