PORTRAIT OF A DEAD GUY - Tecno-Libro

Laugh-out-loud funny and as Southern as sweet tea and cheese grits The tone of this marvelously cracked book is not unlike Sophie Littlefield s brilliant A Bad Day for Sorry, as author Reinhart dishes out shovelfuls of ribald humor and mayhem. it takes a rare talent to successfully portray a beer-and-hormone-addled artist as a sympathetic and worthy heroine, but Reinhart pulls it off with tongue-in-cheek panache. Mystery Scene Magazine in Halo, Georgia, folks know Cherry Tucker as big in mouth, small in stature, and able to sketch a portrait faster than buckshot rips from a ten gauge but commissions are scarce. So when the well-heeled Branson family wants to memorialize their murdered son in a coffin portrait, Cherry scrambles to win their patronage from her small town rival. . As the clock ticks toward the deadline, Cherry faces more trouble than just a controversial subject. Between e