Southern Fried Mystery Books

Laid off from her prominent job with a big-city law firm, attorney Avery Andrews returns to the small Southern town of her childhood in the hope of setting up a new practice but finds her efforts challenged by the murder of a first client and an old classmate's volatile declarations of love. A first novel. Reprint.

Living in the small Southern town of her childhood after being fired from her big-city law firm, attorney Avery Andrews is called in by high-profile lawyer Jake Baker to assist in a case in Charleston, South Carolina, but the job becomes serious when a young doctor is found dead, a prostitute vanishes, and a suicidal gunman goes on a shooting rampage. By the author of Southern Fried. Reprint.

A runaway pig is about as explosive a piece of news as there is to be found in Dacus. That’s just one reason why Avery left her small Southern surroundings in the first place. But home is where the heart is, and since her high-profile trial in Charleston has ended, she’s more than ready for some R&R—until a series of grisly murders unfolds at a local housing development, and Avery’s called onto the case. Now she must weed through a tangled web of troublemakers—from local brass and newspapermen to real-estate honchos and construction workers—to track down the killer who, like the infamous two-and-a-half-foot tall, black potbellied pig, remains on the loose…

Now that attorney Avery Andrews is back in town, business is booming. There’s the team of ghost hunters who arrive at Avery’s office one fine spring day, searching for ectoplasm from the long-dead. The ghosters are also having altercations with the locals (a raging biker gang and Avery’s own P.I. among them) but Avery’s got other “real” problems with the dearly departed: The twenty-year-old unsolved murder of Wenda Sims. Not long ago Wenda’s niece, Neanna, came to Dacus looking for clues about what happened to her aunt. Then Neanna, too, went missing…and was found dead. Now Neanna’s best friend and adopted sister, Fran French, has come to town. Can Avery help Fran solve the two murders and prevent Fran from meeting the same fate? It’s time for Avery to unearth the truth about the past before it comes back to haunt Dacus…for good.

It's another Fourth of July in Dacus, South Carolina, and the carnival fright house isn't impressing Avery's seven-year-old niece Emma. That is, until the leg falls off a mannequin posed with a chainsaw. Then even Emma recognizes the human leg bone protruding from the wizened limb. The next day, Avery joins her sister at a college picnic up on the mountain, but the festivities are interrupted when one of the faculty wives disappears off the waterfall. Now, between the owners of the fright house needing help in reopening for the high season and the new widower's even newer lady friend seeking legal protection of his financial interests, Avery has her work cut out for her. She finds herself following the money as she pieces together a very cold case―and a very cold-blooded murder…