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The Ming and I

Digging up old family dirt can uncover long buried secrets... and a new reason for murder.

North Carolina native Abigail Timberlake, owner of the Den of Antiquity, is quick to dismiss the seller of a hideous old vase — until the poor lady comes hurtling back through the shop window minutes later, the victim of a fatal hit-and-run.

Tall, dark, and handsome Homicide Investigator Greg Washburn — who just happens to be Abby’s boyfriend — is frustrated by conflicting accounts from eyewitnesses. And he’s just short of furious with his ever-lovin’, when he learns it was a valuable Ming vase, and Abby let it vanish from the crime scene. Abby decides she had better find out for herself what happened to the treasure — and to the lady who was dying to get rid of it.

It turns out the victim had a lineage that would make a Daughter of the Confederacy green with envy, and her connection with the historic old Roselawn Plantation makes that a good place to start sleuthing. Thanks to her own mama’s impeccable Southern credentials, Abby is granted an appointment with the board members — but no one gives her permission to snoop. And digging into the long-festering secrets of a proud family of the Old South turns out to be a breach of good manners that could land Abby six feet under in the family plot.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 256
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780380792559
  • Settings
  • United States of America
  • Genres
  • mystery, fiction, humor
  • Release date
  • 1997