Part of Series
One of the Bennett Sisters got engaged at the end of 'The Girl in the Empty Dress.' Now it’s Christmas and time for an engagement party. Merle’s French lover arrives just in time and sweeps her off her feet again. But is he really here for the engagement party and the holidays, or does he have a secret agenda—like he did in 'Blackbird Fly'? When Pascal takes Merle to see a drag revue she is even more confused. What is he up to? Is he working with French consulate on wine fraud? How is the French drag queen involved in all this? Festivities, fun, food, and fraud in the novella that answers some of the questions posed in 'Blackbird Fly.' Will Merle finally shed herself of the shame of her late husband's family? Does she have a future with Pascal? Read on!
Author
Lise McClendon is a fiction writer living in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. She has been a film reviewer, a film maker, a journalism professor, and a PR flack. Since her first novel, The Bluejay Shaman, in 1994, she has served on the national board of Mystery Writers of America and the International Association of Crime Writers/North America, as well as on faculty of the Jackson Hole Writers Conference where each year she critiques, speaks, and learns from writers new and old. Check out the Lise McClendon Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LiseMcClendon Lise McClendon also writes as Rory Tate in the 2011 thriller, JUMP CUT. Her new novel by Rory Tate is PLAN X, available now. Read her latest novel, Château des Corbeaux, 17th in the Bennett Sisters mystery series that began with Blackbird Fly.
