Portrait of a Dead Guy

<p><strong><em>"Laugh-out-loud funny and as Southern as sweet tea and cheese grits</em></strong>"</p><p><em>“The tone of this marvelously cracked book is not unlike Sophie Littlefield’s brilliant A Bad Day for Sorry as author Reinhart dishes out shovelfuls of ribald humor and mayhem. It takes a rare talent to successfully portray a beer-and-hormone-addled artist as a sympathetic and worthy heroine but Reinhart pulls it off with tongue-in-cheek panache.” – <strong>Mystery Scene Magazine</strong></em></p><p>In Halo Georgia folks know Cherry Tucker as big in mouth small in stature and able to sketch a portrait faster than buckshot rips from a ten gauge — but commissions are scarce. So when the well-heeled Branson family wants to memorialize their murdered son in a coffin portrait Cherry scrambles to win their patronage from her small town rival. </p><p>As the clock ticks toward the deadline Cherry faces more trouble than just a controversial subject. Between ex-boyfriends her flaky family an illegal gambling ring and outwitting a killer on a spree Cherry finds herself painted into a corner she’ll be lucky to survive.</p><p><em>“An entertaining mystery full of quirky characters and solid plotting...Highly recommended for anyone who likes their mysteries strong and their mint juleps stronger!” – Jennie Bentley <strong>New York Times</strong> Bestselling Author of Flipped Out</em></p><p>Related subjects include: cozy mysteries women sleuths murder mystery series whodunit mysteries (whodunnit) humorous murder mysteries book club recommendations amateur sleuth books small town humor Southern humor.</p><p>Books in the Cherry Tucker Humorous Mystery Series:</p><p>QUICK SKETCH (novella in HEARTACHE MOTEL) <br />PORTRAIT OF A DEAD GUY (#1)<br />STILL LIFE IN BRUNSWICK STEW (#2)<br />HIJACK IN ABSTRACT (#3) <br />DEATH IN PERSPECTIVE (#4)<br />THE BODY IN THE LANDSCAPE (#5)<br />THE VIGILANTE VIGNETTE (novella)<br />A COMPOSITION IN MURDER (#6)<br />A VIEW TO A CHILL (novella) </p>