Book description
“On this nice July morning in Parkland, North Carolina, the office of
Madeline Maclin Investigations might as well have been an Egyptian tomb:
hot, dusty, and dead.” It doesnt help that her landlord Reid Kent, does
a brisk business…and briskly hits on Mac to rejoin his agency. He
maintains no one will hire a former Miss Parkland as a serious PI. Mac
has been friends forever with Jerry Fairweather. Jerry claims to be
psychic and is, unlike his two brothers, somewhat screwy. And he refuses
to claim a share in the Fairweather fortune. But he shares some good
news with Mac-his Uncle Val has died and left him a house. The two
friends drive out to Celosia, a half hour away, where they discover a
local beauty pageant in trouble and a house just perfect for setting up
shop. A Psychic Shop. The arrival of lawyer Olivia, Jerry's shark-like
girlfriend, rouses both Mac's interest in the mystery at the pageant and
the one in her own heart. And then comes the first murder…. A Case of
Imagination is Jane Tesh's playful first mystery, the start of a series
by an author who admires Terry Pratchett, Martha Grimes, Carl Hiaasen,
and P. G. Wodehouse. Jane Tesh lives and writes in Mt. Airy, North
Carolina. A media specialist/librarian for grades K-6 for 30 years, she
retired to write and exercise her creative side. A rehearsal pianist and
sometime orchestra conductor for community theater, she also plays the
violin, and is a certified kick-boxing instructor.
