Biggie Weatherford, the Miss Marple of Job's Crossing, Texas, is back in this sequel to best-selling author Nancy Bell's hilarious Biggie and the Poisoned Politician (S1085). This time around, Biggie tries to discover who killed the mortician. Shenanigans are afoot in Job's Crossing. When the three-inch heel breaks off gay police deputy Butch Jenkins' cowboy boot, thief Cooter McNutt escapes-until Aunt Vita straightarms Cooter and sits on him. Meanwhile, Biggie's 12-year-old grandson J.R. takes an interest in Rosebud's fundamentalist Voodoo church and the wondrous menus of Willie Mae, Biggie's cook. And when J.R. finds undertaker Monk Carter's crushed corpse, he helps Biggie investigate.
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" light reading, humorous "
— Evonne, 3/24/2012" Took me a few minutes to get the rhythm, but then it was a quick and fun read. "
— Sarah, 5/11/2011" Book #9 for 2010. I don't like how Bell writes some of the dialect, but these books are fun, quick reads. I did figure out who committed the murder and how very early on, but watching the why of it all unfold was what it was all about. "
— Stina, 1/9/2011" Book #9 for 2010. I don't like how Bell writes some of the dialect, but these books are fun, quick reads. I did figure out who committed the murder and how very early on, but watching the why of it all unfold was what it was all about. "
— Stina, 10/10/2010Nancy Bell lives in Pittsburg, Texas. She writes full time and lives with her cats, Gomer and Goober, in a fine old house on a tree-lined street.
Jeff Woodman is an actor and narrator. He is a winner of the prestigious Audie Award and a six-time finalist. He has received twenty Earphones Awards and was named the 2008 Best Voice in Fiction & Classics, as well as one of the Fifty Greatest Voices of the Century by AudioFile magazine. As an actor, he originated the title role in Tennessee Williams’ The Notebook of Trigorin and won the S. F. Critics’ Circle Award for his performance in An Ideal Husband. In addition to numerous theater credits on and off Broadway, his television work includes Sex and the City, Law & Order, and Cosby.