Better Homes and Corpses

August 1, 2015
Meg Barrett's new life (after the breakup of her marriage) as a decorator and antique picker in the Hamptons is disrupted when she visits the fancy home of Jillian Spenser, her former college roommate, and finds Jillian wounded and her mother, Caroline, dead. Jillian, unfortunately, cannot remember what happened. Meg and her partner are hired to inventory the estate to determine if anything was stolen. In the process, she finds herself attracted to Cole, Caroline's long-off-the-grid son, though he seems to be a suspect in his mother's murder. Some valuable furniture appears and disappears while Meg alternately works at the estate, attends garage sales, and sleuths. The descriptions of furniture and other antiques, as well as juicy tidbits on the Hamptons, make for entertaining reading for those who enjoy both antiques and lifestyles of the rich and famous. Fans of Jane K. Cleland and Sharon Fiffer make up the natural audience.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)