Better homes and corpses
By: Kathleen Bridge
Edition: Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Series: Hamptons home & garden mystery -- 1
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780425276587
Subjects: Interior decoration; Fiction
Other titles: Better homes & corpses
Description: "After Meg Barrett found her fiance 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 lives - she learns how the other half dies. Jillian's 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..." - Page [4] of Cover.
Notes: Includes recipes.