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Summary: Another Fantastic Southern Sisters Mystery Y'all!
Review: Have you ever had your two favourite aunts go away for a year on an adventure....then have them return to share with you the trouble they got themselves into. This is what reading an Anne George Southern Sisters mystery is like. These books make me laugh until I can't breath, bring tears to my eyes and keep me on the edge of my chair until the last tale has been told. Murder Carries a Torch is indeed a visit with those whacky relatives. You've got dead snake-charmers, purple boots, angel-sightings, pukey cousins, disappearing wives and the most loveable sisters in mystery today. The fact that one of the the ladies is now 'wired' is a bonus...the part describing Patricia Anne's experience with e-mail 'spam' is hilarious, and I was smart enough this time round not to have a mouthfull of anything when I read it. Like the rest of the books in this series, Torch is pure heaven. The only downside here is the wait for the next one!
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Summary: Mouse and Aunt Sister do it again!
Review: I have enjoyed all the SOUTHERN SISTERS mysteries greatly, but MURDER CARRIES A TORCH is Anne Carroll George's best by far. I'm originally a North Carolinian, not an Alabamian, but the two sisters strike so many chords of recognition with me. I have aunts and cousins who aren't quite so zany, but very similiar in other ways. I laughed out loud so many times reading this book and the mystery had me fooled, too. Lots of fun and I agree with another reviewer-a fabulous reason to ignore the housework!
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Summary: Anne George Does It Again!
Review: I love the Southern Sisters Mystery series by Anne George. Murder Carries a Torch is the seventh serving of this wonderful series. Sister and Mouse encounter a missing cousin, snake-handlers and two murders on this latest romp thru Birmingham and places nearby. Most authors get stale after writing about the same characters, but not Anne George. The seventh book is as fresh as the first. My only regret is that I'll have to wait another year before another Southern Sister Mystery comes out. I don't know if I can stand the suspense. If you are looking for a lighthearted good read with a heart, you need to read Murder Carries A Torch.
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Summary: Another delight!
Review: I read most of the mystery series (Spenser, Scarpetta, VI Warshawsky, etc.) and this is by far my favorite. Warm and funny, I love all the characters in these books. This details of this mystery, which included religion as well as murder, were imaginative, though I figured out who the killer was long before Mouse and Aunt Sister. (I'm usually easier to fool.) I was devastated to learn that the next one is the last one, since Ms. George has passed away. At least we'll always have her work.
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Summary: A weak ending but otherwise a great book
Review: I'm a fan of the Southern Sisters series, and this was perhaps my fourth book in the series. I liked this one less than others I had read, probably because it was less of a puzzle for the reader to solve than I liked -- too much of the solution lay in things you had no reason to know. Nevertheless, because I have read so much in the genre, I was not surprised when the killer was revealed because there are certain characters in a mystery I keep an eye on based on the way the author portrays them.The plot involves a snake handling church that sisters Patricia Ann and Mary Alice cross paths with in the search for their cousin Luke's wife -- who has disappeared with a house painter who is also a pastor at this church. Mary Alice is as outrageous as ever (and funny), while Patricia Ann is domestic as a plate (we hear about every meal she prepares) and yet gets dragged into a dangerous situation in her search for her cousin's wife. If you like the series, you'll like this book, but if you haven't read any of the series, it would probably be best to start at the beginning. I personally didn't think this was the best in the series but it's well worth reading.
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Summary: A weak ending but otherwise a great book
Review: I'm a fan of the Southern Sisters series, and this was perhaps my fourth book in the series. I liked this one less than others I had read, probably because it was less of a puzzle for the reader to solve than I liked -- too much of the solution lay in things you had no reason to know. Nevertheless, because I have read so much in the genre, I was not surprised when the killer was revealed because there are certain characters in a mystery I keep an eye on based on the way the author portrays them. The plot involves a snake handling church that sisters Patricia Ann and Mary Alice cross paths with in the search for their cousin Luke's wife -- who has disappeared with a house painter who is also a pastor at this church. Mary Alice is as outrageous as ever (and funny), while Patricia Ann is domestic as a plate (we hear about every meal she prepares) and yet gets dragged into a dangerous situation in her search for her cousin's wife. If you like the series, you'll like this book, but if you haven't read any of the series, it would probably be best to start at the beginning. I personally didn't think this was the best in the series but it's well worth reading.
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Summary: An Ear for Speech
Review: I'm not a Southerner, but I know southerners, and so part of the charm of this book was the wonderful expressions southerners come up with. The book is intelligently and warmly written, humorous, beautiful descriptions of nature that don't bog it down. A nice detail is that one of the characters has had a mastectomy, and her approach to reconstruction was, to me, appealing. My only quibble is that the world of religious snake handling was only superficially skimmed.
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Summary: Another great one!
Review: If you haven't read one yet, start now, because Anne George has written another great Southern Sisters Mystery. You'll laugh from start to finish over Patricia Anne and Mary Alice and their latest adventures. Don't wait--get one now!
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Summary: --Hilarious and Entertaining--
Review: In MURDER CARRIES A TORCH, Patricia Ann and Mary Alice (those outrageous sisters) find themselves trying to help their cousin Luke. Apparently his wife, Virginia, has run off with the man that was hired to paint their home. Luke is so distraught that the sisters have to step in and take over the search for Virginia. It turns out that the charismatic house painter named Monk, is also a snake-handling preacher. The sisters, always the first to find trouble, discover the body of a beautiful woman in his church and the search for Virginia continues. Of course, Mary Alice dressed in her new purple boots and matching cape bewitches another fellow who falls madly in love with her. This time it's Sheriff Virgil Stuckey, the officer in charge of the murder investigation. I can only say that like the other books in this series, this is hilarious and a great way to escape for a few hours.
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Summary: Mouse and Sister are hilarious.
Review: In this novel, Mouse and Sister's cousin, Pukey Lukey(the book is worth reading just for the characters)asks the sisters to help him find his wife, Virginia, who has run away with a snake handling housepainter/preacher. It gets crazier from there. Sister and Mouse have the craziest adventures.
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