Murder on a Girls' Night Out by Anne George

Their mysterious guest has taken a plunge from the ninth floor of the courthouse building - an apparent suicide.

Lunch is a fascinating lesson on the hazards of finding dirty linens in ancestral boudoirs that ends abruptly when their guest scurries off with the local judge, leaving the sisters with their mouths open - and finishing their luncheon companion's cheesecake - when the police arrive. Practical Patricia Anne has put away her aunt-of-the-bride blue chiffon and settled back into domesticity when fun-loving Mary Alice calls to say they have a post-wedding date with a genealogist from the groom's side of the family. Mary Alice has spared nothing for her only daughter's wedding - from seventy-five yards of bridal train to gourmet food for over three hundred guests and enough glittering elegance to make Mary Alice think about finding herself a fourth rich husband to pay for it all. The sheriff has some questions for Mouse and her sister Sister, who were the last people, besides the murderer, of course, to see the ill-fated victim alive.Īnd they had better come up with some answers soon - because a killer with unfinished business has begun sending them some mighty threatening messages.

Sensible retired schoolteacher Patricia Anne is inclined to disagree - especially when they find a strangled and stabbed dead body dangling in the pub's wishing well. Together they have a knack for finding themselves in the center of some of Birmingham's most unfortunate unpleasantness.Ĭountry Western is red hot these days, so overimpulsive Mary Alice thinks it makes perfect sense to buy the Skoot 'n' Boot bar - since that's where the many-times-divorced 'Sister' and her boyfriend du jour like to hang out anyway. Mary Alice - 'Sister' - is big, brassy, flamboyant, and bold. Patricia Anne - 'Mouse' - is respectful, respectable, and demure, a perfect example of genteel Southern womanhood.

Murder on a Girls' Night Out by Anne George