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Emilie Richards
Emilie Richards continues her popular
Ministry is Murder Mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime
with book four, A Lie for a Lie
Emilie Richards is known for her many bestselling romance
and women’s fiction novels. But one day a character with
whom she had too much in common began to make ripples in her
imagination. "You think you’ve seen things?" Aggie
Sloan-Wilcox asked. "How many dead bodies have you found on
your front porch?" And Emilie had to put away the work in
progress and find out exactly what Aggie meant.
Aggie-Sloan Wilcox is a minister’s partner, just like
Emilie, although their husbands serve very different
churches. While Emilie writes novels, Aggie has found a
calling, too, she solves murders, and the tiny town of
Emerald Springs, Ohio seems to have more than its share. So
while Aggie raises her two precocious daughters and tries to
fit into church and community life, she also searches for
killers, a sometimes hazardous hobby.
A Lie for a Lie tells the story of Grady Barber,
former resident of Emerald Springs, songwriter and film
star, who comes back to judge the Emerald Springs Idyll, a
supersized talent show that the local charity divas have
staged to raise money for a new pediatric wing at the
hospital. Aggie, who is trying to avoid murder scenes is
persuaded to be Grady’s gofer, but after days of putting up
with his childish demands and outrageous manners, she is not
surprised to find him dead in his dressing room.
Who hated Grady enough to kill him? Sister Nora, the
ex-wife circus evangelist who wants to build a biosphere in
quiet Emerald Springs to showcase global warming?
Contestants from former talent shows? The teenager finalist
from Aggie’s own church who discovered Grady’s private voice
lessons came with a price? Of course Aggie doesn’t agree
with the local police, so she is forced to set off on her
own complicated quest.
All the Ministry is Murder novels are "suggested by"
Old Testament tales, and Beware False Profits is no
exception. Emilie says that’s just part of the fun. The
series has been well reviewed and the Wall Street Journal
called it "delightful," an adjective Emilie accepts with
pleasure.
This award-winning author has moved frequently. Settled now
in northern Virginia, the family has lived in six other
states—Florida, Louisiana, California, Arkansas, Ohio
and Pennsylvania—as well as Australia. She is the
mother of four, the grandmother of one, and like Junie,
Aggie’s mother, she is a quilter. Unlike Aggie she does not
solve murders, for which her husband’s congregation, is
grateful.
Books:
 A Truth For a Truth, October 2010
A Lie for a Lie, February 2009
Beware False Profits, November 2007
Let There Be Suspects, December 2006
Blessed Is The Busybody, December 2005
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