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  “On their way!” the pink rat cried. “I can hear sirens now.”

  “Can somebody take over here?” the Good Samaritan gasped.

  A man in a white dinner jacket sprang into action. He employed a different technique. He bent Beau forward and thumped him hard on the back. But nothing seemed to be working. Beau’s eyes, open wide, but unseeing, looked like two boiled eggs. His bulbous body was as limp and unresponsive as a noodle.

  “I don’t think that technique is going to work,” Theodosia said in a quiet voice.

  Drayton heard her and frowned, his eyes going wide with alarm. “Why would you say that? What do you think is wrong with him?”

  “You see that white foam dribbling from his mouth?” Theodosia said. “You see his pale, almost waxy complexion? I think he’s ingested some sort of poison.”

  “Poison!” Doreen suddenly screamed at the top of her lungs. “Don’t drink the tea! The tea is poison!”

  Watch for the next Cackleberry Club Mystery

  Eggs Over Uneasy

  When the Kindred Players hold their first dress rehearsal for A Christmas Carol, something goes terribly wrong and the star of the show is murdered. Even though Suzanne and Toni were backstage, working the curtains and moving sets, they didn’t see a thing. Or did they play an unwitting role in this carefully staged tragedy?

  And be sure to catch the new Scrapbooking Mystery, also from Laura Childs and Berkley Prime Crime

  Crepe Factor

  Holidays in the French Quarter of New Orleans bring candlelight concerts, a Winter Market, and bloody blue murder. Who on earth stabbed a nasty restaurant critic who reviews for the webzine Glutton for Punishment? And can scrapbook maven Carmela catch this maniac before he kills again?

  Find out more about the author and her mysteries at laurachilds.com or become a friend on Facebook.

  Writing as Laura Childs, this author has brought you the New York Times bestselling Tea Shop Mysteries, Scrapbooking Mysteries, and Cackleberry Club Mysteries. Now, writing under her own name of Gerry Schmitt, she has created an entirely new series of sharp-edged thrillers.

  Little Girl Gone

  an Afton Tangler Thriller by Gerry Schmitt

  On a frozen night in an affluent Minneapolis neighborhood, a baby is abducted from her home after her babysitter is violently assaulted. The parents are frantic, the police are baffled, and, with the perpetrator already in the wind, the trail is getting colder by the second.

  As a family liaison officer with the Minneapolis Police Department, it’s Afton Tangler’s job to deal with the emotional aftermath of terrible crimes—but she’s never faced a case quite as brutal as this. Each development is more heartbreaking than the last and the only lead is a collection of seemingly unrelated clues.

  Available in hardcover from Berkley!

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