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Death Tidies Up
Kensington, Feb 2003, 22.00, 204 pp. ISBN: 1575668750 In New Orleans, though she fears her upcoming sixtieth birthday because that sounds old, Charlotte LaRue feels quite good about her cleaning company, Maid for a Day. Her small firm won a contract from realtor Marian Hebert to clean the renovated Devilier Apartments before the tenants take residency. However, the cleaning crew finds a dead body in a closet in one of the rooms. The police l...
Maid For Murder
Kensington, Feb 2002, 25.00, 264 pp. ISBN 1575668734 Charlotte La Rue needed something to support herself and her infant son when her lover died in Vietnam so she opened up a cleaning service Maid for a Day. Thirty years later, fifty-nine years old Charlotte has expanded the business which operates in the high society section of New Orleans called appropriately the Garden District. She is a good person who tries to keep a relationship with ...
Polished Off
Kensington, Feb 2004, 22.00, 245 pp. ISBN: 1575668777 In New Orleans, Charlotte LaRue, owner of Maid for a Day cleaning service, feels really good that her “favorite” (and only) nephew Daniel married her best worker Nadia and plans to adopt the young son of his new wife as his. Only, Daniel's mom Madeline acts irate over the elopement. When Maddie fails to hide her odious opinion, Charlotte becomes angry with her sibling, who never has a good t...
Wiped Out
Kensington, Feb 2005, 22.0, 272 pp. ISBN: 075820762X In New Orleans, Charlotte LaRue owns works as a maid for certain clients in order to support herself and keep busy. However, when Mimi Adams hires her Charlotte has no idea what she has let herself in for. Mimi explains that she is getting even with her neighbor Sally for hosting noisy pool parties and poisoning her trees. When the Horticultural Heritage Society meets at Mimi's home, Charlot...