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Savannah Reid, ex-cop and now owner of the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency, is happy with her life. Her business is going well enough, her home is just the way she likes it, good friends surround her and she's finally at peace with her body image. She's comfortable being at the weight she is and now enjoys life and makes it a point to indulge in good food. One day her assistant Tammy enters her out of town overweight cousin Abigail in a contest for a new salon that's opening in town named Emerge and wins it for her. Abby is not thrilled and feels insulted. Because Tammy has no room, Savannah gets the grumpy Abby as a house guest. Almost immediately the successful plastic surgeon owner of the salon goes missing. Her house is ransacked and her dog Sammy is gone. Foul play is suspected and Savannah's old cop partner, Detective Sergeant Dirk Coulter, is assigned to the case. Knowing that Savannah is a great detective, and since no other detective wants to work with him and his bad temper, he asks Savannah to help investigate. She's only too happy to oblige. Abigail is very angry about the idea of being overhauled into a thinner more socially acceptable body and isn't shy about speaking her mind about it. Because of her anger Savannah has a small suspicion that she might have done away with the Emerge owner as a political statement to protest society's bigotry against the overweight. Yet as the investigation continues, Savannah puts together a long list of people who had a reason to get rid of Dr Suzette Du Bois: her ex-husband and partner in the spa, who is a ladies' man and lives way beyond his means, the idea man behind the business, who feels he hasn't gotten his full share of the money or respect due him, and pretty much every other worker at the spa has complaints. Savannah has a lot of digging to do! CORPSE SUZETTE by GA McKevett is a fabulous fun read from start to finish. The characters are both appealing and realistic, all with senses of humor and a clear eye to the world around them. The murder mystery part of the story was surprisingly well done -- with the high level of likable characters in this story I didnŐt expect the mystery to be as tightly created and solid as it turned out to be. McKevett does a fine job with light-handed foreshadowing and complete follow through. The ending is a little over the top and a bit too happy for my cynical taste, but in view of the rest of the story, it satisfies. You hope for the best for these people and can't help but be happy at their good fortune. This is the 12th in the Savannah Reid Series and the first I've read. Read CORPSE SUZETTE. It stands well on its own and furthermore make you long to get your hands on the rest of the series to eat them up!
Reviewed by Sharon Katz, March 2006
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