Dead Men Don't Decorate

By: Cordy Abbott

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Roberto Fratelli, proprietor of the antiques store Waited4You, is the meanest man in Marthasville, Virginia. So when he puts the business up for sale, the other merchants in town are overjoyed. And now the business has a prospective buyer: local resident and the newly elected mayor's mother, Camille Benson, who’s thrilled at the prospect of getting into the antiques business. During a celebration in honor of Camille’s new venture, her best friend, Opal, tells her about finding a letter, purportedly from Sally Fairfax to George Washington, dated 1756, hidden under a chair in the shop. When they return to retrieve the cache, they find Roberto’s lifeless body on the floor—and no letter.

Police question Ella Coleman, Roberto’s ex-wife, and discover that her current husband supplied Roberto with oh-so-faux Victorian furniture. Did the two cheat the wrong customer? Or could the murder be connected to an earlier theft of rare books from the shop—a theft Roberto never reported?

As Camille prepares to confront these questions and investigate the murder, she knows she might become the latest knock-off.

©2022 Cordy Abbott (P)2022 Dreamscape Media

What a great story

I love listening to characters that are around my age. It’s a lot more fun than listening to books about those impossibly young characters that I can’t relate to anymore. Fun story great characters. Could we get a second book featuring Camille? She should get over herself and give that guy a chance. She needs a relationship in Addition to her dogs.

not for me

I don't like the characters and how no one but the lead character is smart and capable. The narrator doesn't help either.