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Overview

It’s another Fourth of July in Dacus, South Carolina, and the carnival fright house isn’t impressing Avery’s seven-year-old niece Emma. That is, until the leg falls off a mannequin posed with a chainsaw. Then even Emma recognizes the human leg bone protruding from the wizened limb. The next day, Avery joins her sister at a college picnic up on the mountain, but the festivities are interrupted when one of the faculty wives disappears off the waterfall. Now, between the owners of the fright house needing help in reopening for the high season and the new widower’s even newer lady friend seeking legal protection of his financial interests, Avery has her work cut out for her. She finds herself following the money as she pieces together a very cold case—and a very cold-blooded murder…

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Summertime and the living is frightful for South Carolina lawyer Avery Andrews in Pickens's fifth Southern Fried mystery, a less successful entry than the previous one, Hush My Mouth (2008). First, there's the chain-saw wielding mannequin her niece sees in a fair's chamber of horrors that turns out to be a mummified corpse. Next, a pre-Fourth of July picnic at Bow Falls turns deadly when Rinda Reimann, a professor's wife, falls into the falls. When Rinda's husband is too distraught to cope, an overprotective friend asks Avery to file an insurance claim on the professor's behalf. Avery's suspicions about Rinda's "accident" deepen after the postmortem raises some serious questions. While Avery's sassy assistant, Shamanique, easily tracks down the carny corpse's identity, the effort to discover who pushed Rinda to a watery grave gets bogged down in too much financial detail. Cozy readers looking for escape from reality may want to skip the concluding tips on how to avoid consumer fraud. (Feb.)

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A small-town lawyer follows the money and finds a murderer. Returning to her roots in Dacus, S.C., lawyer Avery Andrews never imagines it will become a hotbed of murder. When she takes her niece Emma to a local carnival, they discover a mummified corpse in the fright house. Next day they join a family picnic, where Rinda Reimann, a newly returned Dacus native, takes a fatal plunge from Bow Falls. Aside from Avery's relatives, the picnickers are mostly colleagues of her brother-in-law, a college professor. It turns out Rinda was having an affair with her former high-school squeeze. Her husband Rog, the proverbial absent-minded professor, immediately falls prey to a pushy female colleague who seems indecently eager for him to get his hands on Rinda's insurance money. Avery's only pleasant experience is her meeting and date with charming Professor Spencer Munn, who has a lucrative sideline in money management. The carnies hire Avery to discover the identity of their mummy, and Rog, seemingly unaware that he's suspect No. 1, asks for help getting his affairs in order. After endless complications and conversations, a blackberry bramble provides a clue that closes the case. Enough Southern eccentrics to satisfy the most devoted fans of Avery (Hush My Mouth, 2008, etc.), but this time the plot is straightforward and not obscured by too much kitsch. Agent: Christina Hogrebe/Jane Rotrosen Agency

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312354459
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 12/1/2009
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 311,650
  • Series: Southern Fried Mystery Series , #5
  • Product dimensions: 4.00 (w) x 6.70 (h) x 0.80 (d)

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Cathy Pickens

CATHY PICKENS, an attorney who specializes in complex civil litigation, currently teaches law and ethics at the McColl School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte. She grew up in South Carolina, where her family has lived for generations. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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  • Posted January 30, 2009

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    The latest Avery Andrews legal cozy is a fun regional tale

    In Dacus, South Carolina, seven year old Emma is somewhat bored while wandering around the fair fright house with her Aunt Avery while two teenage couples are also touring the place. However, the child¿s ennui ends when the leg of a mannequin with a chainsaw separates; she realizes immediately as does her aunt that the limb is that of a human remain. The fright house is closed as the cops investigate the mannequin that turns out to be a mummified human.

    The next day, Emma¿s parents and Aunt Avery are attending a faculty picnic near Bow Falls when the wife of Professor Reimann falls into the waterfall. While the Fair¿s owners have retained attorney Avery to help them reopen for the July Fourth holiday weekend, a friend of the professor asks her to file a life insurance claim since the grieving widower is too upset to do so. However, Avery also wants to know who the corpse in the fright house is though she leaves that to her assistant Shamanique to explore and who pushed Rinda into the falls.

    The latest Avery Andrews legal cozy is a fun regional tale filled with some of the down home humor expected of a Cathy Pickens novel; starting with the two teen couples Amazonian girlfriends knocking the leg off the mannequin. The story line is not quite as fast and breezy as previous entries like HUSH MY MOUTH or HOG WILD but in some ways is much deeper as the audience obtains a profound look at financial fraud that is critical to the plot leading to a cautionary afterward.

    Harriet Klausner

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