A Fistful of Death
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Suddenly a pounding on the front door stopped us cold. 'What now?' I thought. "Why can't we ever finish this conversation without someone knocking on the door?' I got up and headed to the door with Travis close behind me.
On the door-step in full uniform stood Deputy Augie Dawge. "Adelaide Bonner Girard?" he asked.
"You know that I'm Adelaide Girard, Deputy Dawge." I smiled at him, my upsetting conversation with Travis T slipping into a mental pending file in the back of my mind. "Won't you come in?"
"He stepped through the doorway. "Adelaide Bonner Girard, I am placing you under arrest for the murder of Anson Kerringer," he stated om what seemed to be his best official tone.
In spite of my shock at his pronouncement, I managed to say, "You are doing no such thing."
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If Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple warped into the Twenty-first Century, she could be Adelaide Bonner Girard, Mom Extraordinaire and woman suddenly on her own. Addie Girard has a knack for finding herself in the wrong place at an unfortunately right time, hustling to deal with the issues of singledom. But what to do about the body on the floor?
Friends in Wanderwood, TX, and her grown children are swept into the swirl of events while Addie strives to discover the joys of a new life as a widow in charge of many decisions. So many options and so little time to explore them—and a dead body on the floor—lead Addie’s life down paths that she never foresaw but now embraces as a part of her new adventure. Wanderwood, TX, isn’t St. Mary Meade, but the similarities and conflicts of small-town life are there. If only there weren’t that dead body on the floor!
About the Author
Judy Spoon Ertel, world traveler and author extraordinaire, grew up in several towns (Chickasha, Duncan Altus) in Oklahoma. A former columnist and teacher in Central Texas, she is very familiar with life in small Texas towns like Wanderwood, Texas, the fictional setting for the Addie Girard Mysteries. Currently, she co-habs with her daughter Kate and their three cats in Central Oklahoma.