A Plague of Kinfolks: Plague of Kinfolks, A [Mass Market Paperback]

Celestine Sibley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 1996

Atlanta columnist Kate Mulcay is running out of Southern hospitality as a pair of distant relatives prolong their surprise visit. But freeloading houseguests are the least of her problems when a neighbor is found bludgeoned to death, and the police name Kate as the prime suspect.

"Celestine Sibley is one of the South's natural wonders". --Pat Conroy, bestselling author of "Prince of Tides"

"[Sibley's] regional voice lulls us with reassurances that decent country people will survive all--just so long as there are spunky heroines like Kate Mulcay around to fight the good fight for them". -- "The New York Times" Book Review

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: HarperTorch (February 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061090492
• ISBN-13: 978-0061090493
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,242,255 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Little Frustrating, March 29, 2006

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This review is from: A Plague of Kinfolks: Plague of Kinfolks, A (Mass Market Paperback)

The reviewer is correct. I kept thinking, why is she doing this. I love the writer and there aren't many of these, but I put it down. I'll save it for hard times.
Great writer!! Unfortunate story.

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1.0 out of 5 stars well deserved, February 27, 2000

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This review is from: A Plague of Kinfolks: Plague of Kinfolks, A (Mass Market Paperback)

Any protagonist who is stupid enough to put up with what Kate Mulcay does in this book deserves the results. She doesn't make sure the relatives are actually related; she keeps being devestated by their well meaning but dreadful attempts to help around the house; but never so much as suggests that they check with her before doing things. She gives them cash to spend even when she knows that it goes for liquor instead of food, and then she hands over a credit card and doesn't require it back. When handed the perfect excuse that it's "mislaid", she neither demands nor cancels it. Besides that, I figured out the perpetrators of the murder before it even happened. I would not have finished up the book if I hadn't been hard up for reading material. The one positive point for this book is that the author has a reasonably decent writing style.