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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. #5 in the “Southern Sisters” mystery series set in Birmingham, AL. Enjoyable read as always—Sister discovers she has a new daughter-in-law, a Barbie doll lookalike who married her son Ray, a dive boat owner and captain in Bora Bora. When a man no one claims to know is stabbed in the chest in their trailer with Sunshine’s grandma’s hog-butchering knife and Sunshine disappears, Sister and Mouse fear the worst and start poking around looking for clues, and of course end up in a heap o’ trouble as usual. I love this author’s voice and have people who remind me exactly of Sister and Mouse that I know. Always a pleasant visit. (  ) Spuddie | Sep 26, 2008 |  The Southern Sisters are at it again. Mary Alice is taken by surprise by the sudden appearance of Sunshine Dabbs, who has just married her youngest son, Ray, in Bora Bora. Wanting to do the right thing, she decides to get to know Sunshine's family and drags Patricia Anne along on a little visit. They are shocked and dismayed to find themselves at the end of a pig trail of a muddy dirt road in a compound of ratty old trailers surrounded by junk, washing machines and pit bulls. Thinking that their worst nightmares have come true and that Sister's baby boy is about to be taken to the cleaners by a gold-digger, the sisters follow Sunshine's grandmother, known to one and all as "Meemaw", into her tiny trailer where they literally fall over a dead body on the floor just inside the door. Things get more complicated when they discover that Sunshine is missing, and they have their hands just about full. It's another romp with the sisters, and as much a treat as eating Ben and Jerry's in your favorite jammies. ( ) madamejeanie | Sep 18, 2008 | Mouse and Sister just can't stay out of trouble. This time Sister gets a surprise daughter-in-law. Their worst fear is that the new in-laws are "common as turkey tracks" but things get worse when a body shows up impaled on the floor of one of the in-law's trailers. These books just get funnier and funnier. Even if you aren't a southerner, you can't help but laugh. (  ) TheLibraryhag | Nov 19, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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The sisters can't wait to get a look at Sunshine's family, and quite a look it turns out to be. As soon as Meemaw Turkett invites Mary Alice and Patricia Anne into her cozy trailer on the family compound they stumble over a corpse, and Meemaw's best hog butchering knife is stuck in its chest. Meemaw, a Cabbage Patch look-alike and Sunshine's grandmother, guardian, and the family matriarch is shocked to pieces and immediately summons the family to her trailer. Pawpaw, a lovable bearded grump has his own trailer, and their grown kids each enjoy a private home-away-from-home on the five-trailer compound.
The discovery of the mysterious body brings in Mary Alice's nemesis, good ol' boy Sheriff Reuse, who, she knows from her experience at the Skoot 'n' Boot, is nothing but trouble. Within minutes, the compound is strewn with a weird collection of friends, neighbors and relatives. There's Meemaw's spooky channeler, ready to give guidance as needed; Sunshine's jilted boyfriend skulking around; a bunch of dogs ready to attack...and Kerrigan, Sunshine's mostly absentee mama, who stars in the kind of video flicks that might even shock Mary Alice.
Patricia Anne can't imagine why Mary Alice is in such an uproar over her son Ray's new bride. Sunshine Dabbs is Ucute as can be," even if she is a bit unconventional, which should hardly come as a shock to Mary Alicc given that she's the one who raised her boy. But with all her motherly instincts, Mary Alice is sure that this sweet little blonde Barbie doll--who met her son in Bora Bora after she won the trip on Wheel of Fortune--thinks she's found herself a fortune in Ray's hefty wallet.The sisters can't wait to get a look at Sunshine's family, and quite a look it turns out to be. As soon as Meemaw Turkett invites Mary Alice and Patricia Anne into her cozy trailer on the family compound they stumble over a corpse, and Meemaw's best hog butchering knife is stuck in its chest. Meemaw, a Cabbage Patch look-alike and Sunshine's grandmother, guardian, and the family matriarch is shocked to pieces and immediately summons the family to her trailer. Pawpaw, a lovable bearded grump has his own trailer, and their grown kids each enjoy a private home-away-from-home on the five-trailer compound.
The discovery of the mysterious body brings in Mary Alice's nemesis, good ol' boy Sheriff Reuse, who, she knows from her experience at the Skoot 'n' Boot, is nothing but trouble. Within minutes, the compound is strewn with a weird collection of friends, neighbors and relatives. There's Meemaw's spooky channeler, ready to give guidance as needed; Sunshine's jilted boyfriend skulking around; a bunch of dogs ready to attack...and Kerrigan, Sunshine's mostly absentee mama, who stars in the kind of video flicks that might even shock Mary Alice.
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