num_pages: 319
description: The captivating first mystery in the Ancestry Detective series in which Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster deals with murders in both the past and present. According to her friends Lucy Lancaster Austin Texas genealogist has never been drunk. Tipsy sure but drunk? No way. So when she arrives back at her office from a three-martini lunch a few sheets to the wind it's a notable occasion. Even more momentous is what her client Austin billionaire Gus Halloran has announced on live television with a blotto Lucy standing at his side: Texas senator Caleb Applewhite might be responsible for the murder of Seth Halloran.Of course Lucy is a genealogist so the murder in question took place back in 1849. And it's possible that another nineteenth-century Texas politician may in fact have murdered Gus's great-great-grandfather instead. Lucy is determined to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt who the guilty man is but when her curiosity lands her at the scene of another murderthis time in the present-dayshe realizes that the branches of some family trees shouldn't be shaken for they're more twisted and dangerous than she ever thought possible.
language: English
title: Murder Once Removed
publisher: Minotaur Books