Meet Mama: a true Southern woman with impeccable manners, sherbet-colored pantsuits, and four prior husbands, able to serve sweet tea and sidestep alligator attacks with equal aplomb. Mama's antics - especially her penchant for finding trouble - drive her daughters Mace, Maddie, and Marty to distraction. One night, while settling in to look for ex-beaus on COPS, Mace gets a frantic call from her mother. This time, the trouble is real: Mama found a body in the trunk of her turquoise convertible and the police think she's the ...
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Meet Mama: a true Southern woman with impeccable manners, sherbet-colored pantsuits, and four prior husbands, able to serve sweet tea and sidestep alligator attacks with equal aplomb. Mama's antics - especially her penchant for finding trouble - drive her daughters Mace, Maddie, and Marty to distraction. One night, while settling in to look for ex-beaus on COPS, Mace gets a frantic call from her mother. This time, the trouble is real: Mama found a body in the trunk of her turquoise convertible and the police think she's the killer. It doesn't help that the handsome detective assigned to the case seems determined to prove Mama's guilt or that the cowboy who broke Mace's heart shows up at the local Booze 'n' Breeze in the midst of the investigation. Before their mama lands in prison - just like an embarrassing lyric from a country-western song - Mace and her sisters must find the real culprit.
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This uber-hysterical mystery from first time novelist Deborah Sharp will keep you laughing and guessing until the final page. Sharp has mastered the lastest hybrid novel -the weird Florida/southern schtick combo novel that seemingly channels Hiassen and the Sweet Potato Queens at the same time.
Mace Bauer is happy with her life. Sure her mama and her sisters don't quite understand her and some of her old boyfriends have been profiled on America?s Most Wanted but no one said life wasn?t supposed to be interesting. Especially when she gets a call from Mama letting saying she?s in jail!
What ensues is a wild ride through Himmarshee meeting the crazy town folk, the hot new detective who is none too happy to learn to learn how different small town life is from Miami and the Bauer girls setting out to solve a murder or else ? Mama Does Time!