Thirty and a Half Excuses

In the third installment of the bestselling Rose Gardner Mystery series, the arrival of a televangelist in Henryetta, Arkansas, stirs up local tensions while Rose becomes embroiled in a suspicious death on her street. Although the police attribute the old lady's demise to natural causes, Rose, alongside her sharp-witted neighbor Mildred, believes there's more to the story. Amidst the chaos of opening her nursery and managing family and romantic entanglements, Rose must navigate a web of intrigue and explore the truth behind the unsettling events in her town.