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Patsy Pridgen is a lifelong resident of Eastern North Carolina, where she has absorbed the culture and dialects of this distinct part of the state. Married to her high school sweetheart since the Carter administration, she is a mother of three and grandmother of five. Patsy taught English in the community college for 27 years, handing in her red pen the semester she turned 60, the magical age when state employees with her time served qualify for a retirement check.

Patsy blogs at www.patsypridgen.com, where she comments on everything from being stuck in an Italian parking garage to planting cucumbers and squash in her shrub beds. In addition to Ms. Dee Ann Meets Murder, she is also the author of Life and Death in Narrow Creek, the second in ...more

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	Ms. Dee Ann Meets Murder (Narrow Creek Series, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life and Death in Narrow Creek (Narrow Creek, #2) 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Money and Murder in Narrow Creek (The Narrow Creek Series - Vol. 3 Book 1) 4.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Budapest at Last

My husband and I saw the Hungarian Parliament Building up close this time on our recent trip to Budapest. Hurray! Almost five years ago in the aftermath of Covid, we were denied entrance to Budapest and had only an across-the-Danube view from our riverboat.

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September 2021

The ornate Parliament Building, seat of Hungary’s National Assembly, is the largest building in the country and

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Head to Head - Honza Book 2

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