Friday Memes: Sweet and Deadly by Charlaine Harris

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Beginning:

She passed a dead dog on her way to the tenant shack.

Friday 56:

I've been working on it, she thought defensively.

The terrible jolts of the day before had shown her how far she had come and how far she had to go.

This week I am spotlighting Sweet and Deadly by Charlaine Harris. This one has been sitting on TBR mountain since I bought it on Feb. 28, 2007. It is her first book which she wrote in 1981. Here is the description from Amazon:

Now best known for her New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse novels, Charlaine Harris hit "a home run the first time out" (Birmingham News) with the story of a murder that embroils a small-town reporter in mystery that hits close to home...

Catherine Linton has returned to her hometown of Lowfield, Mississippi, unconvinced that the death of her parents in a car crash six months earlier was an accident. And her suspicions are confirmed when she stumbles upon the dead and beaten body of her doctor-father's longtime nurse. There are secrets being kept in Lowfield. And the town where Catherine grew up may be the same place where she is sent to her grave...