Review
Grace Terhune is a divorced beautician who has moved back from Atlanta to her childhood hometown St. Elizabeth and currently works at her mother's Beauty Salon Violetta's. As with all small southern towns, everyone knows everybody and as per usual, there is the town Bitch who has pissed everyone off at some point. So, when she's murdered, it's not hard to find suspects.
Except that the police seem to think that it was Grace and Violetta, specifically Violetta. Grace's ex-husband Hank is part of the police force in St. Elizabeth and he is about as intelligent as a box of rocks, so he's no help in clearing her mother's name. Enter, Special Agent Dillon. He's a standard cop-type, nothing really jumps out except for his ability to observe. His silence often speaks volumes, however, it wasn't quite done to his advantage in this book. He wasn't in the story enough for the reader to get a gauge on what he's about.
I like him though and hope we get a little bit more of him in the next book. He's got something about him.
Grace has something to; a certain amount of tenacity that can often lead to TSTL syndrome. I hope this is remedied in the next book.
Overall this is decent first book and this series has potential if Grace stops running around doing dumb things like not calling for backup or letting the right people know what she's up to. I mean even Stephanie Plum is smarter.
Also, we need to get a bigger sense of presence from the side-characters. I knew Althea's story but I didn't necessarily care about how she felt about it because I didn't know enough about her.
Except that the police seem to think that it was Grace and Violetta, specifically Violetta. Grace's ex-husband Hank is part of the police force in St. Elizabeth and he is about as intelligent as a box of rocks, so he's no help in clearing her mother's name. Enter, Special Agent Dillon. He's a standard cop-type, nothing really jumps out except for his ability to observe. His silence often speaks volumes, however, it wasn't quite done to his advantage in this book. He wasn't in the story enough for the reader to get a gauge on what he's about.
I like him though and hope we get a little bit more of him in the next book. He's got something about him.
Grace has something to; a certain amount of tenacity that can often lead to TSTL syndrome. I hope this is remedied in the next book.
Overall this is decent first book and this series has potential if Grace stops running around doing dumb things like not calling for backup or letting the right people know what she's up to. I mean even Stephanie Plum is smarter.
Also, we need to get a bigger sense of presence from the side-characters. I knew Althea's story but I didn't necessarily care about how she felt about it because I didn't know enough about her.
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