When Will the Dead Lady Sing
Patricia Sprinkle

“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

Hopemore, Georgia county magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough is experiencing some of the weirdest weeks of her life, weighing the cons and more cons of a strange animal in her yard, the return of an old boyfriend, and of course, murder…

Folks in Hopemore don’t expect to find a buffalo grazing on the front lawn. But that’s exactly what MacLaren discovers early one autumn morning. The buffalo turns out to be the campaign mascot for gubernatorial candidate Lance Bullock— the son of a man Mac never expected, or wanted, to see again. It’s a part of her life the judge would prefer to keep hidden…especially from her husband.

But when the body of a local vagrant is found dead and all signs point to the ex, Mac is caught in a murder investigation that puts her right in the spotlight. MacLaren Yarbrough is in serious danger of losing her sanity—not to mention her husband …

“This series is a winner.”—Tamar Myers

Southern Wisdom from MacLaren Yarbrough: Mama always said a wife should teach her husband to cook, so he doesn’t need to stop on his way home from your funeral to get another wife.

(A Thoroughly Southern Mystery #6)
Signet (Mystery), June 2004
272 pages ISBN: 0451212223
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
Who Killed the Queen of Clubs?, March 2005
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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