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Candy, Corpses, and Classified Ads

Author and small town news reporter Molly Lawson tries to find who killed her husband and buried him outside her house while her ex-lover JT McCord —the cop who's investigating the murder—closes in on her.

Molly Lawford has a lousy track record with men. Twenty years ago, JT McCord jilted her. Molly survived that humiliation and married twice but her first husband died after two weeks of marriage and her second husband ran off with a hairdresser. Molly decided to give up on romance for good and settle down in Tangle Butte, Minnesota, as a small town reporter.

Then JT McCord comes back to town as the Chief of Police. His first official act of business is to investigate how Molly's thought-to-be-vanished husband turned up as a corpse next to the septic tank in Molly's back yard, discovered there when a neighbor's marauding pig dug him up.

Molly sets out to solve that mystery with the help of Mr. Sex's Ladies (her book group), her newspaper editor, Tarot reader and some color-sorted M&Ms. While helping JT unravel the facts, Molly's resolve about keeping him at bay starts to unravel, too. If she can survive a couple of attempts on her life (and maybe arm wrestle a couple of town hussies for JT's affection) she might find the love of her life—all because of a pig and some plumbing.

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