Chapter 1
The rapping at the front door of the carriage house…
Chapter 2
Of course, once I’d calmed down from my encounter with…
Chapter 3
James Aloysious Foley leaned back in his chair and studied…
Chapter 4
I turned up the air conditioner on the pickup truck…
Chapter 5
James Foley held his breath as he watched the two…
Chapter 6
“Eloise Foley!” Merijoy Rucker’s eyes went all crinkly with delight…
Chapter 7
Right after Tal announced he was in love with somebody…
Chapter 8
Merijoy Rucker knew something was up. Not for nothing was…
Chapter 9
Weezie was shaking and milky-pale by the time she got…
Chapter 10
The day after Anna Ruby Mullinax’s memorial service, I went…
Chapter 11
Within a month it was in all the papers, the…
Chapter 12
The doors at Beaulieu were supposed to open at 8…
Chapter 13
“Tell me the game plan again,” BeBe said, slapping at…
Chapter 14
Jethro barked.
Chapter 15
The redbrick police barracks was at the corner of Habersham…
Chapter 16
I spent the night in jail. That much I could…
Chapter 17
I closed and locked the door behind me and took…
Chapter 18
On the Monday morning after my arrest, I had a…
Chapter 19
James parked his car beside the navy blue sedan, in…
Chapter 20
When I was just a little kid, we’d go out…
Chapter 21
Daniel let go. I climbed down off the chair.
Chapter 22
Daniel had the radio in his truck turned to a…
Chapter 23
I could hear the phone ringing as I unlocked the…
Chapter 24
I was just taking the last of the cheesecakes out…
Chapter 25
Time was running short. Half a dozen times Friday morning…
Chapter 26
Amazingly, he was still standing there when I opened the…
Chapter 27
The Ruckers’ garden reminded me of a painting I’d seen…
Chapter 28
“How’s the potpie, Weezie?” Randy boomed from his end of…
Chapter 29
“Are you mad at me?” Daniel asked after I threw…
Chapter 30
Daniel screeched off in the truck, laying rubber, not an…
Chapter 31
Saturday. Six A.M. I struggled out of bed and into…
Chapter 32
I was unloading the truck when BeBe pulled into the…
Chapter 33
James caught up with Jonathan near the Spanish-American War monument…
Chapter 34
“Weezie? Pick up the phone, Eloise. I know you’re there.”
Chapter 35
I really did need help moving all that heavy furniture,…
Chapter 36
“Whew,” Daniel said as he stepped into the living room…
Chapter 37
We left the oak stuff in Daniel’s truck in Thunderbolt…
Chapter 38
“Two point five million dollars,” James said, taking off his…
Chapter 39
By Tuesday, I’d sold Cousin Lucy’s furniture for seven hundred…
Chapter 40
Jethro was hiding under the kitchen table when I got…
Chapter 41
Convincing Mama to let me take her to lunch took…
Chapter 42
After a fruitless half hour of searching for Mama, I…
Chapter 43
I stopped at my parents’ house on the way back…
Chapter 44
True to its name, La Juntique was mostly junk, with…
Chapter 45
“Two strikes,” Daniel said. “I think there’s another antique store…
Chapter 46
“This isn’t what you think,” I said. “Tal left a…
Chapter 47
When I woke up, Daniel was nibbling on my ear.
Chapter 48
James pushed through the door to his office, concentrating on…
Chapter 49
James eased himself into a rocking chair and took a…
Chapter 50
“Mama?” I poked my head around the doorway of my…
Chapter 51
“We could check Daniel’s personnel file. From the restaurant,” BeBe…
Chapter 52
On the way home from Guale, I drove by the…
Chapter 53
I drove directly to Uncle James’s house on Washington Avenue.
Chapter 54
As we pulled up into the Ruckers’ driveway, Merijoy emerged…
Chapter 55
After we left Merijoy Rucker’s house, Jonathan took me back…
Chapter 56
James sat down at the desk in the house on…
Chapter 57
“What do you think they’re doing in that warehouse?” I…
Chapter 58
Saturday nights, James had a gin and tonic promptly at…
Chapter 59
“Tell me again how this scam of Hargreaves’s works,” Daniel…
Chapter 60
BeBe waited until we heard Jonathan’s car pull out of…
Chapter 61
After Daniel left, I was in shock. He hadn’t yelled,…
Chapter 62
Mama cocked her head and gave me a coy look.
Chapter 63
When I came downstairs in the morning, Tal was gone.
Chapter 64
James fidgeted with his collar. He straightened his tie, coughed…
Chapter 65
Merijoy Rucker’s face was flushed with excitement.
Chapter 66
“Absolutely not,” Merijoy said, looking from me to Liz Fuller…
Chapter 67
Hargreaves sat back in his desk chair and gave me…
Chapter 68
“Has he said anything about me?” I asked BeBe. She…
Chapter 69
I was sorting through a box of old sterling flatware…
Chapter 70
I stopped blotting my dress with the edge of the…