Tressed to Kill
First in the brand-new Southern Beauty Shop mystery series St. Elizabeth, Georgia, offers charm, Southern hospitality-and, most recently, murder. When hairdresser Grace Terhune and her mother, Violetta, gussy up all the high-society ladies attending the town meeting, they find their snobbiest...
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First in the brand-new Southern Beauty Shop mystery series St. Elizabeth, Georgia, offers charm, Southern hospitality-and, most recently, murder. When hairdresser Grace Terhune and her mother, Violetta, gussy up all the high-society ladies attending the town meeting, they find their snobbiest client dead. The police believe the mother-daughter duo did her in. But before things get snarled beyond repair, Grace sets out to clear their names.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780425234747 (0425234746)
Publish date: May 4th 2010
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
Pages no: 294
Edition language: English
Series: Southern Beauty Shop (#1)
Grace Terhune is a divorced beautician who has moved back from Atlanta to her childhood hometown St. Elizabeth and currently works at her mother's Beauty Salon Violetta's. As with all small southern towns, everyone knows everybody and as per usual, there is the town Bitch who has pissed everyone off...
Not a bad first story in a series. I haven't found the characters to be too engaging yet, but the mystery was good and I'll definitely read the next book.
With all the recent new cozy series, it's been interesting weeding out the good ones from the bad ones.........this is definitely one of the good ones! I enjoy series set in the South, but was a bit hesitant with this one since it's billed as the "Southern Beauty Shop" series. I thought that might...