"It's not just politics as usual when genealogists Sophreena McClure and Esme Sabatier are hire dto create scapbook tributes for a former North Carolina senator's intricate family heritage and illustrtious career. Sifting through the ashes of his past, they discover his baby brother perished in a suspicious fire that burned down his childhood home. Still saddened by his late parents' steadfast conviction--against all evidence to the contrary--that the fire was cover for a kidnapping, the senator wants this rumor put to rest once and for all. So with only snapshots of the evidence, Soph and Esme are determined to smother all speculation about the decades-old tragedy. The party lines are drawn when a shocking present-day murder turns up new candidates for the crime-- including some suspects from the senator's inner circle. Are the sleuthing scrapbookers trying to pin down a killer who is as adept at making laws as breaking them?''--page [4] of cover.
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