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Val & Pals Boxed Set: Volumes 1,2 & the Prequel (Val & Pals Humorous Mystery Series)

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by Margaret Lashley


  This damn landscaping is the gift that keeps on giving. Giving me more chores and responsibilities and ways to sweat my freaking ass off! Thanks a lot, Tom!

  Soaked to my skin, I gave up and lay down in the hammock. I was drying off my clothes and cooling off my temper when that freaking jerk Guilty Conscience showed up and tried to convince me that maybe I had been the insensitive one.

  Had I been wrong to grouse about Tom’s beautiful and probably damn-expensive birthday gift? I gave my unwanted visitor an angry glare and a couple of Tanqueray and tonics. The second TNT, along with a Southern dollop of self-righteousness, had just begun to loosen guilt’s whiny stranglehold on me when I heard a familiar voice call my name.

  “Val?”

  So much for enjoying the tranquility of my new backyard. Geeze! Maybe I really was being an ungrateful sourpuss….

  I took a tentative peek out of the hammock at the nosey, long-legged, horse-faced old woman in a gold bikini.

  “Hi, Laverne.”

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