Beginning ~ with bread and jam

Beginning

September 1952 ~ Isaac Moore sat on the porch steps, stuffing the last bit of bread and jam into his mouth.  Most days he walked home with his little sister, but today he was hungry, and he had run ahead.  Ada should have been home by now.

The Obituary Society ~ by Jessica L. Randall, 2014, cozy mystery, 196 pages

When Lila Moore inherits her grandfather's house, she finds herself in a small Midwestern town where margarine is never an acceptable substitution for butter, a coveted family recipe can serve as currency, and the friend who will take your darkest secrets to the grave will still never give you the secret to her prize-winning begonias.  Lila is charmed by the people of Auburn, from the blue-eyed lawyer with the southern drawl to the little old lady who unceasingly tries to set Lila up with her grandson.  But when spooky things begin to happen, Lila realizes some of her new friends are guarding a secret like it's a precious family heirloom.  It's a dangerous secret, and it has come back to haunt them.  Lila is caught in the middle, and her life may depend on uncovering it.  But even if she can, can she stay in Auburn when not everyone is what they seem, and even the house wants her gone?

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