This is a perfect blend of intriguing murder mystery and hilarious yarn, full of West Texas personalities and colloquialisms.
Pearl Ann turns up dead, and a couple of hairdressers make it their mission to find their friend’s killer. Debbie Sue and her BFF Edwina set out to make use of all the great gossip they hear at Debbie Sue’s hair salon. Throw in Debbie Sue’s hunky ex-husband, Buddy Overstreet, who just happens to be the Sheriff, and her wildly rich yet unlucky suitor, Quint, and you have some gut-busting revenge-date ideas. They had me at super glue. I grew up in these towns, with these people, and aside from the slightly over-done double names, the writing is genuine and funny. LOVE Dixie Cash, and will certainly read more of her work.

I've had this book on the TBR pile for over 3 years and just got to reading it and now I know why - it's funny yet its story line reminded me of the Stephanie Plum(by Janet Evanovich) series which I liked far better. Admittedly after having read "Heaven, Texas" by Susan E. Phillips, I was more prepared for the Texan environment, I just didn't get into the story and even when there were clearly hilarious one-liners - I just wanted to skip ahead and finish the book (could have been the 3 years playing on my mind...I dunno)...


I'd definitely recommend it to someone who enjoys humor, if only so that I can discuss why I didn't do so...

Sometimes this was LOL with "southernisms." I wanted to strangle the reader of the audiobook - too many pauses, more like caesuras-way too long for listening pace. Most of the way through the book it seemed to pick up, but maybe I just got used to it. I really really wanted to knock Debbie Sue and Buddy in the head for being so blind. Light mystery.

Four stars..if what your looking for is a Texas themed soap opera in print. The damsel in distress is saved by the hot, sexy cowboy in those oh-so tight jeans. The title is definetely the most clever thing about this book, but then once you read the description of the cowboy, you won't care about "clever".