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Should Have Played Poker
2016
First Published
3.74
Average Rating
250
Number of Pages

Carrie Martin’s precarious balancing of her corporate law job and visiting her father at the Sunshine Village retirement home is upset when her mother appears, out of the blue, in Carrie’s office twenty-six years after abandoning her family. Her mother leaves her with a sealed envelope and the confession she once considered killing Carrie’s father. Carrie seeks answers about her past from her father prior to facing what is in the envelope. Before she can reach his room, she finds her mother murdered and the woman who helped raise her seriously injured. Instructed to leave the sleuthing to the police, Carrie’s continued efforts to discover why someone would target the two most important women in her life quickly put her at odds with her former lover―the detective assigned to her mother’s case. As Carrie and her co-sleuths, the Sunshine Village Mah jongg players, attempt to unravel Wahoo, Alabama’s past secrets in this fast paced cozy mystery, their efforts put Carrie in danger and show her that truth and integrity aren’t always what she was taught to believe.

Avg Rating
3.74
Number of Ratings
76
5 STARS
25%
4 STARS
37%
3 STARS
28%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
3%
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Author

Debra Goldstein
Debra Goldstein
Author · 7 books
Judge Debra H. Goldstein is the author of Kensington’s Sarah Blair cozy mystery series (Five Belles Too Many, Four Cuts Too Many, Three Treats Too Many, Two Bites Too Many, One Taste Too Many). She also wrote Should Have Played Poker and 2012 IPPY Award winning Maze in Blue. Her short stories, including Anthony and Agatha nominated “The Night They Burned Ms. Dixie’s Place” and Derringer finalist "Pig Lickin' Cake," have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, and Mystery Weekly. Debra served on the national board of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime and was president of the Southeast region of MWA and SinC's Guppy Chapter. Find out more about Debra at https://www.DebraHGoldstein.com .
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