Rooms to Die For
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I reached up to embrace him, and the duvet slipped to my waist.
“Oh, oh, a little duvet malfunction,” I said, covering up again.
Rossi smiled. “According to Freud, there’s no such thing. Accidents don’t just happen.” He cupped me under the duvet. “Everything has a rational explanation.”
I grasped his wrist, staying his exploring fingers. “According to Adler, curiosity is stronger than sex.”
Frowning, he stripped off the hearts and said, “I don’t remember reading that.”
As always seemed to happen, the phone rang at the worst possible time. Rossi groaned. “Better get it. It might be for me. I turned off my cell.”
“If I answer it, what’s the point in having your cell off?”
“Just get the phone, Deva,” he said, flopping back against the pillows.
I picked up.
“You’re not going to believe this,” a woman shrieked through the line.
“Imogene, is that you?”
“Yes, yes and yes! I have fabulous news for you.”
“I’m all ears.”
“I’m getting married! Isn’t that wonderful? And this time, it’s for real.”
“Is the lucky man a violinist?”
“He is! I finally realized I’ve loved Syd all along. Can you believe that? All this time.”
“Yes, I can. Sometimes we just don’t recognize what’s right in front of our eyes. Anyway, congratulations! I’m thrilled for you both.”
“And just so you’ll know. Guess what I’m sitting on even as we speak?”
“I’ll take a wild guess. A pink leather ottoman?”
“Exactly. Syd says it goes perfectly with the cypress wall. Isn’t that great?”
“Music to my ears, Imogene. I’d love to hear every detail, so why don’t you stop by the shop tomorrow, and we’ll have a longer chat? Right now I really should hang up.” I let the duvet slip again. “There’s a man here, and I’m dying to ask him a very important question.”
* * * * *
Help interior designer Deva Dunne solve more edge-of-your-seat mysteries in Jean Harrington’s Murders by Design series, available now!
Designed for Death
Interior designer Deva Dunne’s latest project comes to a screeching halt when blood on the carpet leads her to the body of her client, an exotic dancer with a mysterious past. But the murdered woman is not the only resident of the posh beachfront condominium with secrets, and investigating officer Lieutenant Victor Rossi considers them all suspects.
The Monet Murders
Interior decorator Deva Dunne never dreamed she’d see a Monet hanging on someone’s dining room wall. Then she snags a client with two Monet seascapes. Her thrill lasts until she finds one of the paintings missing, cut from its frame, and the cook shot dead...
Killer Kitchens
Deva’s boyfriend, police lieutenant Victor Rossi, has misgivings about her promising job—especially when he accompanies her to one of Francesco’s dinner parties. After Francesco returns a dish to the kitchen untasted, the chauffeur promptly scarfs it down and drops dead from cyanide poisoning.
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About the Author
Jean Harrington lives in Naples, Florida, with her husband, John. No cat, no dog, no children anymore. After seventeen years of teaching English literature at Becker College in Worcester, Massachusetts, she now spends her days—and some nights—writing the Murders by Design mystery series for Carina Press. Along with Deva Dunne, her amateur sleuth, Jean is having great fun wallowing knee-deep in fictional dead bodies.
Award-winners Designed for Death and The Monet Murders are the first two books in the series. Killer Kitchens and current release, Rooms to Die For, are Deva Dunne’s latest romps with murder and mayhem.
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ISBN-13: 9781426897818
ROOMS TO DIE FOR
Copyright © 2014 by Jean Harrington
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