A Really Cute Corpse - Tapa blanda

Claire Malloy investigates a series of increasingly malicious attacks against the reigning queen of the beauty pageant, unsure whether it is just a prankster or a full-fledged murderer

y is back. And this time she is the reluctant director of the Miss Thurberfest beauty pagent in Farberville. She's being driven to distraction by the usual baton twirlers, off-key singers, lead-foot dancers and town hysteria, so she's hardly prepared when a sandbag crashes onstage barely missing the queen of the pagent, and a bullet pierces her open convertible. Murder is not far behind--and that starts Claire poking around where somebody doesn't want her to be--until she comes uncomfortably close to joining Farberville's recently deceased chilling out in the town morgue....
"Wonderful."
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