num_pages: 294
description: Riches to rags.  Controlling to chaos.  But murder  seriously? After her ex-husband leaves her high and dry former socialite Doreen Montgomery's chance at a new life comes in the form of her grandmother Nan's dilapidated old house in picturesque Kelowna  and the added job of caring for the animals Nan couldnt take into assisted living with her: Thaddeus the loquacious African gray parrot with a ripe vocabulary and his buddy Goliath a monster-size cat with an equally monstrous attitude. Its the new start Doreen and her beloved basset hound Mugs desperately need. But just as things start to look up for Doreen Goliath the cat and Mugs the dog find a human finger in Nans overrun garden. And not just a finger. Once the police start digging the rest of the body turns up and turns out to be connected to an old unsolved crime. With her grandmother as the prime suspect Doreen soon finds herself stumbling over clues and getting on Corporal Mack Moreaus last nerve as she does her best to prove her beloved Nan innocent of murder.
language: English
title: Arsenic in the Azaleas
publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.