Hark! The Herald Angel Screamed: An Augusta Goodnight Mystery (with Heavenly Recipes)

Mignon F. Ballard

St. Martin's Publishing Group, Nov 11, 2008 - Fiction - 256 pages

It's Christmastime in the seemingly tranquil town of Stone's Throw, South Carolina, but amid all the caroling, cookies, and cheer, a murderer casts a not-so-jolly pall on the holiday season.

Augusta Goodnight, guardian angel, sometime sleuth, and welcome boarder with longtime resident Lucy Nan Pilgrim, comes to the aid of her friends when, as Lucy Nan is searching for the perfect Christmas tree on her grandmother's abandoned estate, a mysterious stranger plummets to his death from the mansion's balcony. Lucy Nan can't shake off childhood stories of the ghost of a girl who fell from the same spot long ago---has the ghost come back to haunt the living, or is there an all-too-human murderer at work?

Mysterious events are soon heating up faster than spiced punch left on the burner, and it will take Augusta's help, not to mention some celestial Southern cooking, for peace to be restored and Christmas lights to shine once again in the little town of Stone's Throw.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 10
• Section 3: 21
• Section 4: 30
• Section 5: 39
• Section 6: 48
• Section 7: 57
• Section 8: 66
• Section 9: 76
• Section 10: 85
• Section 11: 93
• Section 12: 102
• Section 13: 111
• Section 14: 119
• Section 15: 138
• Section 16: 147
• Section 17: 155
• Section 18: 172
• Section 19: 180
• Section 20: 189
• Section 21: 197
• Section 22: 214
• Section 23: 222
• Section 24: 232
• Section 25: 241

About the author

Mignon F. Ballard grew up in a small town in Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism. She is the author of six previous mysteries featuring angelic sleuth Augusta Goodnight, The Christmas Cottage, an inspirational fantasy, and The War in Sallie's Station, a novel about growing up in rural Georgia during World War II. She lives in Fort Mill, South Carolina, with her husband, Gene.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Hark! The Herald Angel Screamed: An Augusta Goodnight Mystery (with Heavenly Recipes); Volume 7 of Augusta Goodnight Mysteries
• Author: Mignon F. Ballard
• Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2008
• ISBN: 142994529X, 9781429945295
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / Holidays & Vacation; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / Paranormal; Fiction / Southern