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Book Review of Southern Fried

Southern Fried
Southern Fried
Author: Tonya Kappes
Book Type: Paperback
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Southern Fried is the second installment in the Kenni Lowry Mystery series set in Cottonwood, KY featuring Sheriff "Kendrick" Kenni Lowry and ghostly sidekick, her grandfather "Poppa". Having recently solved two murders in the sleepy town, Kenni is delighted to be investigating her new relationship with hunky State Reserve Officer, Finn Vincent.

Their date at the county fair is interrupted by the report of a body found at Petal Pushers, the local landscape and florist business owned by Myrna Savage. Myrna is more upset that Owen Godbey had the nerve to die in her prize winning tomatoes than she is at finding the body of her former employee. One look at Owen's body and Kenni knows that his death was not an accident, the wounds from an electric barbed wire fence around his ankles gives it away.

The police duo, along with Poppa and Kenni's dog Duke, set out to find the real killer and soon uncover that tensions between the Godbey family members runs deep. Owen is recently divorced from wife Sandy and is fighting with his brother and sister in law, Stanley and Inez over the cookbook left by family matriarch Rae Lynn.

A fast paced plotline with quirky characters, the second book in the series will often have you laughing aloud. Looking forward to more adventures with the Cottonwood gang.