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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780380780877
ISBN number: 0380780879
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: September 01, 1996
Publishing house: Avon
Release Date: January 01, 2001
Sale Popularity Level: 135103
Studio: Avon
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Murder on a Bad Hair Day
It's hard to believe practical, petite ex-schoolteacher Patricia Anne and amiable, ample-bodied, and outrageous Mary Alice are sisters, yet sibling rivalry has survived decades of good-natured disagreement about everything from husbands to hair color. No sooner do the Southern sisters discover a common interest in some local art, when they're arguing the artistic merits of some well-coiffured heads at a gallery opening. A few hours later, one of those pretty ladies ends up dead -- with not a hair out of place. The other shows up on Patricia Anne's doorstep dazed, disheveled, and telling a wild tale of a narrow escape from some deadly cuts. Now the sisters are once again combing for clues to catch a killer with a bizarre style in art -- and murder.
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This series of books were a wonderful delight to read, we her fans miss her dearly and hope she is writing the rest in heaven. Highly recommend, your day will be brighter for each book you read!
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Okay, if you want southern literature at its finest, most elite level, immediately go browse Faulkner. BUT, if you simply want a good read, in a southern setting, with all the vernacular and colloquialisms that make you feel like you're sipping iced tea on your grandmother's front porch, and you want to read the whole caboodle in one weekend or beach trip, then buy, buy, buy. Buy one book in the series for each vacation you plan to take this year.
Lucy Adams, author of If Mama Don't Laugh, It Ain't Funny
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This series is a MUST READ! These books are so funny and frantic you can't put them down. Get them all, read and reread till you laugh your socks off!
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Patricia Ann (Mouse) and Mary Alice (Sister) are sisters living in Birmingham, Alabama and though they love each other they have very little in common. That disparity in their personalities though is what makes these books so much fun, because their little spats and the tricks that they play on each other tend to drive the plot and are usually hilarious. Understanding the relationship between the two is therefore critical to enjoying this series so I would heartily suggest that you read these books in order since the very first book provides a lot of the history necessary for the reader to reach that understanding.
In this entry Sister convinces Mouse to attend an art showing featuring a group of "primitive" artists from the area. Much taken by the beauty of the art they find at the showing the sisters are very surprised the subsequent day when they learn of the death of the young owner of the gallery of an apparent heart attack. Apparent is the key word here and once again the sisters are drawn into the mystery, not by curiosity but by the involvement of one of Mouse's former students who turns to her former teacher for help. Being a retired teacher can apparently be a dangerous thing.
Most of the recurring characters are introduced in the very first book but they are filled out a little more in this entry and unlike the characters in some "cozy" mysteries these people are very believable. You may in fact find that you know some of these people, or someone very much like them, they just have different names and don't live in Birmingham. One new character in this book is Sister's overweight and very spoiled cat named Bubba. Bubba has his own heating pad on the kitchen counter where he comfortably lounges away the days. He just sits there and waits to be adored and Mary Alice provides that in plentiful doses. That is, when she isn't busy being a sex slave for Santa at the mall. No, I'm not going to explain that statement, you will just have to read the book.
The most pleasant thing about this book and this series is that you will find yourself laughing out loud but at the same time this author doesn't sink to the slapstick level that many other authors in this genre do. The characters are not only believable but you will learn to care about them and worry when they get hurt. You are also impressed by how caring these people are and it is that caring nature that leads these snooping sisters to the solution of the crimes involved in this book. Murder it seems is not the only game afoot in the iron city.
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I bought this book a year ago and just recently picked it up again to read--again! Oh, sure, I knew 'whodunit', but the story and the characters were just fun to revisit. I love the way Anne George portrays the two sisters. Her characters seem like neighbors and her writing is most entertaining. I won't donate this one to library just yet....
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