Busy Bodies

Since his recent arrival, avant-garde artist Zeno Gorgias has been turning heads and attracting gawkers in the otherwise tame college town of Farberville Arkansas. Zeno's "interactive" art-featuring an undressed woman lounging beside a coffin on his front

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Title of ebook: Busy Bodies
ISBN: 9781429966023
parent-ISBN: 9780312384623
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Published: 04-2009
Released online for download: 04-28-2009
Author of eBook: Hess, Joan
Series: More eBooks from the A Claire Malloy Mystery series
Number in this series: 10

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Busy Bodies

Chapter One

I am not an adept liar, which I think speaks well for my character. However, this deficiency has propelled me into sticky situations in the past, and I had a foreboding feeling it was about to do so again.

"Tea, Miss Parchester?" I said into the telephone receiver. "I'd love to, but I—I simply don't see when I could—well, I was planning on organizing my files, and I promised Caron that I'd drive her and Inez to the mall, and—"

Miss Emily Parchester had taught high-school students for forty years before her retirement and therefore was unimpressed with my sputtery excuses. "Oh, do bring the girls with you. I so enjoy their youthful enthusiasm. I'll see all of you at five o'clock."

Groaning, I replaced the receiver. In that my bookstore was bereft of customers, I received no sympathetic, curious, or even incurious glances. The die was cast: Miss Parchester, a mistress of manipulation, was expecting us for tea. In the past, I'd masqueraded as a substitute teacher in order to come to her rescue when she'd been accus ... read full excerpt from: Busy Bodies ebook

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