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Clean Sweep
Who knows more about what’s been swept under the carpet than the cleaning lady?
Forty-something Bonnie Marsden didn’t intend to become a professional charwoman, or an amateur detective. But after she gets swindled out of her job as loans officer at The Friendly Village Credit Union in Membertou County, Nova Scotia, she has to find some way to help pay the bills. Once she starts tidying other people’s houses, she starts stumbling across things that tweak her overabundant curiosity and sense of right and wrong – things like a five-year-old child lost in the woods, and a retired couple killed in a botched home invasion.
Bonnie’s husband, Big Ben Marsden, is skeptical about poking into the corners of other people’s lives. He lost his steady job two years ago and keeps up his half of the mortgage payments by cobbling together odd jobs, some of them so odd he hasn’t mentioned them to his wife. They have three children living away, and a very late surprise package still living at home. Invariably, Ben and the children get drawn into Bonnie’s attempts to suss out what’s going on under the surface.
Forty-something Bonnie Marsden didn’t intend to become a professional charwoman, or an amateur detective. But after she gets swindled out of her job as loans officer at The Friendly Village Credit Union in Membertou County, Nova Scotia, she has to find some way to help pay the bills. Once she starts tidying other people’s houses, she starts stumbling across things that tweak her overabundant curiosity and sense of right and wrong – things like a five-year-old child lost in the woods, and a retired couple killed in a botched home invasion.
Bonnie’s husband, Big Ben Marsden, is skeptical about poking into the corners of other people’s lives. He lost his steady job two years ago and keeps up his half of the mortgage payments by cobbling together odd jobs, some of them so odd he hasn’t mentioned them to his wife. They have three children living away, and a very late surprise package still living at home. Invariably, Ben and the children get drawn into Bonnie’s attempts to suss out what’s going on under the surface.
226 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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