Magistrate MacLaren "Mac" Yarbrough is happily minding her
own business, working on accounts for the feed store/nursery
that she co-owns with her husband, Joe Riddley Yarbrough.
When Joe Riddley cuffs her ankle to her desk "for her own
good", Mac is startled. Joe Riddley has gotten word of a
death in the small town of Hopemore, Georgia, and he doesn't
want the inquisitive Mac to risk her life once again by
looking into the death.
After she gets over her anger at Joe Riddley, Mac doesn't
think there's anything to investigate at first. Starr Knight
was a known drug user, so her crashing a stolen pickup off a
highway doesn't seem like any mystery. Her unusual, rather
somber attire does raise eyebrows, but nothing to be
concerned about. Until the autopsy reveals that Starr didn't
die in an accident, but was murdered.
Mac finds herself involved in seeking out answers despite
her promise to Joe Riddley. When another young woman is
murdered and found in atypical attire for the woman, even
more questions are raised. Just what is happening to
small-town Hopemore? Are drugs going to destroy the
quaintness of the rural area? Is there a link between the
two murders? And is the new stranger in town linked to these
crimes?
WHAT ARE YOU WEARING TO DIE? is the eighth Thoroughly
Southern mystery. Although a new reader to the series, I was
able to follow along without any real difficulties in
knowing who was who. Readers will wonder what is next for
Mac and her husband after the climatic events of this book.
Lovers of cozy mysteries will enjoy this latest offering
from Ms. Sprinkle.
Georgia magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough has never believed her
husband's threat to shackle her to her desk to keep her from
"meddling in murder." But when Starr Knight, the
taxidermist's daughter, is found dead, that's just what Joe
Riddley does, despite Mac's protest that she has no
intention of getting involved.
She just has one
question: why did the flamboyant young mother dress so
sedately on the day she died? Then a second young woman is
murdered, also dressed characteristically. Now Mac's got to
ask-whose closet will be raided next?
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