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Never Laugh as a Hearse Goes By (Penny Brannigan, Bk 5)
Never Laugh as a Hearse Goes By - Penny Brannigan, Bk 5 Author:Elizabeth J. Duncan Murder by the Books — Spa owner and amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan is attending a clerical conference at Gladstone’s Library in North Wales. Also attending as a guest speaker is her boyfriend, DCI Gareth Davies, there to give a talk on theft prevention. But behind the ornate red sandstone facade of this most respectable of ... more »Victorian buildings, Penny encounters deception, marital and financial infidelity, a sham marriage, blackmail for beginners and someone bent on murder.
When the bishop’s secretary dies of a suspicious case of food poisoning, Gareth leads the investigation. At Penny’s suggestion, Florence Semble, a friend from Penny’s adopted hometown, is invited to the library to decode the secretary’s shorthand notebook in the search for clues. As the conference continues, another body is found in the beautiful library itself, and Penny must once again search for a killer…« less