Cutting Loose in Paradise (A Panther LaRue Mystery)
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (901 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B012TPVEL2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 286 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mary Jane Ryals has lived near the northern gulf coast of Florida most of her life. Besides teaching university and college writing, she has worked as a waiter and bartender, office manager, pharmacy tech, features writer/editor, typesetter, yoga teacher, and mother. She won a Florida Book Award in 2011 for her novel Cookie & Me, and is Poet Laureate of the Big Bend of Florida. She’s trave
But they’ll also root for the underdog parts of Florida that she loves and yearns to protect.” Lucy Burdette, best-selling author of the Key West Food Critic mysteries . Readers will root for big-hearted, loose-lipped, pool-playing, hair-cutting LaRue Panther and her charming kids and friends. “Glorious writing and a good mystery aren’t the only draws to Mary Jane Ryals’ new book
But local hair stylist and single mom LaRue Panther has her doubts. LaRue and her local friends, a bartender and a journalist, are on the case to find out what really happened.. The story involves the death of a middle-aged woman who supposedly committed suicide by shooting herself in the chest. When part-Seminole LaRue is cutting the dead woman's hair in the casket, she realizes the woman's neck has been slashed and that there is no wound in the chest. Cutting Loose in Paradise is a mystery novel set in a remote island full of quirky people off the northeast coast of Florida
Ann C. Turkle said A satisfying mystery on many levels!. This mystery is satisfying in so many respects, Yes, it's a very satisfactory who-done-it driven by complex characters. But it also provides a setting that is so well realized, I found myself back on Florida's "Redneck Riviera," an area I have not visited in many years. Functioning as an undercurrent -- though not a distraction -- is the community's anxiety over the effects of the BP oil spill. Larue Panther's family is represen. Loved it! I was steered to this book by a friend and after only a few pages I was in love with these characters. They are quirky and interesting but also very believable and real, and Mary Jane Ryals has put them in a great mystery story. Anyone interested in a good who-done-it and who likes strange/original Florida novels (think Carl Hiaasen or Tim Dorsey) should try this book. Fabulously written it also has a page-turner plot and a fant. The plot will lead the reader on a fine dance before the last mask falls and the truth CYNTHIA MARVIN Mary Jane Ryal's new novel is imbued with a nostalgia for a place and way of life that is being killed off by population pressure and aggressive development. Even a reader not familiar with her poetry will recognize the poet in the author. MJ's quirky descriptions of her beloved Panhandle(and its denizens) and her keen eye for local color bring the offbeat Florida cracker society of her characters to sizzling life. LaRue Panther