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Advertising copywriter Leigh Koslow is not leaving her twenties on a good note. Her career's going nowhere, her parents live too close for comfort, and the love of her life is a skittish Persian cat. Luckily the Pittsburgh suburbs have enough quirky characters and unusual goings-on to keep... read more

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Advertising copywriter Leigh Koslow is not leaving her twenties on a good note. Her career's going nowhere, her parents live too close for comfort, and the love of her life is a skittish Persian cat. Luckily the Pittsburgh suburbs have enough quirky characters and unusual goings-on to keep... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Advertising copywriter Leigh Koslow is not leaving her twenties on a good note. Her career's going nowhere, her parents live too close for comfort, and the love of her life is a skittish Persian cat. Luckily the Pittsburgh suburbs have enough quirky characters and unusual goings-on to keep Leigh's investigative instincts honed. But possessing the same curiosity as her cat may get her killed--and Leigh doesn't have nine lives....
To keep her pregnant cousin company while her husband's out of town, Leigh moves into their beautiful Victorian home overlooking the Ohio River. But before Leigh can unpack, trouble arrives in the form of a corpse ... in the hammock ... embalmed. Laid off from her job, Leigh decides to investigate--and steps on the toes of her favorite policewoman, Maura Polanski. Their efforts lead them to the deadly events that occurred in the house more than fifty years ago. As the neighborhood rumor mill runs full tilt, Leigh and Maura must unravel fact from fiction to exorcise the demons of the past. A welcome diversion from turning thirty....

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Avalon, Bellevue, and West View Pennsylvania

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The sounds filtered through Leigh's sleeping brain, nagging her into consciousness. She knew them all too well. First, the series of short, wet hiccups--then the muffled splat. Her cat, Mao Tse, was throwing up. Again.

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This is book 1 of 10 in Leigh Koslow. (standard series)

Followed by Never Sorry.

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  1. Edie Claire (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Signet Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: April 1999
ISBN: 978-0451197887
Page Count: 248

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Reading Level: Adults

Rated PG for mild profanity.


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