Name: The Blood Ballad

Author: Rett MacPherson
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Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Fiction

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9780312362225
0312362226
Genealogist and mother of three Torie O'Shea is out birding on the cliffs of the Mississippi River as part of New Kassell, Missouri's first ever bird-watching Olympics, when someone starts shooting at her and her partner. Disoriented and running for their lives, they stumble over an antique trunk and discover a badly beaten dead body stuffed inside.

Soon after this disturbing event, musicologist Glen Morgan shows up at the Kendall House, Torie's new textile museum, claiming to be Torie's cousin and to have proof that Torie's grandfather secretly may have written a number of popular songs for the Morgan Family Players, who were famous country music singers. Being a genealogist and the head of the local historical society, Torie doesn't appreciate anyone shaking up a family tree that she has spent years putting together, but Glen's old recordings are more than she can resist. After a little digging in the library and some serious snooping into the shooting, Torie starts to uncover secrets about her family and the town that even she didn't know.

Rett MacPherson's intricate plots and delightful small-town characters with long family histories hit all of the right notes in The Blood Ballad, the newest installment in her terrific Torie O'Shea series.
This book is part of the "Torie O'Shea" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"Died in the Wool"
First published in 2007
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"Thicker Than Water"
First published in 2005
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"Killing Cousins"
First published in 2002
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"A Misty Mourning"
First published in 2000
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"Family Skeletons"
First published in 1997
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"Dead Man Running"
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