Friday, July 28, 2023

Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross


Started: 7/27/2023

Finished: 7/28/2023

Year: 1999

Pages: 272

Genre: mystery

Grade: B-

Reason for reading: reread to start the series

Type: Paperback

Blurb (from Amazon): "Miss Julia, a recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster in tow and unceremoniously announces that the child is the bastard son of Miss Julia's late husband. Suddenly, this longtime church member and pillar of her small Southern community finds herself in the center of an unseemly scandal-and the guardian of a wan nine-year-old whose mere presence turns her life upside down.

"With razor-sharp wit and perfect "Steel Magnolia" poise, Miss Julia speaks her mind indeed-about a robbery, a kidnapping, and the other disgraceful events precipitated by her husband's death. Fast-paced and charming, with a sure sense of comic drama, a cast of crazy characters, and a strong Southern cadence, Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind will delight readers from first page to last."


Opinion: So Julia is still annoying (I read this back in 2009) but I did not dislike this book as much as I did. The mystery is still a clever one.

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