Who killed the principal of Scott Joplin High School? Of course the police are going to blame it on a young black student last seen in her office, but the boys aunt insists he is innocent and asks PI Meg Darcy to investigate. Cop and sometime lover Sarah Lindstrom and next door neighbor Patrick join in to make this and alternative family undertaking. LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD Winner for BEST LESBIAN MYSTERY
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Mommy Deadest is first rate! Marcys writing is fresh and unpretentious, and she knows how to weave a great story. Add to the mix a quirky St. Louis setting and a budding romance between Meg and the mercurial Lindstrom and you have got a perfect recipe to make a cold winters night sizzle --Ellen Hart, Author of the Jane Lawless mystery series
Intriguing, well-drawn characters move against a vivid St. Louis background in PI Meg Darcys third outing, where she faces professional and personal challenges-and peril aplenty..... --Claire McNab, Author of the Detective Inspector Carol Ashton mystery series
Intriguing, well-drawn characters move against a vivid St. Louis background in PI Meg Darcys third outing, where she faces professional and personal challenges-and peril aplenty..... --Claire McNab, Author of the Detective Inspector Carol Ashton mystery series
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Jean Marcy is the pen name for Jean Hutchinson and Marcy Jacobs. Partners for over twenty years, they had not truly explored the edges of ego until they began to write together. Additionally, they read, watch movies and entertain two dogs and three cats. They live across the Mississippi from St. Louis and enjoy retirement.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A great series!,
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This review is from: Mommy Deadest (Meg Darcy Mysteries) (Paperback)
The writing in this series just gets better! The characters are feisty and funny! . Meg and Sarah are a couple to be reckoned with and even the secondary characters are interesting. Do yourself a favour and read this series. I just hope we do not have to wait another two years for the next book. This series is a rival to J.M. Redman and Jaye Maiman for great lead characters.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Darcy and Lindstrom just get better.......,
By Bobbrun "lvsamystry" (OH USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mommy Deadest (Meg Darcy Mysteries) (Paperback)
....as do the authors of this series. I enjoyed this book so much that I dug out the first two books of the series to reread. Meg and Sarah are the perfect foils for each other. If you haven't read any of this series yet, start with "Cemetery Murders" and work your way through. They are worth reading.
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Another winner,
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This review is from: Mommy Deadest (Meg Darcy Mysteries) (Paperback)
This series just keeps getting better and better! And I do hope it continues. The relationship between Meg and Sarah is engaging and realistic. The mystery becomes secondary to me when these two are together. Meg's niece makes for a nice character to play off of, as does Patrick again. But nothing beats Darcy and Lindstrom!
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Scott Joplin, Joyce Tandy, Maureen O'Malley, Robert Dale, Miller Security, Jamie Trimble, Rhonda Tucker, Marvin Brock, Meg Darcy, Karin Lindstrom, Red Roof Inn, Ray Major, Larry Lloyd, Sarah Lindstrom, Daryl Sanders, Davey Bracus, Kyle Baker, Alma Archer, Crown Candy, Jamie Alden, Jeff City, Judith Rosero, Alissa Clark, Avery Smith, Clark Street Station New!
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Scott Joplin, Joyce Tandy, Maureen O'Malley, Robert Dale, Miller Security, Jamie Trimble, Rhonda Tucker, Marvin Brock, Meg Darcy, Karin Lindstrom, Red Roof Inn, Ray Major, Larry Lloyd, Sarah Lindstrom, Daryl Sanders, Davey Bracus, Kyle Baker, Alma Archer, Crown Candy, Jamie Alden, Jeff City, Judith Rosero, Alissa Clark, Avery Smith, Clark Street Station New!
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- Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller on page 176, and page 180
- Scott Joplin: Composer (Black Americans of Achievement) by Janet Hubbard-Brown on page 47
- Labor Day (Carolrhoda on My Own Books) by Geoffrey Scott on page 78
- The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom by Michael Bronski on page 101
- Little Women (Great Illustrated Classics) by Lucia Monfried on page 12
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- Queer Facts: The Greatest Gay and Lesbian Trivia Book Ever by Michelle Baker on page 109
- Theoretically Dead by Tinker Marks in Back Matter
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