Scrapbooking Mysteries · Book 1

Keepsake Crimes

by Laura Childs

Published
1 January 2003
Pages
286
ISBN-13
9780425190746
Type
novel

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Cover of Keepsake Crimes

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…

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