Title: Parchment and old lace
Description: Carmela couldn't imagine a finer evening than dinner at Commander's Palace with her beau, Detective Edgar Babcock. The food and the company are equally divine with the exception of Isabelle Black stopping by to brag about her upcoming wedding. Resuming the romance with a walk in the evening air, the couple is interrupted once again, this time by a terrifying scream from inside the cemetery. Having just seen Isabelle, Carmela and Edgar now find her lying across an aboveground tomb, strangled to death with a piece of vintage lace. Carmela would rather leave the investigating to Edgar, but she can't say no to Isabelle's sister Ellie, the tarot card reader at Juju Voodoo, when she asks her to help. As she untangles the enemies of Isabelle's past, Carmela hopes she can draw out the killer before someone else gets cold feet.
Subjects: Women detectives, Murder, Scrapbooking, Mystery & Detective, Fiction, Carmela Bertrand (Fictitious character), Investigation, Detective and mystery fiction, FICTION, General, Crime, fiction, New orleans (la.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Bertrand, carmela (fictitious character), fiction
Places: New Orleans, Louisiana