A Little Death In Dixie [Kindle Edition]

Lisa Turner (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Memphis, the Mississippi River, and the underbelly of human nature they're all exposed in the dark brew of this fast-paced Southern Gothic suspense. Page-turning and atmospheric, this tightly-plotted novel turns the screws and sends readers racing to its surprise conclusion." ~Michael Finger, Senior Editor, Memphis Magazine

Product Description

The Blues were born out of need, anger and pride. Murder comes from those same dark places. Memphis has both. One of Memphis' most seductive and notorious socialites has vanished. Either she's off on another drunken escapade or the disappearance is something much more frightening. What begins as an ordinary day's work for Detective Billy Able quickly grows into a complex spider's web of tragedy, mystery, suspicion, and sordid secrets including a few of Billy's own. With the help of Mercy Snow, the estranged sister of the missing socialite, Billy follows a twisted trail of human frailty and corruption to disturbing truths that undermine everything he thought he knew about himself and the people he loves.

Product Details

• File Size: 637 KB
• Print Length: 288 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1935661906
• Publisher: Bell Bridge Books (June 18, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B003STDO4O
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,918 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Excerpt from a book signing interview:


Q: "How did you learn your book had jumped to the #1 spot on Kindle's Top 100 List?"

LT: "I'm obsessive . . . not like a doorknob jiggler, bless their hearts, but enough so I'll get up at night when there's a storm and run around near-naked checking for leaks even though we have a new roof. You never really get over leaks.

"Anyway, my publisher alerts me that my book has been nominated for the Amazon Sunshine Deals and it's climbing on the list. So I get up in the night to check it like I'm turning a fertilized egg under a heat lamp. How embarrassing is that? And it's at #3. And then #2. I slept right through #1. I choked on my coffee when I saw that."

Q: "Does this obsessive trait carry over into your writing?"

LT: "Of course. I don't write, I re-write. I turn the egg over and over until it hatches."

Q: "Which leads to the obvious question: Are you currently hatching any eggs?"

LT: "How can a writer not write?"

Q: "Are you saying. . ."

LT: "Southern women rarely SAY anything. It's a culture of subtext. That's why it's so interesting."

Biography:

Born in Memphis, Lisa Turner spent her childhood either on the back of a horse or reading fiction. At times she did them simultaneously. Flannery O'Connor and James Lee Burke were her literary heroes long before she knew the term "Southern Gothic."

From the experience of managing her family's interior design firm, she earned a PhD in the peculiarities of human nature.

More recently, she and her husband bought a home in Nova Scotia where the landscape changed from cotton fields to lobster boats. She currently shuttles between the Deep South of her childhood and the wildly beautiful coast of Nova Scotia.

"But I remain a Southern woman to the bone," she says. "Here's how I know":

I've worn elbow-length gloves in a beauty contest.

The term "funeral food" makes perfect sense to me.

I can ride, shoot, fry up catfish, and I drink my Jack Daniels neat.

You can't fool me with silver plate. I know sterling when I see it. That goes for men, too.

I can thump a watermelon and know if it's sweet.


A Little Death in Dixie is Lisa Turner's debut novel.

Don't miss a television interview with Lisa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyQGxnVauJ8