Guess Who's Coming to Die? (Thoroughly Southern Mysteries, No. 9) [Mass Market Paperback]

Patricia Sprinkle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 6, 2007

Georgia magistrate, mother, wife, and sometime sleuth MacLaren Yarbrough has been invited to join the Magnolia Ladies' Investment Club and is plumb confused-she's definitely no heiress. But she tables that thought when, at her first meeting, she finds out-going club president Willena Kenan dead on the bathroom floor with a corkscrew protruding from her neck. Since it happened during a coffee break, when everyone left the room separately, no club member is above suspicion. But when the police find a trench coat with incriminating evidence, things get sticky.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 277 pages
• Publisher: Signet (February 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451220617
• ISBN-13: 978-0451220615
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #915,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Patricia Sprinkle gets better and better!, March 24, 2007

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andiesenji (SoCal,USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guess Who's Coming to Die? (Thoroughly Southern Mysteries, No. 9) (Mass Market Paperback)

Each time I pick up one of Patricia Sprinkle's stories about Mac Yarbrough, I am sure that she will not be able to top the last one. However, each time I am pleasantly suprised with an even more complex mystery with extraordinary characters, all with convoluted reasons for being suspected of the crime or crimes.
For me, it just doesn't get any better. Having been born and raised in the south, these characters recall people I remember from my long-ago childhood.
Mac is a fictional character with whom I am sure I could be friends. I can picture friendly visits and lengthy conversations about things interesting to both of us.
The method of her reasoning and the teasing out of obscure information about the other characters keeps me guessing until the end of the book. The "reveal" in this book is presented in a manner that is every bit as good as any final act in a thrilling play. The scene has been set and that description has been written so well I can picture it all in my mind.
I can't imagine that anyone would be disappointed with this mystery. The rich descriptions of the characters, their motives and actions (sometimes irrational, just as in real life) and the ultimate solution by a very real and interesting protagonist, are all reasons to read this book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sprinkle Did It Again, July 7, 2007

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Fran Stewart "franstewart.com" (Hog Mountain, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guess Who's Coming to Die? (Thoroughly Southern Mysteries, No. 9) (Mass Market Paperback)

What fun! I can always count on a Patricia Sprinkle book to brighten my day. Oh sure, there's a dead body -- sometimes in a gruesome predicament -- but Sprinkle manages, like every good mystery writer, to give us a compelling puzzle, a well-planned plot, a satisfying denouement, and plenty of side information along the way. In GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DIE? she manages to eviscerate developers who clear-cut land without thinking of the consequences, with a sideswipe at owners of gas-guzzling SUVs. And she does it without sounding like she's on a soap-box. Quite a trick to that.

This one is a winner!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars small town southern mystery, November 17, 2007

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duchess "duchy" (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guess Who's Coming to Die? (Thoroughly Southern Mysteries, No. 9) (Mass Market Paperback)

Guess Who's Coming to Die by Patricia Sprinkle is one of the Thoroughly Southern Mystery series. This series (and book) is set in small southern town, so you have to try to figure out who is related to who, and how, and how all of the characters know each other and why they interact in the ways that they do. (Ah, small town life!) You have to understand all of that to get full worth out of the plot...in this, a woman who is a judge, small business owner, wife, mother, and grandmother is the sleuth. When she is invited to join the investment group made up of women of the local aristocracy, she finds a murdered woman (also a member of the club) in the ladies' room. The rest of the book deals with her attempts to discover who did the dirty deed and why. You seem to have to know all of the genetic relationships for generations, who has been or is sleeping with who, and why some women do or do not get along in their various social clubs in order to follow the judge in her investigation...

Nontheless, the sleuth is quite likable, though most of the people she is investigating are anything but...