Death of a Damn Yankee — Toni L.P. Kelner

To the folks of Byerly, carpetbaggers rank right up there in popularity with death and taxes. So when Northerners Marshall and Grace Saunders try to buy out the town's largest mill, it's no shock the proposed sale nearly causes a second Civil War. But Laura is surprised when the mill's president, Burt Walters, confidentially asks her to muckrake through the Saunders's backgrounds, even though Big Bill Walters, Burt's dad and controlling owner of the mill, wants to sell. Matters grow even more complicated when Marshall Saunders is found murdered and police name Laura's cousin Linwood as the number one suspect....