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New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand's pre-wedding party is overshadowed when a friend's intended groom is murdered. Asked by the heartbroken bride to look into the case, Carmela must help her friend pick up the pieces while wrapping up a murder that has more than one lethal loose end.
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August 17, 2008: Carmella Bertrand runs Memory Mine, a scrapbook shop in New Orleans. She's helping Wren Wright decorate for her pre-wedding gala. Wren is Gabby's cousin. Gabby works for Carmella. Jamie Redmond owns a bookstore and is a co-creator with Blaine of Neutron, a software program that detects bugs and bombs in software code. Jamie and Wren are to be married soon. Unfortunately Carmella finds Jamie murdered during the pre-wedding gala. Dunbar DesLauriers begins hounding Wren to sell Jamie's book stock to him for a 'fair price.' Then Glory, Carmella's sister-in-law who threw Carmella out of the family home after her Carmella's husband left, shows up threatening to call in the mortgage on Jamie's home which is now Wren's if she doesn't sell to Dunbar. Blaine begins claiming he now has sole right to Neutron. Wren asks Carmella for help. She gives her business advice about the bookstore as well as helps her look into things. Carmella discovers skeletons in Jamie's past. Could these be why he was killed? I love this series. It's a recent find for me. I can't wait to read more of them! Carmella and the gang at her shop are so much fun. I like the descriptions about the various scrapbook projects even though I never seem to have time for such things. I like how the author makes it seem so natural for Carmella to investigate even though she isn't one. And she does a great job of it. I love the New Orleans setting as well. This is a great cozy mystery series. I highly recommend his book and series.
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May 13, 2006: The dialogue doesn't flow true. The book reads like the author is lecturing to the readers about New Orleans or scrapbooking. I love to read and read many many different authors. Two of this author's books were more than enough.