Just Desserts
G. A. McKevett
Apr 2014 · Open Road Media
3.8star
8 reviews
Ebook
320
Pages
About this ebook
In the first of a delicious series, a full-figured Southern police detective untangles the murder mystery of a California politician’s husband.
Det. Sgt. Savannah Reid is a long way from Georgia, but she’ll go anywhere for good food and good friends. And policing the exclusive Southern California town of San Carmelita is as tasty as biscuits and gravy with spicy home fries. Until city councilwoman Beverly Winston’s husband turns up dead—and an unprecedented media feeding frenzy sweeps the elite beach community like a tsunami.
The good news: Savannah is put in charge of the case. The bad: She’s pressured to investigate every person of interest except the main one, Beverly herself. And when Savannah refuses to play political ball, she’s summarily fired for “being overweight.” But when another suspect hires her to uncover the truth, the detective turns up the heat on an unsavory mess of triple-dealing, infidelity, and betrayal that will rock San Carmelita’s sun-soaked elegance to its core—and put a calculating murderer’s target on Savannah’s back.
Starring a “warm, winsome, and weight-bedeviled” heroine whose down-home savvy can solve the most sophisticated cases, this series is a delight for fans of Diane Mott Davidson’s Goldy Schultz culinary mysteries and Miranda James’s Southern Ladies Mysteries (Publishers Weekly).
Det. Sgt. Savannah Reid is a long way from Georgia, but she’ll go anywhere for good food and good friends. And policing the exclusive Southern California town of San Carmelita is as tasty as biscuits and gravy with spicy home fries. Until city councilwoman Beverly Winston’s husband turns up dead—and an unprecedented media feeding frenzy sweeps the elite beach community like a tsunami.
The good news: Savannah is put in charge of the case. The bad: She’s pressured to investigate every person of interest except the main one, Beverly herself. And when Savannah refuses to play political ball, she’s summarily fired for “being overweight.” But when another suspect hires her to uncover the truth, the detective turns up the heat on an unsavory mess of triple-dealing, infidelity, and betrayal that will rock San Carmelita’s sun-soaked elegance to its core—and put a calculating murderer’s target on Savannah’s back.
Starring a “warm, winsome, and weight-bedeviled” heroine whose down-home savvy can solve the most sophisticated cases, this series is a delight for fans of Diane Mott Davidson’s Goldy Schultz culinary mysteries and Miranda James’s Southern Ladies Mysteries (Publishers Weekly).
Ratings and reviews
3.8
8 reviews
Lisa Riddle
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January 31, 2015
I really enjoy these mysteries. I have read about 5 of them. I just found this one, which I think is the first one. I've read the next to last one, Buried in Buttercream. Loved it! I'm going to try to read all of them in order. Some I will read again because I like this series that much.
Cindy G.
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January 20, 2018
I really loved this book! It took me a week to finish but every night I would read it, excited and intrigued...
About the author
G. A. McKevett is the pseudonym of well-known author Sonja Massie. Under this name, she has published over twenty volumes in the Savannah Reid mystery series, among them Killer Reunion, Killer Physique, Cooked Goose, and Peaches and Screams.
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