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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780425219058
ISBN number: 0425219054
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: January 02, 2008
Publishing house: Berkley
Age index: Young Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 409862
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Park the new Trailer Park mystery on your shelves.
Waitress Wanda Nell Culpepper is burning the candle at both ends, but she can't afford to pass up hefty tips from a bachelour party at the Kountry Kitchen. She's prepared to dodge a few roaming hands-but not to witness a murder.
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This is a wonderful series. I love the rich characters and the family interactions. Wanda Nell and her friends are so likeable and you get to reading and forget that they are fictional!
These folks are like some i know in Monteagle Tennessee!
This series just keeps getting better, and as it goes along just richer in the descriptions of family and surroundings.
I really recommend this series alot.
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Wanda Nell Culpepper is back! Like many, she's just trying to get by, but life always seems to interfere. This time, life presents itself in the form of another dead body - a local deputy drops dead at his own bachelour party in the Kountry Kitchen's banquet hall, and Wanda Nell is a witness! Despite the attendance of most of the local law enforcement (for the party, of course!), she is the only one with sense enough to call the acting sheriff because she has a strong suspicion that poison was involved in the death of the less-than-popular, crude-mouthed officer. When the bridegroom's own brother, quite drunk, presents Wanda Nell with an empty vial of unknown origins, Wanda Nell decides that the party's definitely over - before someone else falls flat on their face!
With two daughters and a grandson living with her, Wanda Nell is working two jobs just to keep ahead of the bills. It takes its toll, but that's just how life is and she just rolls with the punches. But when the hit is suspicion of murder, Wanda Nell has to make time to get answers where none are forthcoming. Wanda Nell's relationship with schoolteacher Jack is heating up; but so is her youngest daughter's temperature - and just when her older daughter Miranda seems to be taking two steps forward towards independence, something trips her up. Her best friend Mayrene does all she can to help, but Mayrene seems to finally have found a decent guy, as well, so all Wanda Nell can do is put one foot in front of the other and take things one day at a time - but will her common sense lead her into the path of a killer?
There's a lot going on in this light, well-written cozy and there are a lot of characters to keep up with, but Evans' manages to keep the stories straight and well-blended so that it all seems to come together in the end. Some of the sub-plots are easy to foresee, but one is never disappointed with the results. And to some, the lifestyle of the characters may seem over the top, but having grown up in a small southern town I was never thrown out of the story by something that didn't fit - more often I was reminded of those memories and years past.
I truly enjoyed my short journey with Wanda Nell, her children, and her friends and family. Unlike some cozies, Wanda Nell doesn't seem to plow forth without sense or thought to repercussions, making the reader wonder how she managed to live this long. Cozy readers will love this series - a light read with modern twists.
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Wanda and her family are a hoot. I like finding out how the family is coping with all their new troubles. Something is always going wrong in the trailer park. I enjoy "peeping in" on Wanda's family from time to time.
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Ok this is the very first in the series I have read, so it might be unfair of me to write this review- but I will anyway. Ok she lives in a trailer- she has 3 kids one is gay, one is easy, and one is young. What I took from the series is that it could be a really good series and I did like it. If you get annoyed easily about people that are poor and irresponsible don't read it because it kinda is going that direction, but it is a cute idea for a book series and will read the the subsequent one. The mystery was decent also!
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Wanda Nell Culpepper is the waitress serving the Trevor Blakely bachelour party at the Kountry Kitchen in Tullahoma, Mississippi. Rumors abound that Trevor's two wives died of suspicious "accidental" circumstances and that both of his spouses had large life insurance policies with him as the benefactor. At his gala, Trevor is a loudmouth, making ugly remarks about women especially his fiancée. When he reaches behind him, grabs a drink from a table and sips it; he suddenly dies.
The police assume he was poisoned with his younger brother Gerald as the prime suspect since he loves his future sister-in-law. While drunk at the party, Gerald picked up a vial containing a liquid. The police take him in for questioning. State Police officer Bill Warren heads the investigation; he believes Gerald did the MURDER OVER EASY crime as he had motive, means and opportunity. Bill tries to blackmail Wanda into signing a statement that she knows is false. She decides to conduct her own inquiry as Bill has convicted Gerald.
Life in a small Mississippi town especially in a trailer park turns interesting when the eccentrics are determined to help. In addition to her investigation, the heroine contends with a situation concerning her oldest daughter, come to terms with her feelings for Jack who wants to marry her, and keep his niece safe from a stalker. Wanda Nell assumes all this is a piece of cake as she is a waitress and deals daily with a lot worse. Character driven, BRING YOUR OWN POISON is an entertaining regional amateur sleuth.
Harriet Klausner
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