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Closetful of Corpse
Petite, indomitable North Carolinian Abigail Timberlake rose
gloriously up from the ashes of divorce--parlaying her savvy about
exquisite old things into a thriving antiques enterprise: the Den of
Antiquity. Now she's a force to be reckoned with in Charlotte's
close-knit world of mavens, eccentrics and cuttthroat dealers. But a
superb, gilt-edged 18th-century French armoire she purchased for a song
at estate auction has just arrived along with something she didn't pay
for: a dead body.
Suddenly her shop is a crime scene--and closed to the public during
the busiest shopping season of the year--so Abigail is determined to
speed the lumbering police investigation along. But amateur sleuthing is
leading the feisty antiques expert into a murderous mess of
dysfunctional family secrets. And the next cadaver found stuffed into
fine old furniture could wind up being Abigail's own.
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