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The first mystery in the Ancestry Detective series by S.C. Perkins, in which a Texas genealogist deals with murders in the past and present."A terrific series debut!" -- BookPage on Murder Once RemovedExcept 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 proving 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. Or so it seems. . . "A clever page-turner ... from the first heart-stopping line to the final conclusion." -- Carolyn Haines, USA Today bestselling author 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.