Sweet & Deadly
by Harris, Charlaine
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- Fine
- Hardcover
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- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 179pp a fine bright copy in like dust jacket, Inscribed by Harris to reviewer Bill Starr. Advance review copy with review slip laid in.
Inscribed By the Author
Inscribed By the Author
Synopsis
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...
Reviews
On Jan 18 2014, CloggieDownunder said:
Sweet and Deadly is the first novel by popular American author, Charlaine Harris. After the unsolved murder of her parents some six months previous, journalist Catherine Linton is working at the Lowfield Gazette and otherwise keeping a low profile, living in her parents home. Her father’s medical practice has been taken over by a young doctor and her life seems somewhat on hold. Then she stumbles across the brutally beaten body of Leona Gaites, her father’s long-time employee, and Catherine is convinced the murder is linked to that of her parents. But it soon emerges that Leona was not all she seemed, and quite a few people in Lowfield might have a good reason to want her dead. With a decidedly Southern feel, this little murder mystery is a taste of early Harris that presages her later work. The characters are interesting, there are clues and red herrings, the plot has enough twists to keep the reader intrigued, the dialogue is credible and, all in all, this is a very enjoyable read.
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- Seller
- Old New York Book Shop
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 32459
- Title
- Sweet & Deadly
- Author
- Harris, Charlaine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1981
- Bookseller catalogs
- Detective Fiction;
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