Parke Stockard was certainly sitting pretty. Blessed with good looks and business sense to boot, she should have been content. Instead, Parke makes trouble in her small town. When retired octogenarian schoolteacher Myrtle Clover discovers her body, no one in Bradley is particularly upset. Myrtle decides to show up her police chief son and investigate the crime herself. And, just in time to play detective, she meets a widower newcomer who proves the perfect sidekick.
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Parke Stockard wouldn’t have ended up popped-over-the-head dead if she hadn’t been bent on making mischief that morning. To be fair, though, she couldn’t have known she’d messed with the wrong person this time—one who solved their Parke Stockard plight by leaving her dead at the church altar.
Waking up in her pink satin sheets that morning, she’d mulled over some malevolence. While brushing her hair model-quality blonde hair, she’d concocted even more nastiness. And, when driving her Champaign-colored BMW convertible to church, she made the fateful phone call that started the day on its slippery slope.
If Parke had—for once—rejected her baser instincts, she’d still be happily dreaming up devilment this very day. If she’d only listened to the good Parke buried deep in the nether regions of her murky conscience. Or had second thoughts and remembered she was on her way to church. But she didn’t and the stage was set for murder in the sanctuary.
Early-morning summer light peeked through stained glass windows, its gentle light illuminating the flower arrangement on the altar. The withering glare Parke leveled at it should have vaporized the intrepid bouquet on the spot. Unscathed by her fury, the black-eyed Susans and daisies sassily defied her.
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