Tressed to kill : Southern beauty shop mystery series, book 1

Everyone at Violetta's salon -- including Grace Terhune and her mother, Violetta -- has their scissors at the ready for the influx of St. Elizabeth's high-society ladies. Of all the snobs getting their hair done for the town meeting, the worst is Constance DuBois, a woman heartless enough to ruin people's livelihoods on a whim. After a tinting accident leaves her hair with orange stripes, Constance vows to close down Violetta's. Hours later, she is found dead ... ** First in the brand-new Southern Beauty Shop mystery series St. Elizabeth, Georgia, offers charm, Southern hospitality-and, most recently, murder. When hairdresser Grace Terhune and her mother, Violetta, gussy up all the high-society ladies attending the town meeting, they find their snobbiest client dead. The police believe the mother-daughter duo did her in. But before things get snarled beyond repair, Grace sets out to clear their names. "When snooty Constance DuBois, after an unfortunate hair-tinting incident, threatens to close down their salon, and then is found dead, Grace and her mother Violetta stand accused of the crime, and, with a vast array of people working against them, must find a way to untangle the clues to prove their innocence."--NoveList