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Sunny Childs is back. The Atlanta PI, lead detective at Peachtree Investigations, is as appealing as ever in her third outing. Country singer Georgia Burnett is missing -- she disappeared from a locked room, no less -- and her husband wants Peachtree to find her, but only if he can negotiate a suitably low fee. The agency needs money, Sunny went to school with the missing Georgia; no matter how offputting Sunny finds Georgia's husband, she has to take the case. Her publicity-loving boss, Gunnar Brushwood, couldn't agree more. He sees headlines and free advertising as the natural result of a successful resolution. It's no spoiler to say that there is a successful resolution... for a while. Sunny and her boss are at odds over how much his desire to stay in the public eye played a part in the handling of the case, but new developments soon mean they have to put their differences aside; the stakes are suddenly much higher. In Sunny Childs, Ruth Birmingham has created an appealing, believable protagonist. Sunny, unlike so many series leads, is no superwoman, nor is she a collection of supposedly-amusing tics and quirks. She's an emotionally-strong woman on the job, a not-so-strong woman where her personal life (especially her mother) is concerned. We all know someone like her; we may even be someone like her. In Sweet Georgia, as in the previous books in this series, Birmingham has given the reader a great story told in her characteristic straightforward style. "Page-turner" is an over-used adjective, but it's fit all of Birmingham's earlier books and it fits this one, too. Sweet Georgia is a good choice for those who are already hooked on Sunny and an excellent introduction for those who have yet to make her acquaintance.
Reviewed by Susan Anderson, August 2001
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