Death And The Easter Bunny

Trudy Roundtree Mystery #1

by Linda Berry

Returning to Ogeechee, Georgia, to join the local police department, Trudy Roundtree is delighted to be home once again, until an investigation into a local murder threatens to reveal small-town secrets that someone will do anything to keep hidden. Reprint.

Genres: Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Holiday, Cozy, Crime

251 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1998

About the author

Linda Berry's Trudy Roundtree novels are set in rural south Georgia, but Linda lives in Colorado, where she's a community arts activist and an insatiable theatregoer. Other published credits include poetry, plays, preschool currriculum, and a newspaper entertainment column.

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Reviews

[Carla · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a cozy mystery where the main character was actually a police woman already and it was a hoot. Set in a small town in the South with all that entails made this a really fun read. While it was during the Easter season, it didn't really play a big part in the story so I don't really agree with the title but I couldn't come up with anything better and it didn't really matter. I still really enjoyed the story.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Small town police woman is in her 30s widowed and working for her cousin. She is the only female and paving the way. They find a dead body at a fire scene and she investigates. She does this by very casually questioning the locals.

No graphic sex or violence.

[Bonita · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the rest of the books in the series.

[Jacqueline · Rating 3 out of 5]

A writer from Denver. This was her first novel.

[shanz · Rating 3 out of 5]

my dad got me it so i’m not allowed to dislike it (I didn’t anyway)

[Gail · Rating 4 out of 5]

Trudy Roundtree has come home from Atlanta to her small hometown of Ogeechee. She is the only woman in the Ogeechee Police Department, headed by her folksy cousin Hen. He spends a lot of time, giving her jobs suitable for a woman and a relative.

The son-in-law of the richest man in town dies in a fire and it turns out to be murder. Members of the police force are out due to getting caught in a stake-out in bushes filled with poisonous-itchy somethin' or other. Trudy begins asking questions....

Somewhere in this folksy image, there lies some real double dealing and crime. Jealousy, anger, betrayal and death show up as Trudy begins her detectin'. Finally the murder is solved in a suspenseful scene and a family squabble is resolved.

A nice first volume of a series. Trudy's interior voice is both appreciative and humor-filled about her town and her status as the only woman police officer.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Widowed at a young age, Trudy Roundtree returns to her hometown, where her cousin, the local police chief, reluctantly hires her as his first female officer. When a local man is found dead, Trudy--and the newspaper editor, who Trudy disliked when they were in high school together--discover that the man was murdered.

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid comfort read with a mystery that wasn't immediately obvious.

[Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book (2nd time by mistake) and found I didn't care for it very much --- too hillbilly type for me! Although I did enjoy some of the characters!

[Marti]

Passed on to me from Mom.

[Toesnorth's mom]

pretty good

[Candace Davidson]

I had to skip through a lot if the book, it was too boring to keep my attention.

[Christina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good start to a series. The twist and turns in the plot were good.