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The Magnolia Hollow Mysteries: Book 1 - Softcover

Whitmore, J.R.

 
9798190733167: The Magnolia Hollow Mysteries: Book 1

Synopsis

Welcome to Magnolia Hollow, Georgia.

Where the oaks have Spanish moss, the cicadas start early, the lemonade is always cold, and the mysteries are never bigger than Sycamore Street — but they matter exactly that much.

Meet Shirley Beatty, who reads a town the way she reads a library index: left to right, nothing skipped. And Judy, in the lemon dress with the lemon tote, mixed nuts in one hand and a butter knife that has been useful since July in the other.

Book One collects five interlinked stories from one long August in Magnolia Hollow:

1. The Case of the First Place Pie
A blue ribbon goes missing at the Founder's Day pie table, and the only clue is a warm plate where a pecan pie should be.

2. The Case of the Borrowed Birdhouses
Twelve birdhouses, twelve porches, one builder who forgot to ask.

3. The Case of the Library Index
Eloise Grant left behind a card catalog, a clouded deed from 1931, and a gap at card 47 that hides ninety years of Sycamore Street history.

4. The Case of the Midnight Tomatoes
Only the ripe ones, taken between midnight and dawn. Wheel marks four inches apart, a white hair at wagon height, and a note in careful blue ink: Needed them — will return box — M. Enter Margaret Cecelia Marsh from 410 Sycamore, Biscuit the small white dog with the bad hip, and a red wagon built for sauce.

5. The Case of the Borrowed Wind Chimes
Seven chimes moved on seven calm nights, each to the porch where someone needed that exact sound to sleep. And on the annex porch at 412, a low copper chime that Margaret hasn't heard in forty years.

No murder. No mayhem. Just warm soil, warm fruit, tuned porches, sauce jars returned with more than was taken, and a street learning how to listen again.

Perfect for fans of small-town cozy mysteries, porch-sitting, and dogs in wagons.

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