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Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780451223258
ISBN number: 045122325X
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: February 05, 2008
Publishing house: Signet
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Georgia magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough has never believed her husband's threat to shackle her to her desk to keep her from 'meddling in murder.' But when Starr Knight, the taxidermist's daughter, is found dead, that's just what Joe Riddley does, despite Mac's protest that she has no intention of getting involved.
She just has one question: why did the flamboyant young mother dress so sedately on the day she died? Then a second young woman is murdered, also dressed characteristically. Now Mac's got to ask-whose closet will be raided next?
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No stars or four? Patricia Sprinkle's work was described as 'humorous'but it's Charlie Chaplin-style humour-with-pathos, which I hate. There is some good witty dialogue mixed with some very implausible situations, eg husband tying narrator to desk to keep her out of trouble, and scenes like 'who'll tell little 4-year-old Bradley that he doesn't have a mummy any more'. Not for me, but well written if you like this style.
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The tenth in the cozy "Thoroughly Southern Mystery" series, this one has an especially searing climax.
Magistrate MacLaren (Mac) Yarbrough is working in the family business (Yarbrough Feed, Seed and Nursery) when her husband Joe Riddley comes in and handcuffs her to her huge oak desk-to prevent her from meddling in another murder, he claims.
But on the surface the death of Starr Knight just seems a tragic car accident. Later the medical investigation shows her death to be caused by a particularly savage beating.
The young Starr had lived a wild life, drinking and drugs as a teen, then a pregnancy that straightened her out and sent her home to live with her father, Trevor, and her toddler, Bradley. Lately she had left home, lost Bradley to foster care, and become involved with drugs again, though the talk was that she had contacted the DEA to turn in her suppliers. Had they killed her?
Mac and Joe help the police a bit in the investigation into Starr's death. In a small town like Hopemore, Georgia, everyone knows everyone else, and life stories are common knowledge. Over the ensuing months good forensic work discovers the bat used to beat her and links fingerprints on her body and the bat to two nasty meth-addicted druggies.
Then another young woman is found dead, this one Trevor Knight's assistant in his taxidermy business, Robin. She had left her two young daughters alone in her house and gone off in a totally atypical outfit, a blue cocktail dress, to the motel where the taxidermy convention was being held in Hopemore. She was found in an elevator with a broken neck.
Author Sprinkle's MacLaren is a wonderfully kind and caring grandmotherly woman who works to help find solutions to the problems in the lives of the people around her. The changing economic climate in Hope County is chronicled as well, as the big chain stores and restaurants move into the area, following the wave of retirees moving to a warmer clime. Small-town business is suffering, and the whole community is affected by the changes.
Armchair Interviews says: Patricia Sprinkle writes a very good cozy mystery.
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This was the very first book that I have read by this author, and plan to go back and read the others of this series. In reading the reviews by others let me just say to the person who was upset by the handcuff scenario that this book is a work of FICTION. As with other mystery series if there were as many murders in small towns as written in these books, no one would want to live in small towns.
Since I have started this series with the newest book first, it almost sounds likes Ms. Sprinkle is ending the series with this book. I hope not as she is a very good writer, and I enjoyed reading about Mac and her family and friends
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This was my very first Patricia Sprinkle cozy--and it won't be my last. I loved the judge and found her husband to be another great character! Loved that the heroine, while smart and tough, is also capable of getting testy and therefore real, and downright silly. Sprinkle has an amazing gift for bringing her minor characters into 3 vivid dimensions. Her brief description of little loudmouth, Natalie was so good and true that I could absolutely SEE that character and hear her whiny little GA voice. That is talent! If you like characters and a reasonably strong plot, well, here ya go,
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I grew up in a small town like Hopemore and each new book is like going home. It brings us back to a time when life was simpler. But changes comes to all places even Hopemore. With a superstore moving in and traffic diverted I fear Hopemore will suffer the fate of many towns across the U.S.A.. I loved !!!! this book. It was the best in the series and I hope the series does not end here. For detractors of this book, if you think Mclaren is in danger from Joe Ridley you are wrong. He has more to worry about than she does. These two have gone through many years of marriage and survived his head injury and her many escapades. She is by far the stronger and tougher of the two. A true steel magnolia. I cannot wait for more southern mysteries from Patricia Sprinkle.
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