Book Description
When the garishly grotesque clan of wealthy carpet-sweeper magnate Otto Broadie sweeps down upon Judith McMonigle's Hillside Manor Inn, it looks like there'll be a wild night of drinking, dining, and fortune-telling in the offing. But when their soothsayer-for-hire Madame Gushenka drops dead after someone douses her tea leaves with bug killer, harried hostess Judith and her irrepressible cousin Renie are left to clean up the mess. One of the Brodie bunch would dearly love to sweep the Madame's murder under the rug, however, and that might mean eliminating the nosy Ms. McMonigle as well. But with the help of her one-time beau, policeman Joe Flynn, Judith is determined to rattle the dust off some closeted family skeletons, in order to coax a killer out of hiding before coffee is served.

April 17th 2006 is BookCrossing’s 5th Anniversary!
In honor of this event bookcrosser solittletime decided to challenge us with the Race to Three Million Registered Books. I am encouraged that we can reach the goal of registering 3 million books. Of course, I thought this was a great idea and had to be involved! :)

Amazingly, I have many books hiding around the apartment that still needed to be registered. This challenge was the push I needed to register them.

Here is a list of where I find most of my books:
Beaverton Library’s Book Corner
Powell’s bookstore
Annie Blooms Books
Amazon.com
Goodwill
Library sales
and any where else I happen to see a book that catches my eye :)

This book is currently being offered up on CasualReader's BookRelay site.

RELEASE NOTES:

This book was released on a camping trip with my niece, Shadow-luvs-J, and my 9-year-old nephew, soon to be a BCer. :)

My nephew and I released this book outside of the Beverly Beach Visitor's Center. Enjoy!

Beverly Beach Campground
US 101, 7 miles N of Newport


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I found the book in a Doctors office. Was very surprised not having heard about Book Crossing.
I started reading it while I waited and had trouble putting it down. I am now a huge fan of Mary Daheim. I search the goodwills and bookstores for her books. It has opened up a whole new world of authors for me and I am very grateful!!! Thank you!!!! Annie Grenawalt