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Feet of Clay (Sunny Childs Mysteries)

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Atlanta's Peachtree Investigations top private investigator Sunny Childs refuses to help her enthusiastic cousin Lee-Lee film a documentary on death row convict Germind Dale Weedlaw, who is to be executed in Jackson in a few days. Dale was found guilty of brutally raping and killing two women in Flournoy County.

Not long afterward, at two in the morning, Sunny, sleeping with her fianc? FBI Special Agent Barrington Cherry, receives a collect call from a prison in Flournoy County from Lee-Lee, who has been arrested. Three hours after the call, Sunny and her brother attorney Walter arrive in the office of the county's sheriff in Pettigrew, Georgia. Lee-Lee insists she was falsely arrested because of her questions about the Weedlaw case. Sunny and Walter get her freed, but the sleuth stays around to keep the filmmaker out of trouble. They soon find stronger suspects than the convicted as they interview hostile locals.

In her sixth appearance, Sunny is at her best as she deals with her zealous cousin and townsfolk who would prefer to lynch the outsiders than answer their inquiries. The story line focuses on a serious topic of capital crime while also uses family relationships and some local eccentric characters to provide humor. Ruth Birmingham shows why this is an award winning series with a fabulous regional mystery.

Harriet Klausner

After waiting in vain for this book to come out in paperback, I finally picked up the hardcover. Unfortunately, so much time had gone by since I'd read the last installment of the series that I had trouble remembering much about Sunny or her world. And, while I enjoyed this book, I do remember liking the previous installments better.

I'm not sure if there are more books forthcoming, but the author would be well-served to concentrate on Sunny and not her psycho cousin Lee-Lee, who was nothing but a distraction to this story and probably caused me to like it less than I would have had Sunny handled this case on her own.