01877cam a2200265 i 4500 486267827 TxAuBib 20210219120000.0 181011s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018046203 9781250189035 hardcover $26.99 1250189039 hardcover $26.99 TxAuBib rda Perkins, S. C., (Stephanie C.) Murder once removed / S.C. Perkins. First edition. New York : Minotaur Books, 2019. 318 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier S.C. Perkins' Murder Once Removed is the captivating first mystery in the Ancestry Detective series, in which Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster deals with murders in both the past and present. Except for a good taco, genealogist Lucy Lancaster loves nothing more than tracking down her clients' long-dead ancestors, and her job has never been so exciting as when she discovers a daguerreotype photograph and a journal that prove Austin, Texas, billionaire Gus Halloran's great-great grandfather was murdered back in 1849. What's more, Lucy is able to tell Gus who was responsible for his ancestor's death. Partly, at least. Using clues from the journal, Lucy narrows the suspects down to two nineteenth-century Texans, one of whom is the ancestor of present-day U.S. senator Daniel Applewhite. But when Gus publicly outs the senator as the descendant of a murderer--with the accidental help of Lucy herself--and her former co-worker is murdered protecting the daguerreotype, Lucy will find that shaking the branches of some family trees proves them to be more twisted and dangerous than she ever thought possible. 20210219. Women genealogists Fiction.