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Mama Saves A Victim (Nora Deloach Mama Detective)

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Mama lives in a small southern town, and her daughter and partner in sleuthing, Simone, lives in Atlanta and works as star researcher for a successful attorney. Their fourth mystery begins when a young woman runs in front of Simone's car, refuses to give her identity, then disappears from the hospital. The investigation leads to two birth parents who recently reunited with adopted children, then Simone begins to receive threatening phone calls. Many secrets are uncovered in finding the young woman's identity, including Simone's own repressed childhood memory.

As always, Mama's good cooking sustains them through it all. Never read a Mama mystery on an empty stomach.

Although I'm a fan of Mama and Simone, I didn't rate this book much.
Whilst the central character and her family are engaging and well drawn, I found the plot (which needs to work in a detective novel) rather disappointing. The start was intriguing, and the mystery of the vanished girl certainly made me want to read on, but the solution was too much of a coincidence to convince. ... And the side drama(the death of Mama's cousin) just petered out.
Plus some sloppy editing causing confusion with the girls' names, and the result was a read that wasn't as good as it could (and should ) have been.

I'll read some more books by this author because I've read some by her that were better than this one, but still.

Mama can do better!