A Mystery Bred in Buckhead — Patricia Sprinkle

SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY AND COLD-BLOODED MURDER

In genteel Atlanta society there are worse crimes than murder--such as missing Rippen Delacourt's annual Christmas party, a fifty-year Delaeourt tradition. As amateur sleuth Sheila Travis joins her family and cherished friends at Rip's gala, she never suspects that before the end of the evening, a long-missing, priceless manuscript will turn up in the hands of a disgruntled servant ... and dislodge enough closeted skeletons to fill Rip's guest list.

Someone doesn't want the unpublished novel to come to light--and that someone is willing to kill to make sure it doesn't. As Sheila stubbornly pursues the manuscript, she makes a deadly discovery: the someone who has already killed to keep the papers out of her hands is probably a relative or a lifelong friend ... who now is drawing a head on Sheila.