Death by Design

By Laura Childs

Book Overview

Keepsake Crimes introduces Carmela Bertrand and her booming scrapbooking shop, Memory Mine, on the fringe of New Orleans's French Quarter. When Carmela's estranged husband is named a suspect in a Mardi Gras murder, it is Carmela who must find the clues to the real killer-in one of her customer's scrapbooks.

In Photo Finished, Carmela is hosting a late-night "Crop Till You Drop" session at her shop. But when a neighboring shop owner is murdered in the alley behind the store, Carmela's customers become the focus of the police investigation.

And finally, in Bound for Murder, Carmela is creating custom place settings for a wedding party when she discovers the groom with a knife protruding from his body. Carmela must help the bride pick up the pieces while wrapping up a murder with more than one lethal loose end.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425210006
• ISBN13: 9780425210000
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

So entertaining!!!

I really enjoyed this - you can't beat it... mystery, romance, cooking, scrapbooking...! Definitely try this out if you like Nora Roberts, Mary Higgins Clark, and the like... the three in one paperback is great for the price.

Love scrapbooking? You're gonna love this series

Laura Childs, author of a terrific Tea Cozy series, offers scrapbookers a cozy just for us. Her characters, and yes New Orleans is a character in her books, jump to life. The mysteries are fun and light, but what makes her books are the characters. By then end of her first book you wish Carmela and her Memory Mine shop were just down the street so you to could enjoy a day of creativity and conversation. This is a great opportunity of have all three of her Scrapbook Mysteries on one book. Enjoy! and Scrap on!