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Texas Toast
Between raising his precocious teenage daughter and dodging the matchmaking of the local busybodies, Jackson Crain devotes himself to the curious peccadilloes of being a judge in tiny Post Oak, Texas. Aside from the occasional brawl or beating, hard crime here is rare. That changes when Dora Hughes, Jackson's shrewish sister-in-law, is bludgeoned and strangled to death while sunbathing on her patio.
Dora's henpecked husband, Ron, is accused of the crime. The man had been carrying on with a perky local waitress, and had demanded a divorce just before Dora died. But the case evolves into something decidedly sinister when a second body, a teenage girl, is found in a cornfield. And when Jackson connects both victims to a beautiful, exotic newcomer to Post Oak -- a woman to whom he is dangerously attracted -- the hunt for a clever killer exposes shattering secrets guaranteed to leave even the local gossips speechless.
Between raising his precocious teenage daughter and dodging the matchmaking of the local busybodies, Jackson Crain devotes himself to the curious peccadilloes of being a judge in tiny Post Oak, Texas. Aside from the occasional brawl or beating, hard crime here is rare. That changes when Dora Hughes, Jackson's shrewish sister-in-law, is bludgeoned and strangled to death while sunbathing on her patio.
Dora's henpecked husband, Ron, is accused of the crime. The man had been carrying on with a perky local waitress, and had demanded a divorce just before Dora died. But the case evolves into something decidedly sinister when a second body, a teenage girl, is found in a cornfield. And when Jackson connects both victims to a beautiful, exotic newcomer to Post Oak -- a woman to whom he is dangerously attracted -- the hunt for a clever killer exposes shattering secrets guaranteed to leave even the local gossips speechless.
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2 member(s) found this review helpful.
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!
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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.
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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.
Brenda H. (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
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