Charlaine Harris - Sweet and Deadly
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Harris writes neatly and with assurance, and she avoids the goo that makes equivalent books so sticky.
The New York Times Book Review
Packs a perennial punch. It offers a rarity in popular fiction: an unromanticized portrait of a Southern girl.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Introducing an author of rare talents, this mystery is set in a small town on the Mississippi Delta that Harris makes excitingly realHarris artfully keeps the mask on the killer until the stunning conclusion.
Publishers Weekly
Sweet and Deadly combines astute depiction of a Southern town with a crackling good mystery plot Sweet and Deadly has a little of everything: rich regional authenticity, good dialogue, interesting characters instead of stereotypes, and taut suspense. The heroine is a self-sufficient woman who can shoot a gun and has true grit. The sheriff is a well-drawn character and so is the killer, whose motive will stun the reader. Charlaine Harris has a great future as a writer.
Savannah News-Press
Sweet and Deadly is billed as a Southern mystery, and it does have that slow, sittin-in-the-shade quality as it lazily rolls to a shocker ending.
The Des Moines Register
As much novel as mystery, it explores the complex characters and secrets of a small Southern town.
The Wichita Eagle-Beacon
Charlaine Harris is a name to remember, not only because she has written an engrossing first novel about multiple murders but also because she has set that mystery in a small Southern town that Southern readers will find familiar and credible.
The Macon Telegraph & News
Engaging. Harriss style has a charm and ease that remind one of Anne Tyleroriginal and surprising. Traces of gothic romance add to the books unusual flavor.
The Christian Science Monitor
Praise for Charlaine Harriss
Southern Vampire series
featuring Sookie Stackhouse
The goofy charm of Harriss world, with its humor and occasional terror, is what makes Dead Until Dark so delightful.
The Denver Post
Harris brings off this blend of mystery and vampires better than most.
San Francisco Chronicle
A fun, fast, funny, and wonderfully intriguing blend of vampire and mystery thats hard to put down, and should not be missed.
Susan Sizemore, author of the Laws of the Blood series
Fans of Laurell K. Hamiltons Anita Blake looking for a lighter version of the vampire huntress should cotton to Sookie StackhouseConsistent, well-built characters and a strong, action-packed plot that will keep readers guessing to the end distinguish this frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy.
Publishers Weekly
Praise for
Charlaine Harriss
Harper Connelly Mysteries
Too much fun.
Wilmington (NC) Star News
Harris debuts a series that just might surpass all her others in popularityWill have readers dying for more.
Booklist
Fast pacing, excellent character development, and a strong story lineThis fabulous opening gambit affirms that every series Charlaine Harris creates is utterly fantastic.
Midwest Book Review
Harris delivers a knuckle-gnawing tale, populated with well-developed, edgy characters. A nifty puzzle towards the end will challenge even the most jaded mystery buffs.
Publishers Weekly
Has all the warmth and finesse of [the authors] Southern vampire seriesas well as a good deal of their down-home Southern charm.
Roundtable Reviews
DEAD UNTIL DARK
LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS
CLUB DEAD
DEAD TO THE WORLD
DEAD AS A DOORNAIL
Berkley Prime Crime books by Charlaine Harris
SWEET AND DEADLY
SHAKESPEARES LANDLORD
SHAKESPEARES CHAMPION
SHAKESPEARES TROLLOP
SHAKESPEARES COUNSELOR
GRAVE SIGHT
GRAVE SURPRISE
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.
SWEET AND DEADLY
A Berkley Prime Crime Book / published by arrangement with the author
Copyright 1981 by Charlaine Harris Schulz.
Excerpt from All Together Dead 2007 by Charlaine Harris Schulz.
Cover art by Diane Fenster.
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To Hal, who made this possible
S HE PASSED A dead dog on her way to the tenant shack.
It was already stiff, the legs poker-straight in rigor. It had been a big dog, maybe dun-colored; with only a quick glimpse, Catherine could not be sure. It was covered in the fine powdery dust that every passing vehicle threw up from the dirt road in the dry Delta summer.
In her rearview mirror she saw the cloud raised by her passage hanging in the air after she had passed, a cloud dividing endless rows of cotton. But the road was too poor to allow many backward glances.
She wondered briefly why someone had been driving so fast on the caked and rutted dirt that he had not seen the dog in time to swerve.
A sideways look at the cotton told Catherine that it would make a sad crop this year. The heat had lasted too long, unbroken by rain.
This land was Catherines, had been her great-grandfathers; but Catherine rented it out as her father had done. She was glad she did as she recalled her grandfathers irascibility in bad years, when she had ridden with him across the place, as cotton planters called their acres.
She didnt remember the heat of those dim summers equaling the ferocity of this one. Even this early in the morning, with dawn not too long past, Catherine was beginning to sweat. Later in the day the glare would be intolerable, without considerable protection, to all but the swarthiest. To someone of Catherines whiteness of skin it would be disastrous.
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