Southern Fried Trouble

by Katherine Deauxville

Adultery, divorce, murder.why did Deecey Hannaford let her twin brother, Ace, embroil her yet again in his off-again/on-again private investigator business? As an aspiring actress, she couldn't keep... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 098155735X
• ISBN13: 9780981557359
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Highland Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Deauxville manages to keep layers of action going at the same time

Katherine Deauxville is a romance writer with 30 published novels to her credit. The bestselling A CHRISTMAS ROMANCE was featured in Good Housekeeping magazine and was produced as a CBS Sunday Night Movie starring Olivia Newton-John and Gregory Harrison. She is consistently on the bestseller list. Highland Press Publishing is new to the publishing scene and will specialize in novel length romances. One of the entertaining aspects of romance novels is the settings of the characters. As in the hit series, DALLAS, Deauxville plants her characters in Florida, as twin investigators. Well, at least Ace Hannaford is a PI. His twin, Deecey, helps him out from time-to-time, which in this case means she is climbing through bushes with a large camera to get shots of an errant billionaire in a flagrant position with his newest escapade. Deecey then has an improbable encounter with a Russian actor, who is later found drowned. In the meantime, Senator Hannaford decides to throw a pubic relations party, and commands Deecey to act as the hostess. Throw in Deecey's handsome boyfriend, Troy Whitfield; a pet croc at the Senator's; a band of gypsies; and continuous mayhem, a little ESP, and you've got a Katherine Deauxville sparkler: "Mrs. Harris had already told Ace the family had another pressing problem. Her granddaughter, Nita, was sure she was being shadowed when she delivered the weekly cash from the palmistry parlor to Uncle Drogo, the Gypsies' treasurer, who lived in Bonita Springs and owned a safe. Nita made the trip every Thursday because the Harrises, like most Gypsies, didn't believe in keeping their money in commercial banks. Uncle Drogo collected the week's take from each of the Harris family's palmistry parlor locations and kept the accounts." Deauxville manages to keep layers of action going at the same time, as well as providing plenty of sizzling chemistry between Deecey and her beloved Troy, for the reader's entertainment. She is the priestess of guilty pleasures, and she is also able to weave a fascinating whodunit at the same time. Deecey, her brother Ace, and boyfriend Troy provide plenty of glamour, and one could easily imagine this little story being turned into another blockbuster television series. We can't get enough of these characters. Shelley Glodowski Senior Reviewer