Patricia Sprinkle is the author of a "Thoroughly Southern Mystery Series" starring Georgia magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough. These are easy cozy reads. I recently read "Guess Who's Coming to Die" in which Mac is invited to join the upper-crust Magnolia Ladies Investment Club. At her first meeting Mac discovers the body of one of the members with a corkscrew stuck in her neck.
While this book was somewhat enjoyable, I just didn't connect with the character of MacLaren. Sometimes you just don't click.
I think I enjoy more Laura Childs' Tea Shop mystery series which takes place in Charleston, South Carolina and follows the exploits of tea shop owner and sometime sleuth Theodosia Browning. I don't think I've written about Theo's adventures in this blog, but I've read several and frankly I just enjoy her more --- even if Childs seems at times to be a little too overly affectionate with her heroine.
So, if you'd like a Southern mystery, I prefer Theo over Mac!
Until next time, may your reading be both pleasurable and profitable.
