Ladies of the Lake - Hardcover

Haywood Smith

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ISBN 10: 1602855811 ISBN 13: 9781602855816

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2009

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Sisters Dahlia, Iris, Violet, and Rose all with grown children of their own have a complicated relationship, so when their grand - mother s will requires them to spend the whole summer without friends or family camping in at her run-down lodge on re mote Lake Clare in order to inherit the valuable land, old rivalries and new understanding emerge, with plenty of laughs along the way. Desperate to save her Buckhead home from foreclosure after being left in the lurch, recent divorcee Dahlia must complete the summer and sell her share immediately. Practical, even-tempered Violet will be no problem, but Iris has been Dahlia s nemesis since she learned to say, no to her big sister. And super-sweet, quirky Garage Sale Queen Rose is so green she d test the patience of a saint. As tempers flare and old secrets are revealed, four grown women discover that the past is never truly buried.

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Old alliances and old rivalries quickly surface when the four Barrett sisters -- in order to inherit and sell the valuable property -- must spend the entire summer with each other at the beloved lake of their childhood summers. But the sisters get far more than they bargained for: One will find love, and all four will gain new understanding of their late, self-absorbed grandmother . . . and they'll find two mummified dead bodies walled up in the root cellar -- one in a WWI doughboy's uniform.

Of course, each sister has her own way of dealing with the discovery -- from calling the police to getting rid of the bodies so the sale can proceed. As a compromise, Andromeda Strain meets "I Love Lucy" when the sisters carefully transfer the bodies into decorated heavy-mill Christmas tree bags (the closest they could get to body bags) then deposit them on a remote park bench and call the cops with an anonymous tip. Things take a turn for the bizarre when the police arrive to find the corpses stuffed in dancing Santa bags tied with big red bows.

About the Author:

HAYWOOD SMITH is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Wedding Belles, Red Hat Club and The Red Hat Club Rides Again. She lives near Atlanta, Georgia.

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