Southern Fried Murder


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Can't Never Tell


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The discovery of a real skeleton inside a carnival fright-house mannequin and the seemingly accidental death of a local faculty wife during a picnic send attorney Avery Andrews on a quest to unravel a very cold homicide case and a recent murder.




Southern-Fried Homicide


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Southern Fried


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Laid off from her job with a big-city law firm, attorney Avery Andrews returns to the small southern town of her childhood to set up a new practice, but finds her efforts challenged by the murder of a client.




Hush My Mouth


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A spring day brings attorney Avery Andrews a new case. Fran French comes from Atlanta looking for her friend Neanna, who's more like a sister to her. Neanna went to Dacus looking for information on the unsolved murder of her aunt Wenda, and now she's missing. Twenty years earlier, Wenda's body was found posed on a memorial bench in the cemetery, her packed luggage at her feet, as if ready for a journey. When Neanna is found in her car, dead from a shot to the head, the police want to call it suicide. Fran insists it's impossible that Neanna killed herself and urges Avery to help her prove it. While Avery is sifting through Neanna's and Wenda's confused past and present, her office mate Melvin Bertram is befriended by a trio of ghost hunters who arrive in search of ectoplasm from the long-dead. The trio, christened "the ghosters" by Avery, hope to talk Melvin into investing in their TV pilot, oblivious to the fact that someone is baiting them with increasingly ridiculous ghost sightings. In no time at all, the ghosters are having altercations with the resident biker gang and with Avery's private investigator. Let no one say life in Camden County is uninteresting. In this latest in Cathy Pickens's Southern Fried Mystery series, Avery explores the nature of family—the ones we're born into and the ones we find—and learns about the haunting power of the past in the process. Hush My Mouth offers an original blend of humor and mystery, peppered with quirky characters and boasting a decidedly Southern flavor.




Southern Fried


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In the South, it's better when the food is fried and the secrets kept buried... After the dead body of a beloved Cottonwood resident is found tangled up in an electric fence, Sheriff Kenni Lowry has a hunch that somethin' ain't right. Her investigation heats up with a fierce cook-off competition, a euchre game where the intel is sweeter than the brownies, and a decades old family recipe that may just be the proof in the pudding. The icing on the cake: Kenni is fighting an attraction to her recently sworn-in deputy sheriff, and election season is hot on her tail. When the killer comes after who she holds most dear, even her poppa's ghostly guidance might not be enough to keep her and her own out of the frying pan.




Southern Fried


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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. 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 local factory to help with a messy environmental problem. But she's at Luna Lake when divers find a car containing a corpse because an old high school classmate is trying to get her attention with a half-baked stunt. 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.







Southern Fried Crime Notorious USA Box Set (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi)


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Evil lurks from the scorched earth of West Texas to the suffocating bayous of Mississippi ... where darkness is deadly and screams go unheard. "Southern Fried Crime" comprises harrowing crime tales from Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, all from the files of the New York Times-bestselling Notorious USA series. Meet homicidal lovers, murderous moms, enchanting black widows, hidden serial killers, and insane mass murderers as four of America's most beloved crime writers-Ron Franscell, Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris, and Stephanie Cook-lead you on a bizarre jaunt across the sweltering crimescape of the deadly South.




Southern Fried and Grief Stricken


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When a former classmate, known for their bad manners and out-sized ego, walks into Lucy's bakery and asks for a job days before their high school reunion, Lucy is a bit wary. Against her better judgement, she decides to hire this person. Lucy's a big believer in second chances and wants to see the best in this person. The good vibes from the reunion spreads to the whole town, and all is well until Lucy finds a local business owner, who was heavily involved in the reunion event, stone cold dead in their pawn shop. Lucy is terrified and puzzled by this latest murder in her small town. It seems a dark cloud has settled over her town as rumors abound about why the killer did it and when they did it. Eventually, the prime suspect is identified as the former classmate Lucy hired. Many people witnessed an altercation this person had with the deceased and they've been judged guilty in the court of public opinion. But Lucy knows there's more to this murder mystery than meets the eye. Will she piece together all the clues that seem to lead to the unlikeliest suspect and solve this case? Or will she allow her heart to overrule her head and become the killer's next victim? Book 11 in the Ivy Creek Cozy Mystery series! If you want to enjoy a quick light-hearted read, with an amateur female sleuth, mouth-watering culinary desserts and a gripping murder mystery, then you'll love Lucy Hale and all the quirky characters in Ivy Creek. ***No cliffhanger, swearing or graphic scenes!*** Treat yourself or a loved one to a copy of Southern Fried and Grief Stricken to discover how events unfold in this cozy murder mystery