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A brazen killer sparks Theodosia Browning’s sense of justice in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series.

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Favorite Quotes:

 

The head of Charleston PD’s Robbery-Homicide Division, Tidwell was a big bear of a man— large head, rounded shoulders, stomach the size of a weather balloon.

“You forget, he is a detective.” “But you’re a better one,” Delaine said. “Far more clever and devious.”

Lotter looked brown and shiny this morning. As if he’d just come from getting a spray tan. She thought about making a joke about him looking like a chocolate Easter bunny, then decided it would be rude and impolite.

For one thing, there’s my ex-wife Payton, rhymes with Bride of Satan.

Miss Dimple was plumpish, barely five feet tall, and had a cap of pink-tinged curls. She was crinkly and wrinkly and looked like your favorite old aunt who loved cats and knitting, except for the fact that Miss Dimple could tally a column of numbers in milliseconds and rattle off quarterly tax payments as if she had a computer chip in her brain.

Amber may have been tiny, but she ate like a dock worker on a ten-minute break.

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My Review:

 

I’m more than a bit tardy to this party, as this is the first time reading this clever scribbler, and this is the 30th installment in this series. Not only that, but she has penned some twenty-five other books as well. I need to pick up my pace as I’m missing out! The writing style was easy to follow and engaging, and the colorful descriptions of each new character kept me chortling into my wine goblet throughout perusal. And I never guessed the actual culprit; they weren’t even on my radar. Laura Childs is found treasure, and bonus – she included some tasty recipes at the end of the book.