num_pages: 293
description: After Meg Barrett found her fianc still had designs on his ex-wife she decided it was time to refurbish her life. Leaving her glamorous job at a top home and garden magazine she fled Manhattan for Montauk only to find decorating can sometimes lead to detecting In between scouring estate sales for her new interior design business Cottages by the Sea Meg visits the swanky East Hampton home of her old college roommate Jillian Spenser. But instead of seeing how the other half livesshe learns how the other half dies. Jillians mother known as the Queen Mother of the Hamptons has been murdered. Someone has staged a coup. When she helps a friend inventory the Spensers estate for the insurance company Meg finds herself right in the thick of things. Cataloging valuable antiques and art loses its charm when Meg discovers that the Spenser family has been hiding dangerous secrets which may have furnished a murderer with a motive. As Meg gets closer to the truth the killer will do anything to paint her out of the picture FIRST IN A NEW SERIES 
language: English
title: Better Homes and Corpses
publisher: Berkley