"DELIGHTFULLY SOUTHERN, SURPRISINGLY EDGY, AND DELICIOUSLY UNPREDICTABLE."

A Night Owl Reviews Top Pick from The Wall Street Journal bestselling author Larissa Reinhart. The second in the award-winning, Sassy and Southern Cherry Tucker humorous mystery series.

"Reinhart's country-fried mystery is as much fun as a ride on the Tilt-a-Whirl at a state fair. Her sleuth wields a paintbrush and unravels clues with equal skill and flair. Readers who like a little small-town charm with their mysteries will enjoy Reinhart's series." — Denise Swanson, New York Times bestselling author of the Scumble River and Devereaux's Dime Store mysteries

Cherry Tucker's in a stew. Art commissions dried up after her nemesis became president of the County Arts Council. Desperate and broke, Cherry and her friend, Eloise, spend a sultry summer weekend hawking their art at the Sidewinder Annual Brunswick Stew Cook-Off. When a bad case of food poisoning breaks out and Eloise dies, the police brush off her death as accidental. However, Cherry suspects someone spiked the stew and killed her friend.

Caught between helping Eloise's family and an ongoing investigation, Cherry finds herself in hot water with her deputy boyfriend, who doesn't appreciate her style of sleuthing. As Cherry calls on cook-off competitors, bitter rivals, and crooked judges, her love life steams. Meanwhile, the killer prepares to cook Cherry's goose.

"The hilariously droll Larissa Reinhart cooks up a quirky and entertaining page-turner! This charming mystery is delightfully Southern, surprisingly edgy, and deliciously unpredictable." — Hank Phillippi Ryan, Mary Higgins Clark, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity winning author

"Cherry Tucker finds trouble without even looking for it, and plenty of it finds her in Still Life in Brunswick Stew. This mystery keeps you laughing and guessing from the first page to the last. A whole-hearted five stars." — Denise Grover Swank, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author

"Southern-Fried Sleuthing...If you're a fan of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse but could do without the "supes," then you will love Reinhart's Cherry Tucker!" – Fayette Woman Magazine

Related subjects include: cozy mysteries, amateur sleuth, women sleuths, murder mystery series, whodunit mysteries (whodunnit), humorous murder mysteries, book club recommendations, amateur sleuth books, small town humor, Southern humor, comic (humorous) crime and mystery, small town and rural.

Books in the Cherry Tucker Mystery Series:

A CHRISTMAS QUICK SKETCH (prequel novella)

PORTRAIT OF A DEAD GUY

STILL LIFE IN BRUNSWICK STEW

HIJACK IN ABSTRACT

DEATH IN PERSPECTIVE

THE BODY IN THE LANDSCAPE

THE VIGILANTE VIGNETTE (novella)

A COMPOSITION IN MURDER

A VIEW TO A CHILL, A Cherry Tucker and Maizie Albright Interconnected Mystery

A MOTHERLODE OF TROUBLE (in YEAR-ROUND TROUBLE)

Other mystery series by Larissa Reinhart:

Maizie Albright Star Detective series

15 MINUTES

16 MILLIMETERS

NC-17

A VIEW TO A CHILL

17.5 CARTRIDGES IN A PEAR TREE

18 CALIBER (2020)

19 CRIMES (2021)

A Finley Goodhart Crime Caper series

THE PIG'N A POKE

THE CUPID CAPER

THE PONY PREDICAMENT (2020)

THE HEIR AFFAIR (2021)