A Lethal Listing: Diana Rittenhouse Mystery 1/5

Realtor Diana Rittenhouse has survived a nasty divorce and her career has stalled, so she moves her art collection, her foul-mouthed parrot, and Viv, her testy elderly mother, from urban Philadelphia to rural North Carolina for a fresh start. Diana's mother had grown up in that part of North Carolina back when it was forest and farmland, before backhoes raped the red soil and turned an old culture upside down. For Viv, the move means coming home. for Diana, a confirmed Yankee, the change is...