What She Left Behind: A Laurel Gap Cozy Mystery

A house being split down the middle. Nine days to write down everything in it. And on the ninth day, one of them is dead.Delia Tolliver clears out estates for a living, and the dead are the easy part. A dead person has stopped wanting things.So when the Clerk of Court appoints her to inventory the Buckner divorce - every room, every drawer, valued and photographed for a judge - she takes it knowing exactly what it is. Thirty-four years of marriage, two people still living under the same roof because leaving first is the same as losing, and Delia in the middle with a clipboard.Rhonda Buckner meets her in the driveway with a four-page list in her own handwriting. She is funny, unembarrassed, and she has asked for this.Nine days later she is found in her own garage, and the county calls it an accident.Delia has eleven hundred photographs of that house. Two things on her list are gone - a tractor and a quilt - and both of them turn out to have ordinary, disappointing explanations. Nothing is missing.Which is when she works out that she has been asking the wrong question for a month.Because the only thing anybody can do to an object is not always take it away.A warm, wry Blue Ridge mystery with no gore, no swearing, and a solve you can catch if you're paying attention.Book Two of The Laurel Gap Mysteries. Each book is a complete mystery - no cliffhangers.