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This was a fun book to read. I really enjoyed the characters and the setting. I liked learning about the times of the 1930s and the location of the state of Alabama from the book. The mystery was a simple one yet entertaining and the way it was told reminded me of Rita Mae Brown's works. I've really enjoyed Albert's other series featuring China Bayles and the way she wrote this book seemed a different style from that series, but it was still an enjoyable one. I look forward to reading more about
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The Dahlia gardening club in fictional Darling, Alabama has just inherited a new club house. They become involved in trouble at the bank(problematic since it is 1930), an escaped convict and a dead body. There are 12 members of the Dahlias, plus all the other characters, and I had trouble keeping everyone straight. The only people I knew for certain who they were without having to look in the index in the front,was the three main characters Ophelia, Verna and Lizzy. The book is also really slow.
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It took me a while to get into this book, but once the characters were established and the mystery began, I couldn't put it down. It was a good cozy mystery, and I will definitely read more in this series.
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Sep 24, 2014
Kimberly
marked it as to-read
