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Gilt by Association (Den of Antiquity)

by Tamar Myers

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ISBN13: 9780380782376
ISBN10: 0380782375
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Petite, indomitable North Carolinian Abigail Timberlake rose gloriously up from the ashes of divorce--parlaying her savvy about exquisite old things into a thriving antiques enterprise: the Den of Antiquity. Now she's a force to be reckoned with in Charlotte's close-knit world of mavens, eccentrics and cuttthroat dealers. But a superb, gilt-edged 18th-century French armoire she purchased for a song at estate auction has just arrived along with something she didn't pay for: a dead body.

Suddenly her shop is a crime scene--and closed to the public during the busiest shopping season of the year--so Abigail is determined to speed the lumbering police investigation along. But amateur sleuthing is leading the feisty antiques expert into a murderous mess of dysfunctional family secrets. And the next cadaver found stuffed into fine old furniture could wind up being Abigail's own.

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When antique dealer Abigail Timberlake accepts delivery of an armoire she purchased at auction the previous day, she discovers an added bonus inside--a dead body. Before she knows it, the police believe she is their prime suspect. Left with no alternative, the savvy shopkeeper sets out to find the killer.
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About the Author

Tamar Myers is the author of seven previous Den of Antiquity mysteries: Larceny and Old Lace; Gilt by Association; The Ming and I; So Faux, So Good; Baroque and Desperate; Estate of Mind;and A Penny UrnedShe is also the author of the Magdelena Yoder series and an avid antiques collector. Ms Myers lived in the Carolinas.
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Linda Shelnutt, May 1, 2006 (view all comments by Linda Shelnutt)
Mix & Match Menageries; Don?t Miss the Merry Mayhem!

The mansions, restaurants, coffee or tea breaks, and munching while clueing all served to keep me reading onward, happy as a clam.

What I enjoyed most about this novel was the various routinely-natural and effortlessly-entertaining ways Abby worries out her mystery and interviews suspects, often over a meal in a luxury setting or at least one with rich aromatic ambiance of one intensity or another. Hey. I?m a culinary cozy addict.

Here are a couple of my favorite Abby clue-strewing scenes:

Bubble bath contemplations with her cat batting bubbles ...

Ex husbands? current wife giving Abby a makeover as the current ?homemaker? moans over now being the other woman, while Abby soothes the angst of her exhusband?s wife with whom he cheated on Abby ... Yeah. And the scene works with both irony and warmth!

Of course Abby?s excursions & exchanges with the gay Rob & Bob are delightfully warm & funny, and the gutsy gourmet meals Bob concocts which Rob & Abby beg to avoid are interestingly mouth watering ... from a distance.

Really enjoyed the way Abby dealt with her approach/avoidance conflict (romancing ever-after Vs dragging feet) as her relationship with trained police investigator Greg Washburn grows more intimate and skidds toward commitment.

This is a work of sheer and simple entertainment with a backwash of stereotypes squashed and genuine relating relished. Lots of hilarious mix & mismatch is stirred effervescently into the kettles of cuisine, means of marriage, ways of mystery, and action-packed menageries.

Take it. You won?t leave it for long.
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ISBN:
9780380782376
Author:
Myers, Tamar
Publisher:
Avon Books
Author:
by Tamar Myers
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - Series
Subject:
Detective and mystery stories
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Subject:
Women detectives
Subject:
Timberlake, abigail (fictitious character)
Subject:
Antique dealers
Subject:
Timberlake, Abigail (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Subject:
Charlotte
Subject:
Timberlake, Abigail
Subject:
Women detectives -- North Carolina -- Fiction.
Series:
Den of Antiquity
Series Volume:
v. 20, no. 25
Publication Date:
December 1996
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
6.96x4.36x.70 in. .34 lbs.
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