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Scrub-a-Dub Dead

by Barbara Colley
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Overview

Doing a favor for a friend in need has Charlotte cleaning rooms at the New Orleans Jazzy Hotel. The historic Garden District mansion is serving as a home-away-from-home for Shreveport's chapter of the Red Scarf Sorority, a group of socially elite women in their forties.

While picking up beautiful red silk scarves from the floor of a room she's cleaning, Charlotte is startled by the sudden arrival of its ranting and raving occupant. Charlotte is stunned into silence, until the Red Scarf Sorority comes to the rescue. The women manage to calm Tessa Morgan, who just had a run-in with her estranged husband's much younger mistress Lisa.

The next day, Charlotte gets back to work, only to learn that Lisa has been murdered, strangled by what could have been a red scarf. Now it's time for Charlotte to start scouring through clues before the person who rubbed out Lisa makes a clean getaway.

Synopsis

Doing a favor for a friend in need has Charlotte cleaning rooms at the New Orleans Jazzy Hotel. The historic Garden District mansion is serving as a home-away-from-home for Shreveport's chapter of the Red Scarf Sorority, a group of socially elite women in their forties.

While picking up beautiful red silk scarves from the floor of a room she's cleaning, Charlotte is startled by the sudden arrival of its ranting and raving occupant. Charlotte is stunned into silence, until the Red Scarf Sorority comes to the rescue. The women manage to calm Tessa Morgan, who just had a run-in with her estranged husband's much younger mistress Lisa.

The next day, Charlotte gets back to work, only to learn that Lisa has been murdered, strangled by what could have been a red scarf. Now it's time for Charlotte to start scouring through clues before the person who rubbed out Lisa makes a clean getaway.

Library Journal

As a favor to a friend, New Orleans cleaning lady extraordinaire Charlotte LaRue (Married to the Mop) is working at the Jazzy Hotel in the Garden District where she hears much too much about the personal lives of the Red Scarf Sorority, a group staying at the hotel. Then a young woman is murdered, and Charlotte believes that the police are looking at the wrong suspect. In her sixth series title, Colley has not lost her flair for throwing Charlotte into dangerous situations. For cozy fans. Colley lives in New Orleans. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Library Journal

As a favor to a friend, New Orleans cleaning lady extraordinaire Charlotte LaRue (Married to the Mop) is working at the Jazzy Hotel in the Garden District where she hears much too much about the personal lives of the Red Scarf Sorority, a group staying at the hotel. Then a young woman is murdered, and Charlotte believes that the police are looking at the wrong suspect. In her sixth series title, Colley has not lost her flair for throwing Charlotte into dangerous situations. For cozy fans. Colley lives in New Orleans. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

To oblige a friend, New Orleans housecleaner Charlotte LaRue (Wiped Out, 2005, etc.) takes a temporary job at the Garden District's Jazzy Hotel, where the body count keeps rising. It's lucky that members of the Red Scarf Sorority are committed to helping each other, because Sorority president Tessa Morgan really needs help. Her accountant husband Frank is bent on marrying Lisa, his much younger inamorata, and he wants a divorce. Worse, he insists that Tessa file for the divorce. Through a series of intermediaries including his daughter Belinda and his secretary Margaret Green, he's been pressing Tessa to sign the papers while Lisa stays as a guest in the Jazzy right under the noses of the Red Scarf ladies. When Lisa ends up with a red scarf around her neck, Detectives Gavin Brown and Judith Monroe, Charlotte's niece, consider Tessa the prime suspect. But thanks to Charlotte's talent for discernment, and her much greater talent for overhearing things (some accidentally, some not), the case is soon complicated by new suspects, from Christopher, the mysterious suitor who continues to pursue Lisa even after she tells him she's engaged to a married man, to Mack Sutton, Tessa's stepfather, who turns out to have a long-standing, and surprisingly intimate, history with Charlotte. A routine mystery enlivened by romantic interludes like this one: "As far as kisses went, it was more of a friendly type of kiss as opposed to the passionate type."

Book Details

Published
January 1, 2007
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780758207661

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