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"Energetic start to a great new mystery series."
Reviewed by Vicky Gilpin
Posted August 16, 2004

Talbot Jefferson is often a disappointment to the memory of her prim and proper grandmother. The most recent disappointment was when she left her big city partnership to seemingly disappear in the bottom of a bottle and painting the shutters of the family home an atrocious purple. She's immediately suspicious Read more...

"Charming regional mystery"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 28, 2004

Two years ago Tal Jefferson was a high powered attorney at an influential law firm where she made partner. Her life fell apart when the court appointed her to defend Parnell Moses, but she lost the case because she didn't prepare properly for her day in court. She Read more...

"Tal Jefferson is hiding from her past"
Reviewed by Dawn Dowdle
Posted September 1, 2004

This is a terrific first book! I loved it! Tal Jefferson has returned home after a terrible loss in a capital murder case. She left her big-city law practice and has returned to the small Georgia town where she was raised. She has been hiding out in Read more...