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Keepsake Crimes

ISBN: 0425190749

Title: Keepsake Crimes

Author: Laura Childs

KDL Description:

Scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand turns sleuth when her estranged husband is accused of murdering a powerful New Orleans businessman, and amidst clippings, patterns, and pictures finds a clue that will prove his innocence.
Scrapbooking Series

Amazon Description:

From Laura Childs, author of the popular Tea Shop Mysteries, comes scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand, who delights her customers with the sophisticated looks she achieves with their scrapbooks. But among her client’s keepsakes she finds a tip of her own — about a murder…

On the fringe of New Orleans’s French Quarter sits Carmela Bertrand’s little scrapbooking shop, Memory Mine. Business is booming and life is cozy. But when one of the city’s elite dies during Mardi Gras, the police tag Carmela’s estranged husband as their number one murder suspect. Even though the memory of how he scrapped their marriage hasn’t faded, Carmela doesn’t think that Shamus is cut out to be a killer. She’s an expert at framing things herself — and doesn’t like the pattern being laid out by a disreputable detective and a shady newspaper columnist. Then, as Shamus begs for help, Carmela uncovers an important clue in a most unlikely place — one of her customer’s scrapbooks.