The Mother Shadow

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781453289778

<DIV><B>Edgar Award Finalist: After a suicide, two oddball female sleuths investigate a coin collection that is anything but small change.</B></DIV><DIV><BR /> Maggie Hill&rsquo;s life has become temporary. Her marriage was temporary, her jobs are temporary, and if work doesn&rsquo;t pick up, her time in California might be temporary, too. Her latest employer is Ellis Kenilworth, an aging coin expert with a first-rate collection and a tenth-rate family. One morning, he has Maggie type up a codicil to his will, changing the document so that his million-dollar rare-coin collection goes not to his kin, but to a woman named Claire Conrad. By the end of the day, the codicil has vanished, and Kenilworth has killed himself with a shotgun.</DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV><DIV>When the hyena-like family starts to circle Maggie, she reaches out to Conrad. The heiress is an eccentric private detective who wears only black and white&mdash;and whose sense of honesty is as clear-cut as her wardrobe. Together, they fight to protect an old man&rsquo;s final wish, battling against a family so greedy that they would steal the coins right out of the dead man&rsquo;s hand.</DIV>