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Santa Louisa is a small town located on California’s central coast, about a half hour’s pleasant drive from the coast. Nestled in softly rolling hills dotted with oak trees and vineyards, it is a beautiful oasis in the state’s ever-increasing asphalt jungle of congested freeways, large tract houses on small lots, and strip malls. Not that it is immune to growth. The vineyards, wineries, and tourist trade have woken up the sleepy agricultural little town. The drugstore counter and the bowling alley café are no longer the best, and darn near the only, places to eat. The Emporium has been replaced by Walmart and the old two cell police station has given way to a new state of the art police and emergency control center, right down the street from the new library and civic offices. Yes, the town has joined the twenty first century. Just ask Mary McGill. She’s lived here all her life and she’ll tell you.
Mary, a retired school teacher and widow, will also tell you small towns are not immune from family feuds, vicious gossip, dishonest shop keepers and on more occasions than she would like to admit, murder. She knows that because she and her cocker spaniel, Millie, have reluctantly found themselves knee deep in the investigation of more than one. But then, Mary knows almost everyone in town, she’s probably taught someone in most families, she’s been at their weddings, and a lot of their funerals. She also runs just about every charity or community event in town. You learn a lot about what goes on that way. Even when it ends in murder.
Mary and Millie’s adventures are related in Dressed to Kill, Purebred Dead, Curtains for Miss Plym and Blood Red White and Blue.
Blurb for Dressed to Kill:
Mary McGill and her cocker spaniel Millie get the fright of their lives on Halloween when they hear gunshots coming from the bank and the robber, dressed in a clown costume, points his gun at them before fleeing the scene. Mary is horrified when she discovers Police Chief Dan Dunham has been shot in the shoulder and a woman has been killed. Why would the clown shoot an ordinary citizen? Mary soon learns that the victim is Victoria Witherspoon, a local woman who owned a sewing shop and must have recognised the clown costume – because she made it herself. With Dan in hospital and unable to investigate, can Mary and Millie unmask the savage killer clown before he strikes again?
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