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Summary: One of the Funniest Mystery Series Ever!!
Review: "Murder Gets A Life" is the 5th book in one of the funniest mystery series ever written. Anne George has left a WONDERFUL legacy. Her books are not only hilarious in dialogue, but the mystery plots are really, really GOOD.The Southern Sisters Mystery Series stars our two 60-ish siblings, Patricia Anne (retired schoolteacher, reserved, happily married to Fred for 40 yrs., petite) and Mary Alice (250+ lbs., a foot taller than Patricia Anne, rich after burying three husbands, brassy, bold, and impulsive). The dialogue that ensues between them is priceless! In "Murder Gets a Life," we find that Mary Alice has met her match with Meemaw. Mary Alice's son, Ray, has married a cute little Barbie doll named Sunshine down in Bora Bora. Unfortunately, Sunshine's relatives are "as common as pig tracks." Her Grandmother, Meemaw, is even giving Mary Alice a run for her money! As uptight Sheriff Reuse tells Mary Alice when he learns whom she has inherited as in-laws - "There IS a God!" You will LOVE this series. I highly recommend that you buy them ALL and read them in sequence. You will not regret it!
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Summary: One of the Funniest Mystery Series Ever!!
Review: "Murder Gets A Life" is the 5th book in one of the funniest mystery series ever written. Anne George has left a WONDERFUL legacy. Her books are not only hilarious in dialogue, but the mystery plots are really, really GOOD. The Southern Sisters Mystery Series stars our two 60-ish siblings, Patricia Anne (retired schoolteacher, reserved, happily married to Fred for 40 yrs., petite) and Mary Alice (250+ lbs., a foot taller than Patricia Anne, rich after burying three husbands, brassy, bold, and impulsive). The dialogue that ensues between them is priceless! In "Murder Gets a Life," we find that Mary Alice has met her match with Meemaw. Mary Alice's son, Ray, has married a cute little Barbie doll named Sunshine down in Bora Bora. Unfortunately, Sunshine's relatives are "as common as pig tracks." Her Grandmother, Meemaw, is even giving Mary Alice a run for her money! As uptight Sheriff Reuse tells Mary Alice when he learns whom she has inherited as in-laws - "There IS a God!" You will LOVE this series. I highly recommend that you buy them ALL and read them in sequence. You will not regret it!
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Summary: has to be careful for words
Review: Actually, I enjoyed this story mostly. Good entertainment. But just one, but big point. She should not have made fun about an atomic bomb. It was no fun at all, especially for Japanese. I am not a fastidious person and the author can write anything on her book. Just shocked.
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Summary: Light, quick, fun. A page turner.
Review: All of Anne George's books are good, but this is the best. Hysterical! Anne, can't you write faster? I can hardly wait for the next installment.
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Summary: This book was so funny!
Review: Anne George has a wonderful comical writing talent. Her saying that some people "just don't have walking around sense", makes me laugh out loud. She has also written a more serious book called This One and Magic Life which I read first, and really enjoyed. But then when I began reading her Southern Sisters series and I just couldn't put the books down. On more than one occasion my sister has burst into my room asking me what in the world I was laughing at, I'd read her a passage and she would leave the room laughing too.
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Summary: I wish she'd write a book a month
Review: Anne George has a wonderful comical writing talent. Her saying that some people "just don't have walking around sense", makes me laugh out loud. She has also written a more serious book called This One and Magic Life which I read first, and really enjoyed. But then when I began reading her Southern Sisters series and I just couldn't put the books down. On more than one occasion my sister has burst into my room asking me what in the world I was laughing at, I'd read her a passage and she would leave the room laughing too.
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Summary: I wish she'd write a book a month
Review: Anne George has a wonderful comical writing talent. Her saying that some people "just don't have walking around sense", makes me laugh out loud. She has also written a more serious book called This One and Magic Life which I read first, and really enjoyed. But then when I began reading her Southern Sisters series and I just couldn't put the books down. On more than one occasion my sister has burst into my room asking me what in the world I was laughing at, I'd read her a passage and she would leave the room laughing too.
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Summary: The Best of the South
Review: Anne George has captured the essence of southern sisters and southern families in this marvelous and wacky mystery. While some of the situations may seem a bit strange to some--those of us who grew up in the small towns of the South can relate to the trailer trash, the family interaction and the way in which the sisters handle all the situations. Highly recommend this and all other Anne George books. Just wish she would write faster
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Summary: Great Southern Sisters mystery
Review: Anne George has done it again: here is another laugh-out-loud entertaining Southern Sisters mystery. The mystery may be somewhat darker in this one; the characters perhaps a bit more red-neckish; the setting slightly more varied. My first reaction to the subject ofthe book was: trailer trash. But while some characters seem to fit that epithet, the subjectis more complex than trailer trash. Mary Alice--the tall and well-endowed sister--answers the door one day to meet anunexpected daughter-in-law. Since Ray, her son, lives in Bora Bora (or is it Pago Pago?),where he owns and operates a dive ship, and Miss Sunshine Dabbs lives in Alabama, theannouncement is a real shocker. The fact that Sunshine appears to be without background(so important in the South) and owns not even one deviled-egg plate is even moreimprobable. Sunshine is drop-dead gorgeous, if one admires Barbie dolls, and can boastof having been in the Miss Alabama Contest (where her talent was fly fishing). Always themediator, Patricia Anne helps her sister graciously welcome the girl and her family--avaried and eccentric group which includes a porn star, a former NASA engineer who livesto fish and flirt, and his jealous wife who resembles a Cabbage Patch doll! It isn't long before Patricia Anne and Mary Alice literally fall over a deceased IndianChief (sort of) who has been stabbed with a hog-butchering knife. From here the actionpicks up. Sunshine disappears, Ray comes home from Bora Bora, smuggling rears itshead. While all this is going on, Mary Alice's daughter is suffering morning sickness andPatricia Anne's Haley is planning a wedding. The month is August; the temperature isscorching; Woofer is spending lots of time in his igloo dog house; and lots of iced tea isbeing drunk. It takes most of the 256 pages in the book to resolve the ins and outs of this mystery. There are few dull moments--at one time Patricia Anne and Mary Alice, locked in the backof a delivery truck, are left alone in a cotton field. Another time -- well, read the book. You will enjoy it.One caveat: George makes the reader like her characters, the villains as well as the goodguys, and certain aspects of the ending will leave some readers wanting to know whathappens next? As Patricia Anne would say (does say), even a person with a brain half a bubble off plumb can figure out what will happen. But some readers will want all thethreads tied up tightly--and will wish for a happy ever after ending.
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Summary: Side-splitting - can't miss it!
Review: Anne George has quickly become one of my favorite authors. Not only are her mysteries top notch, but the antics of Patricia Anne and Sister remind me so much of my grandmother and aunt. The dialogue is peppered with southern wit and charm. This is by far the funniest and most intricately plotted of all Anne George's books so far. It kept me in stitches the entire time. In fact, my boyfriend, who reads only science fiction became so interested with the bits and pieces of humor that I would read to him, that I had to read the book twice! Once to myself and once outloud to him. We both laughed until we cried. He especially enjoyed my rendition of the story, since I am from the south. His quote was "you make it sound so funny with your accent, that it wouldn't be the same if I read it myself". But as much as I enjoyed it, I would read it again!
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