Scrapbooking Mysteries · Book 1
Keepsake Crimes
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 286
- ISBN-13
- 9780425190746
- Type
- novel

About this book
Keepsake Crimes opens the Scrapbooking Mysteries in 2003, introducing Carmela Bertrand -- owner of the French Quarter scrapbooking shop Memory Mine -- and the amateur-sleuth habit of picking through evidence herself that will carry her through the series' next fifteen books. It runs 286 pages.
Its place in Scrapbooking Mysteries
Keepsake Crimes is book 1 in the Scrapbooking Mysteries series. It is followed by Photo Finished. See the full Scrapbooking Mysteries reading order.
Carmela Bertrand runs Memory Mine, a scrapbooking shop tucked into New Orleans' French Quarter, where she sells paper, ribbon and rubber stamps to a clientele of Garden District society ladies, tourists and Mardi Gras krewe members. Widowed young and fiercely independent, Carmela is the kind of amateur sleuth who can't walk past a body without picking through the evidence herself, usually alongside her best friend and shop assistant Ava Gruiteux, who runs the voodoo-and-antiques shop next door…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780425190746
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781587245909
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780754098775