Digging Up the Dirt

Description

An'gel and Dickce Ducote, busy with plans for the Athena Garden Club's spring tour of grand old homes, are having trouble getting the other club members to help. The rest of the group is all a-flutter now that dashing and still-eligible Hadley Partridge is back to restore his family mansion. But the idle chatter soon turns deadly serious when a body turns up on the Partridge estate after a storm . . . The New York Times bestselling author of the Cat in the Stacks mysteriesis back with more of those sleuthing Southern belles, the Ducote sisters... An'gel and Dickce Ducote, busy with plans for the Athena Garden Club's spring tour of grand old homes, are having trouble getting the other club members to help. The rest of the group is all a-flutter now that dashing and still-eligible Hadley Partridge is back to restore his family mansion. But the idle chatter soon turns deadly serious when a body turns up on the Partridge estate after a storm... The remains might belong to Hadley's long-lost sister-in-law, Callie, who everyone thought ran off with Hadley years ago. And if it's not Callie, who could it be? As the Ducotes begin uncovering secrets, they discover that more than one person in Athena would kill to be Mrs. Partridge. Now An'gel and Dickce will need to get their hands dirty if they hope to reveal a killer's deep-buried motives before someone else's name is mud...

Miranda James is the New York Times bestselling author of the Cat in the Stacks Mysteries and the Southern Ladies Mysteries.

Praise for the Southern Ladies mysteries "Filled with Southern charm."-Richmond Times-Dispatch "Remind[s] me of Miss Marple if she were a Southern belle senior."-Open Book Society "As charming as the day is long."-MyShelf.com "James is a master at character development."-Debbie's Book Bag "Filled with humor realistic dialogue...Excellent from beginning to end."-Socrates' Book Reviews