Murder of a Botoxed Blonde
Denise Swanson

A health spa complete with tofu turkey and "Dress for Sexcess" lectures is the last place school psychologist Skye Denison wants to spend Thanksgiving. But when her best friend Trixie Frayne convinces her to take a complimentary weekend at the new Scumble River Spa, Skye accepts her fate and prepares to be slathered, wrapped, and roasted...

Then an annoying quartet that includes both Skye’s mom and her ex-boyfriend’s mother impulsively joins her for a girls- only holiday and Skye wonders just how bad things can get. She soon finds out—when she’s confronted with treatments only a masochist would enjoy, a diet plan fit for a Barbie doll, and a troublesome trespasser searching for a cache of jewels supposedly hidden on the spa grounds seventy years ago. Worst of all, a famous former model turns up dead in the miracle mud bath. It looks like no one will be leaving the spa until Skye can identify which of the eccentric guests, pesky local protesters, or sneaky treasure hunters is also a killer deserving of special treatment...in the county jail.

(A Scumble River Mystery #9)
Signet, April 2007
ISBN #0451221419
256 pages Paperback
$6.99

Also by Denise Swanson:
Nickeled-and-Dimed to Death, March 2013
Murder of the Cat's Meow, September 2012
Dead Blondes Tell No Tales, August 2012
Little Shop of Homicide, March 2012
Murder of a Creped Suzette, October 2011
Murder of a Bookstore Babe, March 2011
Murder of a Wedding Belle, April 2010
Murder of a Royal Pain, April 2009
Murder of a Chocolate-Covered Cherry, April 2008
Murder of a Real Bad Boy, August 2006
Murder Of A Smart Cookie, July 2005
Drop-Dead Blonde, February 2005
Murder Of A Pink Elephant, July 2004
Murder of a Barbie And Ken, November 2003
Murder of a Snake In The Grass, April 2003
Murder of a Sleeping Beauty, April 2002
And the Dying is Easy, June 2001
Murder of a Sweet Old Lady, April 2001
Murder of a Small-Town Honey, July 2000

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