Great read. If you like Kinsey Milhone or Stephanie Plum novels you'll enjoy this.

This would have been a great book had the author not continually pounded the theme of going home again into the readers head. It wasn't even in a subtle manner. It was literally spelling out how great it was to be back, how much the main character didn't realize she missed home, how she didn't notice things about home until she left and came back. It was in every other chapter. I just wanted to yell I get it already get over it. Other than that the story was pretty good. The characters were solid but the mystery was easy to figure out. She pretty much gives it away by casting the who-did-it character in a bad light through the whole book. It was nothing to write home about but decent debut novel and good time waster. It gets a 3 out of 5.

A debut mystery and winner of the St. Martin's Press Malice Domestic Contest. I enjoyed the South Carolina atmosphere; the dialogue is particularly good.

This was a good mystery with just enough quirky, but believable, characters to make it interesting.

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This was a fun book to read. I don't remember how it caught my atteention and I
had never heard of the author but aftr I read it I went and searched down the other books in the series. I have now read them all and am waiting for the newest one which will be coming out soon. This is a light, fluffy truly enjoyable read.

An excellent first book. Can't wait to get my hands on her second one. Cathy Pickens has great characters and writes a good story!

Attorney Avery Andrews left her BMW behind in Columbia, South Carolina, along with her job at a highpowered law firm. She's come back home to Dacs 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 lock factory to help with a messy environmental problem. But she's at Luna Lake because an old high-school classmate is trying to get her attention with a half-baked stunt, when divers find a car containing a corpse. 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.

First in the series featuring attorney Avery Andrews, this is a first novel for the author. Avery trades in her position at a highpowered law firm, along with her BMW, for a rented office space in her home town in Davus. Along with a local factory with a messy environmental problem, a dead body and an old high school classmate trying to get her attention, Avery finds a lot on her plate during her first few weeks back at home.

Good, quick, easy read.

A wonderful southern tale.

Very light read!

This was a very nice first novel

First in series of attorney Avery Andrews.

Loved this book.

A great debut mystery.

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