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Synopsis
As Halloween approaches, engaged couple Mae December and Sheriff Ben Bradley have devoted all their energy to Ben s campaign for reelection as sheriff of Rose County, Tennessee. The race is already too close to call when the sheriff s office is hit with yet another maddeningly tricky murder case. In recent years the town of Rosedale has had more than its fair share of murders, a fact Ben s smarmy opponent is all too eager to exploit.
Investigator Dory Clarkson and her friend, Counselor Evangeline Bon Temps, are visiting the mysterious Voodoo village when a resident tells them her granddaughter, Zoe Canja, is missing. Her dog, a Weimaraner nursing four pups, escapes the house and finds the young woman s body in a shallow grave. Evangeline becomes Sheriff Ben Bradley s unofficial consultant because her grandmother in Haiti and later her mother in New Orleans practiced Voodoo. A threatening symbol is left on the pavement by Dory s front door, effectively banning her from the case.
Evangeline and the sheriff s office ask too many questions, and Evangeline soon wears out her welcome. Voodoo curses aside, Ben s job is at stake, and no one associated with the case is safe until the killer is found.
Book 5 in the Mae December Mystery series, which began with One Dog Too Many.
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