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Pressed to Kill

Mandy Dyer seriesbook 8

"Dolores Johnson writes with wit and panache. I love her sense of humor."

—Diane Mott Davidson, author of Double Shot

In this latest installment of Dolores Johnson's beloved dry-cleaning sleuth series, Mandy Dyer notices the new and improved appearance of her customer Ardith Brewster. The young woman has met a new but mysterious boyfriend at Dyer Cleaners' open house party. When Ardith, a loan officer at a bank, turns up dead a couple days later, Mandy suspects the worst.

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The only clue she has to go on is a mention of the unknown boyfriend's sharp sense of style—so different from Ardith's suit-and-tie co-workers. Mandy's curiosity turns to horror when she finds that the victim in a similar killing had been in the cleaners shortly before her death, and what's more, that the two women bore a striking resemblance to each other.

With only clothes for clues and the less-than-reliable help of her incorrigible employee, Betty the Bag Lady, Mandy presses on with her investigation in a race to find the killer before he has a chance to close out her career permanently.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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