Portrait of a Dead Guy: 1 (Cherry Tucker Mystery)

Laugh-out-loud funny and as Southern as sweet tea and cheese gritsThe tone of this marvelously cracked book is not unlike Sophie Littlefields 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. - Mystery Scene MagazineIn 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. 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 shell be lucky to survive.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 New York Times Bestselling Author of Flipped OutRelated 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.Books in the Cherry Tucker Humorous Mystery Series: QUICK SKETCH (novella in HEARTACHE MOTEL) PORTRAIT OF A DEAD GUY (#1) STILL LIFE IN BRUNSWICK STEW (#2) HIJACK IN ABSTRACT (#3) DEATH IN PERSPECTIVE (#4) THE BODY IN THE LANDSCAPE (#5) THE VIGILANTE VIGNETTE (novella) A COMPOSITION IN MURDER (#6) A VIEW TO A CHILL (novella)