Helpful Score: 3
This was really a great book! I thought it would be just another cozy, but was totally surprised! Likeable characters, and a wonderful plot that just when you think you know all the answers, the author throws you a curve ball!
Helpful Score: 2
Murder and other goings-on in a small East Texas town. Good feel for small-town life. Much more hard-edged than the author's "Biggie" series.
Helpful Score: 2
I really wanted to like this book, but just couldn't. It is set in my "neck of the woods" and much of it rang true. But there were too many characters and the time sequence was often off. Things happened much too fast or too slowly to be believable. Also someone would do something that took one day in the book and another character would talk about it being a longer time period. The ending was nothing that could have been predicted from the story line (I know sometimes that's good, but trust me it wasn't) and the title had nothing to do with the story.
Helpful Score: 1
First in series. I liked it.
Jackson Grant is a judge in tiny Post Oak Texas. He is rasing a teen-age daughter and dodging the match making of his neighbors. Things change when his shrewish sister-in-law is killed on her patio, and his brother is accused of the crime
I just read Cathy H.'s review before posting mine and all I really have to write is DITTO. She covered all of the points I would have- disconnected title, things happening way too fast, too many characters who had nothing to do with the storyline and were just thrown in there....but what annoyed me most was the ending- motive wasn't explained very clearly at all. As I was reading, I actually kind of liked the book, but after that ending I was annoyed that I'd wasted my time.
