"Like spending an afternoon in the porch swing on Aunt Dixie’s veranda." JoAnna Carl, Author of The Chocolate Puppy Puzzle "As Southern as Sunday fried chicken and sweet tea. Patricia Sprinkle’s Hopemore is as captivating…as Jan Karon’s Mitford. Come for one visit and you’ll always return." Carolyn Hart

Who Killed the Queen of Clubs?
Patricia Sprinkle

It’s a high-stakes game for Hopemore, Georgia, county magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough when she investigates the murder of a bridge maven....

State bridge champion Edith Whelan Burkett has been dealt a string of bad hands. Not only did her husband commit suicide, but he left her with a pile of debts and some valuable snuffboxes his will forbids her to sell. With just her job at the public library and a thousand-acre pecan grove to sustain her, Edie is under tremendous stress. But all Edie’s problems are trumped by her murder.

Once again Mac Yarbrough is in the thick of things, ready to investigate. All signs point to a man Mac believes innocent. Now she must figure out who’s stcking the deck against him….

(A Thoroughly Southern Mystery #7)
Signet, March 2005
272 pages ISBN: 0451214501
Paperback
$5.99

Also by Patricia Sprinkle:
What Are You Wearing To Die?, February 2008
Guess Who's Coming to Die?, February 2007
Did You Declare The Corpse?, February 2006
When Will the Dead Lady Sing, June 2004
Who Let That Killer in the House?, October 2003
Who Left that Body in the Rain?, December 2002
Who Invited the Dead Man?, July 2002

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