That Old Black Magic (2014)

Mary Jane Clark's mystery, published by William Morrow in 2014, is a Piper Donovan novel. Piper, an aspiring actress and wedding-cake decorator, has barely arrived in New Orleans to work at the French Quarter bakery Boulangerie Bertrand when a murder starts talk of a "Hoodoo Killer". (Open Library)

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Timex (unidentified model): Nettie Rivers has kept house for the antique dealer Ellinore Duchamps for over thirty years and now does it unpaid, some of it on days her employer does not know she is there. On one of those days she crouches behind a pink azalea in the Duchampses' rear garden, knees aching, waiting for Miss Ellinore to leave, and glances impatiently at the Timex with the purple band that her grandchildren gave her for Christmas. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: She glanced impatiently at the Timex wristwatch with the purple band that her grandchildren had given her for Christmas and wondered what was keeping her employer. (Mary Jane Clark, That Old Black Magic, scan cataloged as William Morrow, 2014, p. 27; Internet Archive scan OCR)