Dead Over Heels

US: Penguin Putnam Inc, 2010. Paperback. Good. What's the world coming to - when you can't relax with an ice-cold beverage in your own backyard without a body falling from the sky and landing in yo ur garden? Part-time librarian and frequent amateur investigator Roe Teagar den has good reason to ask herself this question when the remains of one of the Lawrenceton, Georgia police department's finest catapults into her flo wer bed one beautiful sunny morning. Roe's friend and bodyguard, the long-l egged, bikini-clad Angel Youngblood, is mowing the grass and Roe is reclini ng on a lounger when a small red-and-white plane flies low overhead and dro ps its unlikely debris more or less at Roe's feet. Roe's husband of two yea rs, wealthy businessman Martin Bartell, immediately wonders if the killer c hose his dumping place to send some kind of message to Roe. And the mystery deepens when two federal agents arrive in town to investigate the murder. It's only when Madeleine the cat provides a clue that Roe and Martin realiz e Roe herself may be in danger and that using Roe's yard as a temporary lan dfill for dead bodies was no accident.