Drop Dead Red: 4 (Mercy Watts Mysteries)

Nothings easy in The Big Easy. Mercy Watts is barely back in St. Louis before her hometown suffers the worst crime in a century a mass murder at the Tulio Italian restaurant. This tragedy has nothing to do with Mercy and shes determined to keep it that way. No news. No gossip. No evidence. Mercy doesnt want to know. But there are some things she cant avoid her family and her friends.Her plan seems to be working. The murderer Kent Blankenship is caught but then Officer Joey Ameche shows up. He has a marker and hes calling it in much to Mercys dismay. His sister Donatellas husband and in-laws were killed at Tulio. Donatella and her children avoided the massacre in a way that the cops find suspicious. Mercy has plenty of suspicions too. How did Donatellas kids end up in the hospital just at the right time. Does she have a connection to the murderer? Would a mother infect her children with a deadly disease?The Tulio murders lead Mercy to her smallest criminal yet a tiny bacteria with huge potential for murder. She traces that nasty bugger to New Orleans her mothers hometown where the crimes keep adding up and the lies are thicker than Nanas gumbo.