This is a little different take on a Southern U.S. cozy mystery. It is set in a small town in northern South Carolina and is infused with the flavor of the rural, deep south. The heroine is a small town lawyer who had worked for a time as a law professor and is just getting used to small town politics and people again.
She gets embroiled in two potential murders when she finds a skeleton at a fun house at a county fair and then witnesses another victim falling off a cliff at a local falls on a family picnic. Both mysteries are woven effectively into the plot lines of the book. It is fun to get to know this character, Avery Andrews, and I'll enjoy getting to know her better in more editions of A Southern Fried Mystery series.
The author, Cathy Pickens, is an attorney and university professor in the law school at Queens University of Charlotte. She grew up in South Carolina, so she is very familiar with the territory.
Liz Nichols
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