| International Standard Book Number |
9781250904256 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250904249 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250904242 hardcover
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| Personal Name |
Pitts, Delia, 1950- author.
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| Title Statement |
Death of an ex : the Vandy Myrick mysteries bk. 2 / Delia Pitts.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
310 pages ; 25 cm.
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| Series Statement |
Vandy Myrick mysteries ; bk. 02
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Delia Pitts expertly writes about family, race, class, and grief in her mysteries. Vandy Myrick captured readers' and critics' hearts in Trouble in Queenstown. She returns in Death of an Ex, where Vandy tries to piece together what brought her ex-husband's life to an end. Queenstown, New Jersey, feels big when you need help and tiny when you want privacy. For Vandy Myrick, that's both a blessing and a curse. Now that Vandy's back in "Q-Town," her services as her hometown's only Black woman private investigator have earned her more celebrity -- or notoriety -- than she figured. Keeping busy with work helps Vandy deal with the grief of losing her daughter, stitching the seams, cementing the gaps. The memories will always remain, and they come crashing back to the surface when her ex-husband, Phil Bolden, walks back into her life. Promising everything, returning home, restoring family. Until she answers her door to the news that Phil has been murdered. And Vandy decides Phil is now her client. It's hard to separate the Phil that Vandy knew from the one Queenstown did. She sees him -- and their daughter -- in Phil's son, who attends a prestigious local high school. She sees the layers of a complicated marriage with his wife. She sees all of Phil's various roles: parent, husband, businessman, philanthropist. But which role got him killed?"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Investigation Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Grief Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women private investigators Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American women Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Daughters Death Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
New Jersey Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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