title: Deadly Notions (A Southern Sewing Circle Mystery)
author:  Elizabeth Lynn Casey 
description: <b>Elizabeth Lynn Casey</b>&#160;is the author of the bestselling Southern Sewing Circle Mysteries, including&#160;<i>Wedding Duress</i>,&#160;<i>Taken In</i>,&#160;<i>Remnants of Murder</i>, and&#160;<i>Let It Sew</i>.
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  ## How (Not) to Amuse a Muse
  
  
  Cindy Eller Book Ten
  
  
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  Elizabeth A. Reeves
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright
  
  
  No portion of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any
  print or electronic form without permission.
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and
  coincidental. Any resemblance between persons living and dead, establishments,
  events, or location is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright ©2016 Elizabeth A Reeves
  
  
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  ## Chapter One
  
  
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  The large pewter comb sat in the palm of my hand.
  
  
  I eyed the thing with a fair amount of suspicion. Well warranted, I thought,
  considering the use its former mistress—a siren—had put it to. The comb was my
  legacy of that brief encounter. It was enchanted. Wi