Helpful Score: 5
Great read. If you like Kinsey Milhone or Stephanie Plum novels you'll enjoy this.
Helpful Score: 4
A debut mystery and winner of the St. Martin's Press Malice Domestic Contest. I enjoyed the South Carolina atmosphere; the dialogue is particularly good.
Helpful Score: 2
This was a good mystery with just enough quirky, but believable, characters to make it interesting.
Helpful Score: 1
An excellent first book. Can't wait to get my hands on her second one. Cathy Pickens has great characters and writes a good story!
Helpful Score: 1
This was a fun book to read. I don't remember how it caught my atteention and I
had never heard of the author but aftr I read it I went and searched down the other books in the series. I have now read them all and am waiting for the newest one which will be coming out soon. This is a light, fluffy truly enjoyable read.
had never heard of the author but aftr I read it I went and searched down the other books in the series. I have now read them all and am waiting for the newest one which will be coming out soon. This is a light, fluffy truly enjoyable read.
Helpful Score: 1
great little read, I very much enjoyed this book
Funny and a great mystery about the south
A great debut mystery.
From Picken's website -- "Southern Fried, winner of the 2003 St. Martin's Malice Domestic Award for Best New Traditional Mystery, features Avery Andrews, a 30-something female lawyer returning to her small Upstate South Carolina hometown after goading a lying witness and losing her job with a large defense firm. Back in Dacus, she finds herself embroiled with a decade-old murder, an environmental fraud, and her own outrageous family and friends."
This was an easy read. Cute story with a cast of interesting characters.
This was an easy read. Cute story with a cast of interesting characters.
First in the series featuring attorney Avery Andrews, this is a first novel for the author. Avery trades in her position at a highpowered law firm, along with her BMW, for a rented office space in her home town in Davus. Along with a local factory with a messy environmental problem, a dead body and an old high school classmate trying to get her attention, Avery finds a lot on her plate during her first few weeks back at home.
Good, quick, easy read.
Good, quick, easy read.
Loved this book.
First in series of attorney Avery Andrews.
Very light read!
This was a very nice first novel
great debut novel
A wonderful southern tale.
What's cooking in a small town? Murder... Go home at your own risk! Attorney Avery Andrews left her BMW behind in Columbia, South Carolina, along with her job at a high-powered law firm. She's come back home to Dacus where the vehicle of choice is a pickup truck with a dog chained in the back. Now a discovery of a dead body sweeps Avery into a red-hot case...and into the sizzling secrtets of small-town life, where some people get away with murder. Order this book & get another (my choice).
Mystery featuring big-city lawyer who moves back to her little South Carolina home town.
Attorney Avery Andrews left her BMW behind in Columbia, South Carolina, along with her job at a high-powered law firm. She's come back home to Dacus where the vehicle of choice is a pickup truck with a dog chained in the back. She wants time to rethink her career and her life. What she gets is a bossy great aunt drumming up clients and dragging her to social teas. That's how Avery ends up hired by a local factory to help with a messy environmental problem. But she's at Luna Lake because an old high school classmate is trying to get her attention with a half-baked stunt, when divers find a body containing a corpse.. This sweets Avery into a red-hot case--and into the sizzling secrets of small-town life, where some people get away with murder.
Attorney Avery Andrews left her BMW behind in Columbia, South Carolina, along with her job at a high powered law firm. She's come back home to Dacus where the vehicle of choice is a pick up truck with a dog chained in the back. Avery wants time to rethink her career and her life. Now the discover of a dead body sweeps her into a red hot case!
Attorney Avery Andrews left her BMW behind in Columbia, South Carolina, along with her job at a highpowered law firm. She's come back home to Dacs where the vehicle of choice is a pickup truck with a dog chained in the back. Avery wants time to rethink her career and her life. What she gets is a bossy great aunt drumming up clients and dragging her to social teas. That's how Avery ends up hired by a lock factory to help with a messy environmental problem. But she's at Luna Lake because an old high-school classmate is trying to get her attention with a half-baked stunt, when divers find a car containing a corpse. Now, the discovery of the dead body sweeps Avery into a red-hot case...and into the sizzling secrets of small-town life, where some people get away with murder.
