Sweet and Deadly

The ending...

I was compleatly engrossed in this book until I got to the ending. The revelation of the murderer was shocking but the reason for the murders was disappointing. And there wasn't enough info regarding how the heroine came to her conclusion about the murderer.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Good book

This was a very enjoyable book, It had a good story line snd a quick pace, I would recommend it to my friends .

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1950s Deep South mystery

It has been six months since her parents died in a car crash and Catherine Linton has returned to Lowfield, Mississippi in the hopes that familiar surroundings will help her healing process along. She is angry because her parents were murdered when their car breaks were deliberately loosened and she wants vengeance for their deaths. She also knows in her heart that the culprit is someone from Lowfield responsible because her parents never locked their car or garage. --- One day while target shooting at the run down tenant house on her land, she sees the bloody body of a woman who is later identified as Leona Galles, who was her father¿s nurse more than three decades ago. The sheriff discovers evidence that she was a blackmailer but treats her homicide as a separate incident that isn¿t connected to the deaths of Catherine¿s parents. When a reporter dies while investigating the homicides, Catherine believes the same person killed all four people and in a dangerous moment sets out to prove it. --- Long before Charlene Harris wrote the Sookie Stackhouse tales, she wrote this mystery and it shows the talent that in future years will make her a superstar. Readers get a picture of living in a small town in the Deep South in the 1950s when everyone knows their neighbors and murder is an aberration. Even a quarter a century ago, Ms. Harris was a genius at creating characters who are easy to understand and of course the identity of the villain comes as quite a shock. This is a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining southern gothic mystery. --- Harriet Klausner

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Surprising

Not my favorite book but I definately had no idea who done it till the end and I was surprised.

Good Fast Read

Good fast read in the time before Sookie Stackhouse

ONE OF HER FIRST BOOKS

I thought it was a great book considering it was one of her first books and is written in third person. This book is over 20 years old and newspapers do everything electronically now-a-days. The book was also originally only 154 pages long. Catherine is not in first person like her others, but you still get a sense of who Catherine is. I found it to be a real page turner.

Great Story

This was a great story. You couldn't guess "who done it" until the end.

Not Her Best

Unfortunately, I did not find this book from Charlaine Harris as enjoyable as I have her other book series's (Harper Connelly, Sookie Stackhouse, etc.). I thought that this particular book was slow, uninformative, and a little confusing. I have loved all of her other books, but this particular one surprised in how confusing and lacking of information to the reader. Take care with this book and do not expect too much from it.

Not a bad read at all!

I bought this book to entertain me while flying to and from Seattle from the Midwest... It certainly kept my mind on the story and not on the clouds outside the window! Tightly woven, well written, and an easy summer read, I can definitely recommend this one to anyone needing some mystery in their lives.

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