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Malmont, Valerie Skuse was born on December 20, 1937 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Paul Howard and Margaret Spalding (Hall) Skuse.
(The death of a man during a small town's Civil War reenac...)
The death of a man during a small town's Civil War reenactment leaves Tori Miracle searching for the actor who crossed the bridge separating play war from the real thing. Original. Title: Death, Guns, and Sticky Buns Author: Malmont, Valerie S. Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 2000/04/01 Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress:
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(Lickin Creek, Pennsylvania, is light-years from New York ...)
Lickin Creek, Pennsylvania, is light-years from New York City, where Tori Miracle earned her first fifteen minutes of fame as a novelist. Now Tori and her two cats have come to Lickin Creek to visit her friend Alice-Ann--and to attend the town's annual Rose Rent festival honoring Alice-Ann's obnoxious husband, Richard. Generations earlier, Richard's ancestor, worried about the state of his soul, allowed churches to build on his land in exchange for one red rose as rent. Now the town has made it an annual celebration. But Alice-Ann is celebrating something else: She's about to divorce Richard--until Richard turns up dead, his body adorned by a single red rose. Now Tori is being pulled into a homicide investigation spearheaded by an unnervingly handsome cop, crowded with aristocrats, wanna-bes, and some ghostly presences of the past. In fact, all of Lickin Creek, from its historic castle to its labyrinth of Civil War-era tunnels, is haunted by secrets, including the one that won't stay dead and buried--and hasn't stopped killing yet. . . .
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(Murder in the holiday spirit It was Christmas in Lickin ...)
Murder in the holiday spirit It was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring..The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Christmas lights. A social worker wouldn't let a living baby be part of the town's living crèche. And some ladies were stretching the limits of their leotards in a pageant called the Nutcracker. All in all, former New Yorker Tori Miracle was basking in the quaint glow of her adopted Pennsylvania town, when suddenly the season went sour. A boy was missing. A thirty-year-old mystery resurfaced. And now two people have been murdered. With her boyfriend--the town police chief--out of town, Tori must help his befuddled replacement. And what she finds out, or should be finding out, is making Tori the next target--of someone only in the mood for murder....
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(Tori Miracle has her cats, her sexiest nightgown, and the...)
Tori Miracle has her cats, her sexiest nightgown, and the highest hopes a jaded New Yorker dares have as she sets off for Lickin Creek, Pennsylvania. Chosen as a celebrity judge of the annual Old Fashioned Apple Butter Festival, Tori is really looking forward to spending quality time with police chief Garnet Gochenauer. Then the dying begins. The first victim was poisoned. Or so Tori is told by an eccentric herbalist who lives outside of town. When Tori discovers the next body, skeletons start coming out of closets. Now the good housewives of Lickin Creek are readying their recipes and Tori is sleeping with her cats in her coziest nightwear. Because she and her chief of police aren't looking for a night of passion anymore, they're looking for a killer. . . the one who has a recipe for murder--and a Miracle on his mind. . . .
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Malmont, Valerie Skuse was born on December 20, 1937 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Paul Howard and Margaret Spalding (Hall) Skuse.
Bachelor, University New Mexico, 1961. Master of Library Science, University Washington, 1964.
Library, Arlington (Virginia) County Library. System, 1964-1965; head library, United States Air Force Special Superior vena cava syndrome Library., Taipei Air Station, 1971-1972; head library, United States Navy Special Superior vena cava syndrome Library., Taipei, 1972-1974; library, Chambersburg (Pennsylvania) Area School District, 1978-1983; owner, Valerie Malmont Antiques and Collectibles, since 1980. Speaker various organizations.
(The death of a man during a small town's Civil War reenac...)
(Tori Miracle has her cats, her sexiest nightgown, and the...)
(Lickin Creek, Pennsylvania, is light-years from New York ...)
(Murder in the holiday spirit It was Christmas in Lickin ...)
Board of directors, treasurer Cumberland Valley LINKS, Mont Alto, Pennsylvania, since 1992. Member American Association of University Women (legislation chair, branch president, Outstanding Woman 1987), Daughters of the American Revolution, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, American Crime Writers League, Romance Writers of America, Beta Phi Museum.
Married Bruce S. Malmont, December 19, 1959. Children: Paul Howard, Andrea Glynis, Jason Bruce.