"Fine amateur sleuth"
When her rich husband Seamus Meechum walked out on their
marriage because he needed his freedom, his sister Glory
kicked Carmella Bertrand out of the family mansion.
Instead of moping, she finds an apartment in New Orleans'
French Quarter and opens Memory Mine, a scrapbooking shop
not far from her new abode. Carmella helps Wren Wright decorate for the latter's pre-
wedding gala. Wren is engaged to Jamie Redmond, the owner
of a profitable bookstore and creator with his partner
Blaine of a software program called Neutron that detects
bugs and bombs in newly written software code. When
Carmella takes a breather she finds Jamie dead. While
Wren tries to cope with her finance's murder, Dunbar Des
Lauriers pushes hard to buy Jamie's stock in the
bookstore. Glory, who holds the mortgage to Jamie's and
Wren's home, threatens to call it in if Wren doesn't sell
to her. Blaine claims to have sole rights to Neutron and
Carmella finds proof that Jamie was engaged to another
woman a year ago without telling Wren. Overwhelmed, Wren
asks Carmella to find her fiancé's killer; her inability
to refuse places her in danger from a killer without mercy. Laura Childs is a creative storyteller who grabs reader
attention from the time Jaime is murdered and doesn't
release it grip until the murderer is found and Carmella
is safe. There are numerable suspects with viable motives
and readers will have a lot of fun guessing who the real
killer is. There are a lot of creative arts and croft
tips at the end of the book, a bonus that readers can make
use of for the winter holidays. BOUND FOR MURDER raises
the bar on amateur sleuth quality. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 15, 2004
SummaryNew Orleans scrap-booking shop owner Carmela Bertrand's pre-
wedding party is overshadowed when a friend's intended
groom is murdered. Asked by the heartbroken bride to look
into the case, Carmela must help her friend pick up the
pieces while wrapping up a murder that has more than one
lethal loose end.
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