Dyeing to Know

Celeste "e;Celie"e; Dupree inherited two things from her grandmother: a small, perpetually drafty storefront in Louisiana, and a family curse. The shop is The Bayou Bouffant, Celie's hair salon. The curse? She can see and talk to ghosts.Celie and her spectral salon crew—a glamorous 1920s flapper, a nosey 1950s housewife, and a grumpy Civil War soldier—are used to trading local gossip and historical secrets. But when Celie's bitter rival, Evangeline "e;Evie"e; Thibodeaux, is found dead behind the Bayou Bouffant, the gossip turns deadly.The lead investigator, Detective Miles Corbin, is a skeptical outsider who sees only motive and opportunity, immediately naming Celie as his prime suspect, thanks to the decades-old grudge between Evie and Celie's late grandmother.Now, Celie must clear her name, and her only reliable witnesses are dead. When the ghosts guide her to a forgotten boundary marker and a hidden path, they uncover a clue that points not to Celie, but to the charming newcomer in town, Elias "e;Eli"e; Vance, the handsome coffee shop owner she's been falling for.To catch a killer and save her business, Celie must untangle a modern murder plot from a century of bayou secrets before she becomes the killer's next spectral client.