Dead Ringer - Laura Fleming, Bk 2 Author:Toni L. P. Kelner Laura Fleming...she's a savvy sleuth born and bred in the heart of Dixie--a down-home detective solving crimes right in her own backyard. Because when it comes to murder, there's no place like home... — Byerly, North Carolina, is buzzing like a beehive. There's nothing like a family reunion to set tongues wagging and dirt flying. But ... more »scarcely have Laura Fleming and her husband, Richard, arrived back home than they find the body of a stranger sprawled out on the floor of the old town mill. He's the spitting image of the mill's owner, Big Bill Walters--and he's dead...from a bullet in the chest.
When the identity of the corpse is revealed, it only confounds the mystery...and sets skeletons in family closets rattling. After a second body turns up and someone takes a potshot at her own husband, Laura decides it's time to unmask a murderer. Which means unraveling the links between kissing cousins and one steel magnolia of an aunt whose deep, dark secret could make her the prime suspect...or the next victim.« less