The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club: A Debutante Dropout Mystery (Debutante Dropout Mysteries)

wealthy Texas Widows Need Loving Too... ...which Is Why Bebe Kent Joined A Dating Service For Discriminating Seniors Soon After Relocating To The Swanky Belle Meade Retirement Community. Unfortunately, Bebe Didn't Live Long Enough To Meet Mr. Right. And Though Doctors Declared Her Death Totally Natural, Extravagant Blue-blooded Dallas Socialite Cissy Blevins Kendricks Believes Her Old Friend's Demise Was Hastened — And She's Ready To Check Herself Into Belle Meade Incognito To Prove It. cissy's Rebellious, Sometime-sleuthing Daughter, Andrea, Wants No Part Of Her Mother's Glittering Social Whirl — And She's Anything But Pleased To Have Cissy Muscle Her Way Into Andy's Milieu. She Has No Choice, However, But To Join Her Mom In Search Of The Truth — Especially When More Well-heeled Widows Start Turning Up Dead... publishers Weekly in The Delightful Third Installment In Mcbride's Debutante Dropout Mystery Series (blue Blood, Etc.), Andrea Kendricks, The Self-deprecating Texas Trust-fund Baby Whose Amateur Sleuthing Usually Takes Center Stage, Turns The Spotlight On Her Classy, Lovable 60-something Mother, Cissy. When Two Of Cissy's Friends Drop Dead, She Refuses To Believe It Was Natural Causes; Both Were Residents At Belle Meade, The Swankiest Retirement Community In Texas, And Cissy Suspects Something Funny's Afoot. Against Andrea's Wishes, Cissy Goes Undercover At Belle Meade, Determined To Prove That A Killer Exterminated Her Friends Before Their Expiration Date. Disguised In Rhinestones And Animal Prints, Cissy Uncovers Pending Lawsuits, Missing Medication And The Discreet Services Of An Exclusive Matchmaking Club For Discerning Women Over Sixty. Soon, Nearly Everyone At Belle Meade Is A Suspect, And Andrea Must Overcome Her Skepticism Before Her Mom Finds Out Too Much For Her Own Good. Chatty, Colorful And Tr S Texas, Mcbride's Latest Cozy Is A Pleasure. (feb.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. Andy Kendricks is back in the third sassy and irresistible installment in Susan McBride's Debutante Dropout series and this time she's teaming up with her high-society mama to catch a killer who's targeting rich, lonely widows. Wealthy Texas widows need loving too which is why Bebe Kent joined a dating service for "discriminating" seniors soon after relocating to the swanky Belle Meade retirement community. Unfortunately, Bebe didn't even live long enough to meet "Mr. Right." And though doctors declared her death totally natural, extravagant blue-blooded Dallas socialite Cissy Blevins Kendricks believes her old friend's demise was hastenedand she's ready to check herself into Belle Meade incognito to prove it. Cissy's rebellious, sometimes-sleuthing daughter, Andrea, wants no part of her mother's crazy schemesyet she's anything but pleased that Cissy is going off on her own, playing a highbrow Miss Marple. So she has no choice but to join her mom in search of the truthespecially when more well-heeled widows start turning up dead Dallas socialite Cissy Blevins Kendricks wants her sometime-sleuthing daughter Andrea to look into the mysterious death of her friend Bebe, who died soon after moving into a swanky retirement community. Andrea wants no part of her mother's social whirl, but she has no choice when more well-heeled widows turn up dead When her old friend, Bebe Kent, turns up dead shortly after relocating to the post Belle Meade retirement community, wealthy Dallas socialite Cissy Blevins Kendricks decides to go undercover at the facility to uncover the turth--despite the objections of her rebellious, sleuthing daughter, Andrea