Tragic Magic — Laura Childs

With a cunning killer in a haunted house, one crafty sleuth doesn't stand a ghost of a chance...

Carmela Bertrand, owner of Memory Mine scrap-booking shop, and her best friend Ava Gruiex, owner of Juju Voodoo, have a big project ahead of them. Melody Mayfeldt is converting a New Orleans mansion into a haunted house for tourists in need of a creepy fix. She needs Carmela's crafty touch to make Medusa Manor come to life -- and evoke the dead -- in time for an upcoming horror convention.

And what a horror! No sooner do they begin than Melody's body comes crashing through a tower window. And it was no accident. Someone wanted that local ghost hunter-turned-entrepreneur dead. Now Carmela's in some deep gumbo again as she tries to find out why, and stick it to the killer before he strikes again.