Title: Murder and Grits i
Author: Karen McSpade
Date: 2021
Publisher: Karen McSpade
Quote: "Everywhere something goes wrong in this town, there you are, Sharon."
Piper Sandstone, the detective from Hash Browns and Homicide, is undercover as a waitress at the Crabby Clam Cafe in Savory, Alabama. She's been adopted by the Delta Queens, a small close-knit group of older ladies who just happen to love playing detective. Magnetically drawn to them by her own passion for her original job, Piper might have been content to solve the mystery of where a stray show poodle has got to when they see a body being dragged out of the river. The dog turns up near where the body was found, a little later...and the women end up having to hot-wire a golf cart to stop a golfer drinking poisoned beer.
Packaged as a set of five books (each just long enough to be sold separately on Amazon), this "series" is about the length of one fast-moving traditional detective novel. It's a real series, though. More adventures lie ahead as Piper gets to know the handsome, single sheriff better.
Bonus treats in this novel do not include recipes, but do include a setting straight out of Southern Living with scrumptious food and lovely nature scenes galore, and the Sweet-Potato-Queens-inspired Delta Queens. If you like a relatively wholesome murder mystery with quick, clean murders and mostly wholesome language, you'll want this series...the whole series!
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