Giveaway: Southern Fried by Cathy Pickens and Magnolia Stationery

** THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED ** 

I love a good murder mystery, and when it's set in the South (Darcus, SC), it's even better! The Darcus area has been home to Pickens' family for over 300 years- you just KNOW she's gonna get the details right!

This is the debut novel for Pickens, which is really surprising, as it is SO good! I just recently came across her books while at a used book store. I'm not hunting down the rest of the Avery books!

Southern Fried starts with Avery Andrews getting fired from her big city lawyer job and goes back home to Dacus to rethink her career and life. (hmmm, this is a theme recently in books I've read, must be the karma thing working). Instead of quiet retrospection time, Avery gets roped into some cases courtesy of her caring aunt. She takes on the case of Melvin Bertram, whose wife disappeared years ago, only recently to be found.and turns sleuth to try to help him out of a dire situation.

Their is lots of charm and satirical humor in the love of an ex-classmate who can't live without her, so keeps planning odd suicides (which don't work). The tale is filled with authentic characters from small towns in the South, and her locales form part of the story.

You can read an excerpt on Amazon, click here.

Check out Ms. Pickens website, for her other 4 books centered around Avery!

I'm doing some fall cleaning, so I thought one of ya'll would like some love from the South, in a little carepackage of a giveaway today!

Giveaway:

One winner will receive The Souther Fried Paperback AND a set of 8 Magnolia Notecards and a Magnolia Pocket Notebook with matching pen!

Entry:

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Contest will end on September 29th, at midnight. Winner will be picked by Random Number (random.org) on September 30th, and emailed. Package will be mailed after winner's info is received!