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Dead Ringer: A Laura Fleming Mystery Kindle Edition

by Toni L. P. Kelner (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A puzzling corpse stirs up trouble for a Boston woman visiting her Southern hometown in this cozy mystery by a New York Times–bestselling author.

A Burnette family gathering is no small affair, thanks to Laura Fleming’s ever-extending extended clan. Being back in Byerly, North Carolina, gives Laura and her scholarly husband a chance to catch up on gossip about old rivalries and rekindled romances. New love is in the air too, though uncharitable kinfolk speculate that cousin Thaddeous’s girlfriend, mill receptionist Joleen, has an ulterior motive for dating him.

Byerly’s mill has long been the town’s lifeblood, but when Laura arrives to try and fix Joleen’s faulty PC, she finds that death has just paid a visit. A stranger’s body lies on the office floor, and the victim bears a striking resemblance to Big Bill Walters. Did the mill’s founder have a doppelganger, or was someone in Byerly’s first family spreading wild oats? Laura isn’t planning to get involved—she’s busy trying to help Aunt Daphine, who’s being blackmailed over a decades-old secret. But the twin mysteries will have other deadly repercussions, unless Laura can see through a killer’s disguise . . .
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About the Author

Toni LP Kelner is an award-winning author of three mystery series: the eight Laura Fleming novels and related short stories; the Where Are They Now? series, which includes three novels and a forthcoming short story; and the Family Skeleton series, which consists of four books with a fifth forthcoming.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09GXTMCXT
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. (October 3, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 3, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 972 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 277 pages
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    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

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Over twenty years ago, Agatha award winner Toni L.P. Kelner moved up north, and after years of being told to write-what-you-know, discovered that what she knew about was the South and murder. Well, the murder part is mostly research, but she's a born-and-bred Southerner. Soon after her move she started writing the Laura Fleming mysteries about a North Carolinian transplanted to Massachusetts. (Wonder where she got that idea....)

After eight books and a number of short in that series, she tackled writing with a northern accent to produce the three books of the Where are they now? series about Tilda Harper, a Boston-based freelance entertainment reporter.

In the midst of that, she teamed up with NY bestseller Charlaine Harris--another Southerner--to co-edit urban fantasy anthologies. They've published five and GAMES CREATURES PLAY, their sixth, is due out in April 2014.

Kelner is also a prolific short story writer, and has published over two dozen for various anthologies and magazines. They're all mysteries, but feature vampires, witches, pirates, PIs, zombies, and demonic phone calls. Her stories have been nominated multiple times for the Agatha, the Anthony, the Macavity, and the Derringer, and she won the Agatha for "Sleeping With the Plush."

After two series under her own name, Kelner added the pen name Leigh Perry, and started publishing the Family Skeleton Mysteries. A SKELETON IN THE FAMILY, the first, was released in Sept. 2013, with THE SKELETON TAKES A BOW due out in Sept. 2014.

Kelner lives north of Boston with author/husband Stephen P. Kelner, two daughters, and two guinea pigs.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dead Ringer (A Laura Fleming Mystery Book 2) ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2014
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A reunion uncovers sinister secrets in the second Laura Fleming mystery. A Burnette family gathering is no small affair, thanks to Laura Fleming’s ever-extending extended clan. Being back in Byerly, North Carolina, gives Laura and her scholarly husband a chance to catch up on gossip about old rivalries and rekindled romances. Byerly’s mill has long been the town’s lifeblood, but when Laura arrives to try and fix Joleen’s faulty PC, she finds that death has just paid a visit. A stranger’s body lies on the office floor. Did the mill’s founder have a doppelganger, or was someone in Byerly’s first family spreading wild oats? Laura isn’t planning to get involved—she’s busy trying to help Aunt Daphine, who’s being blackmailed over a decades-old secret. But the twin mysteries will have other deadly repercussions, unless Laura can see through a killer’s disguise… A great book, I bought the first book just because I like to read books that have the same people in them, and found it s good book. Upon getting this one, I feel the writer has found the groove. It grab me and held on right until the end. Well worth the read.
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Chance Lee
4.0 out of 5 stars Blackmail & Extortion
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2012
I first picked up Toni L.P. Kelner's more recent "Where are They Now?" mysteries after reading some of her short stores in her anthologies with Charlaine Harris. Kelner's stories were always some of my favorite in the books, so I was eager for more. After blazing through the three WATN books, I needed more, so I tracked down these, which I believe are her first series.

This book was hard to find at an affordable price (right now, Amazon vendors are selling it at $5 + shipping!), so I read it out of order after getting a copy from paperbackswap.

Reading it after book 5 took some of the suspense out of it, because one of the suspects was in the third book, so I knew he didn't do it. That ended up being *so minor* that it didn't affect my enjoyment of the book at all. Plus, I noticed some foreshadowing for future books that I wouldn't have spotted if I hadn't read them first.

Now, this isn't the author's fault at all, but the stupid blurb on the back of the book revealed a plot point that happened on page 284. The book only has 300 pages in it. Unacceptable!

Still, this was a solid Laura Fleming mystery. Not as good as the later ones, but still very enjoyable. Laura and Richard are a great team, and I love following their small-town investigations, this time trying to solve the murder of a lookalike and help Aunt Daphine, who is being blackmailed. Plus, it was nice to see Aunt Nellie and Uncle Ruben being kind and helpful instead of the skeezy opportunists I thought they were from their brief descriptions in other books.
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Rudbeck
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun mystery read!
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2017
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If you love Laura Fleming's down-home mystery stories than here's a good for you.
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