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Part murder mystery, part feel-good comedy, a new novel from Fannie Flagg which bursts with Southern charm and good, old-fashioned wisdom. Meet Maggie Fortenberry. Her life seems pretty much perfect – she’s beautiful, charming and successful, just as you’d expect of a former Miss Alabama. But, in fact, Maggie is perfectly miserable. By now she should have been living in an elegant house with an adoring husband and 2.5 children. Instead, she makes a living selling that dream to others – though her estate agency business has lately been going from bad to worse. But then Maggie comes up with the perfect plan. And that’s when strange things start happening. As Maggie finds herself catapulted into one surprising discovery after another, she learns valuable lessons about the nature of friendship, the challenges of modern life and the dangers of impossible dreams. She also learns that everybody, dead or alive, has at least one little secret.