Greensboro News & Record
"Who do you read after Sue Grafton or Margaret Maron or Patricia Cornwell?...Tamar Myers!"


Greensboro News & Record
"Who do you read after Sue Grafton or Margaret Maron or Patricia Cornwell?...Tamar Myers!"


Rock Hill (S.C.) Herald
"An engaging read."


Greensboro News & Record
"Who do you read after Sue Grafton or Margaret Maron or Patricia Cornwell?...Tamar Myers!"


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"An engaging read." (Rock Hill (S.C.) Herald )


Book Description
Pickled...Then PottedAll that remains of Lula Mae Wiggins-who drowned in a bathtub of cheap champagne on New Year's Eve-now sits in an alleged Etruscan urn in Savannah, Georgia. Further north, at the Den of Antiquity antique shop in Charlotte, North Carolina, plucky proprietor Abigail Timberlake is astonished to learn that she is the sole inheitor of the Wiggins estate. Late Aunt Lula Mae was, after all, as distant a relative as kin can get. Arriving in picturesque Savannah, Abby makes a couple of startling discoveries. First, that Lula Mae's final resting pot is more American cheap than Italian antique. And second, that there was a very valuable 1793 one-cent piece taped to the inside lid. Perhaps a coin collection worth millions is hidden among the deceased's worldly possessions-making Lula's passoing more suspicious than orginally surmised. With the strange appearance of a voodoo preistess coupled with the disturbing disappearance of a loved one-and with nasty family skeletons tumbling from the trees like acorns-Abby needs to find her penny auntie's killer p.d.q...or she'll be up to her ashes in serious trouble!


About the Author
Tamar Meyers, whose parents were missionaires in the Belgian Congo, was born and lived the first 16 years of her life among a tribe of headhunters. She is of Amish background and now lives in Verona, Pennsylvania, where she is currnetly at work on her next novel.

FROM OUR EDITORS

Bookseller Reviews

Lula Mae Wiggins, who drowned in a champagne bath on New Year's Eve, now occupies a fake Etuscan turn in Savannah, Georgia. but the home of Lula Mae's ashes become less important to her beneficiary Abigail Timberlake than the real cause of her demise. Was Lula Mae sent to bubbly heaven because of a million-dollar coin collection? And what is the connection of a suddenly materializing voodoo princess to the Wiggins family secrets? Abby wanted just a little inheritance and she has a homicide on her hand.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Pickled...Then Potted

All that remains of Lula Mae Wiggins—who drowned in a bathtub of cheap champagne on New Year's Eve—now sits in an alleged Etruscan urn in Savannah, Georgia. Further north, at the Den of Antiquity antique shop in Charlotte, North Carolina, plucky proprietor Abigail Timberlake is astonished to learn that she is the sole inheitor of the Wiggins estate. Late Aunt Lula Mae was, after all, as distant a relative as kin can get.

Arriving in picturesque Savannah, Abby makes a couple of startling discoveries. First, that Lula Mae's final resting pot is more American cheap than Italian antique. And second, that there was a very valuable 1793 one-cent piece taped to the inside lid. Perhaps a coin collection worth millions is hidden among the deceased's worldly possessions-making Lula's passing more suspicious than originally surmised. With the strange appearance of a voodoo priestess coupled with the disturbing disappearance of a loved one-and with nasty family skeletons tumbling from the trees like acorns—Abby needs to find her penny auntie's killer p.d.q...or she'll be up to her ashes in serious trouble!

FROM THE CRITICS

Toby Bromberg - Romantic Times

A Penny Urned is an engaging read that will have you laughing out loud. Myers has created some delightfully offbeat characters that will win your heart and make you yearn for more of Abby￯﾿ﾽs misadventures.

Rock Hill (S.C.) Herald

An engaging read.

Greensboro News and Record