Bless Her Dead Little Heart [Paperback]

New York Timesbestselling author Miranda James returns to Athena, Mississippi, with the first Southern Ladies mystery featuring Miss An’gel and Miss Dickce Ducote, two snoopy sisters who are always ready to lend a helping hand.

With the Mississippi sun beating down, An’gel and Dickce are taking a break to cool off and pet sit their friend Charlie Harris’s cat, Diesel, when their former sorority sister, Rosabelle Sultan, shows up at their door unexpectedly, with her ne’er-do-well adult children not far behind.

Rosabelle’s selfish offspring are desperate to discover what’s in her will, and it soon becomes clear that one of them would kill to get their hands on the inheritance. Suddenly caught up in a deadly tangle of duplicitous suspects and deep-fried motives, it will take all of the sisters’ Southern charm to catch a decidedly ill-mannered killer…Praise for the Southern Ladies mysteries
 
“Filled with Southern charm.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
 
“Remind[s] me of Miss Marple if she were a Southern belle senior.”—Open Book Society
 
“As charming as the day is long.”—MyShelf.com
 
“James is a master at character development.”—Debbie’s Book Bag 
 
“Filled with humor [and] realistic dialogue…Excellent from beginning to end.”—Socrates’ Book ReviewsMiranda Jamesis theNew York Timesbestselling author of the Cat in the Stacks Mysteries and the Southern Ladies Mysteries.

Please visit Diesel the cat at facebook.com/DieselHarriscat.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

AUTHOR’S NOTE

Readers might be wondering how to pronounce the rather unusual names of the Ducote Sisters. Here’s a quick guide:

Miss An’gel’s name is pronounced “ahn-JELL.”

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