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Arson and old lace.
When your not so very departed great-great-aunt relies on her old belongings to cling to her particular form of spectral life force, what do you do when some of them come up for auction in Tuscany?
Travel to Italy, of course!
But what Genie Darling expected to be a smooth, if expensive operation, soon becomes a haunting experience.
The auction house goes up in flames, there's a dead body, and her great-great-aunt Adriana's evening gown from Chanel is a pile of ashes . . . or is it?
So much for la dolce vita. And when it looks like the wrong man will be suspected of arson and manslaughter, it's time for Genie and her merry ghost sidekick to sleuth again!
Carmen Radtke
Carmen Radtke has spent most of her life with ink on her fingers and a dangerously high pile of books and newspapers by her side. She has worked as a newspaper reporter on two continents and always dreamt of becoming a novelist and screenwriter. When she found herself crouched under her dining table, typing away on a novel between two earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, she realized she was hooked for life. The shaken but stirring novel made it to the longlist of the Mslexia competition, and her next book and first mystery, The Case Of The Missing Bride, was a finalist in the Malice Domestic competition in a year without a winner. Carmen was born in Hamburg, Germany, but had planned on emigrating since she was five years old. She first moved to New Zealand and now lives in York, United Kingdom, with her daughter, cat, and sometimes her seafaring husband comes home.
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