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    Mother Gets a Lift
    Mother Gets a Lift
    Mother Gets a Lift
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    Mother Gets a Lift

    By Lesley A. Diehl

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    Angela Baker should be thrilled at having given birth to her third baby, but her mother always finds a way of spoiling the moment. This time Mom takes a cruise specializing in plastic surgery and ends up overboard, murdered and leaving Angela to identify the body. But is it Mom? Angela isn't certain but, then again...who would be? The woman has become unrecognizable as a result of too many little "procedures."

    Pushed by a detective determined to close the book on the murder, Angela does her own investigating and turns up more than one mother as well as the knife-wielding doctor from hell.

    A new short story from our Fingerprints line and the author of MURDER WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUntreed Reads
    Release dateMay 8, 2011
    ISBN9781611871067
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      Mother Gets a Lift - Lesley A. Diehl

      Mother Gets a Lift

      By Lesley A. Diehl

      Copyright 2011 by Lesley A. Diehl

      Cover Copyright 2011 by Dara England and Untreed Reads Publishing

      The author is hereby established as the sole holder of the copyright. Either the publisher (Untreed Reads) or author may enforce copyrights to the fullest extent.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold, reproduced or transmitted by any means in any form or given away to other people without specific permission from the author and/or publisher. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to the living or dead is entirely coincidental.

      Also by Lesley A. Diehl and Untreed Reads Publishing

      Murder with All the Trimmings

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      Mother Gets a Lift

      By Lesley A. Diehl

      I was panting my way through a contraction when my cell phone sang out, Cheeseburger in Paradise. The contraction ended, but the cell played on.

      I turned to my husband. Answer that, Dudley. I’m a little busy here.

      My name’s not Dudley. It’s Fred.

      Fine. Answer it anyway. Must be the scopolamine making me forget who you are.

      The doctor shook his head and made circling motions with his finger.

      Hey! I sat up and pointed at him. You were the one who gave me the drug.

      Fred or Dudley or whatever was the name of the man responsible for putting me in this position, turned his back on me and whispered into the phone.

      Give me that. I reached for the cell.

      Later. What’s-his-name, the man I loved right up until the last contraction, ignored me and continued to talk.

      I grabbed his arm. You’re supposed to be working with me, panting along, and cheering me on, not chatting on the phone. Where are my ice chips? I knew my tone was accusatory, but I was not cheerful about how slowly this delivery was going. The other two each only

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