Bless Your Heart by Leigh DunlapMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
"Bless You Heart" is my third 10-star book of the year. It is a murder mystery that I don't think anyone will be able to figure out, and it was just wonderful. Most people who love books say they can't put it down and just have to keep reading until they are done. Me? I needed to prolong my pleasure for as long as I could.
This is Ms. Dunlap's debut novel, and I hope I will soon be reading another book by this author. As a matter of fact, I would love to see this become a series, perhaps featuring some of the other Buckhead Betties as well as Shay and Dub!
This book has everything I and so many others enjoy about Southern Fiction - it's not to say that Northern women can't be like this, but those Northern women don't seem to have the same panache with their back-stabbing/back-biting, bless their little hearts!
This book is filled with mean men, bitchy women, rude children, and a murder mystery (or two!)
The people you are going to dislike the most will get their just desserts, and the twist in this novel you will never see coming.
I LOVED THIS BOOK! The characters are incredibly real, the descriptions are spot on, and everything about this book is truly unique.
*ARC was supplied by the publisher Crooked Lane Books, the author, and NetGalley, as well as Edelweiss/ATTL.
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DESCRIPTION : "Motherhood and murder link five very different women when a working-class detective clashes with wealthy moms in this upmarket thriller in the vein of May Cobb and Jeneva Rose.
Anderson Tupper, a member of one of Atlanta’s richest families, has been murdered in the dugout of the Little League field where he was a volunteer coach, and it’s up to Detective Shay Claypool, a single mother from the other side of town, to find his killer.
With the exclusive area of Buckhead threatening to secede from the city of Atlanta and take its tax revenue with it, Shay is under pressure to solve the murder of one of Buckhead’s own. Accustomed to handling drug dealers and prostitutes, she must now contend with an even more sinister group: the Buckhead Betties, the insufferably entitled women of Georgia’s most affluent zip code. One of them might be a murderer, but who? Is it the old-money queen of Buckhead? The mysterious new girl in town? The drug-dealing trophy wife?
It seems secrets and lies are as plentiful as luxury handbags in Atlanta and everyone’s guilty of something. Shay’s investigation will make her examine her own prejudices and discover that, as a woman and a mother, she might not be that different from the Betties after all. And if she isn’t careful, they just might take her down with them."
Anderson Tupper, a member of one of Atlanta’s richest families, has been murdered in the dugout of the Little League field where he was a volunteer coach, and it’s up to Detective Shay Claypool, a single mother from the other side of town, to find his killer.
With the exclusive area of Buckhead threatening to secede from the city of Atlanta and take its tax revenue with it, Shay is under pressure to solve the murder of one of Buckhead’s own. Accustomed to handling drug dealers and prostitutes, she must now contend with an even more sinister group: the Buckhead Betties, the insufferably entitled women of Georgia’s most affluent zip code. One of them might be a murderer, but who? Is it the old-money queen of Buckhead? The mysterious new girl in town? The drug-dealing trophy wife?
It seems secrets and lies are as plentiful as luxury handbags in Atlanta and everyone’s guilty of something. Shay’s investigation will make her examine her own prejudices and discover that, as a woman and a mother, she might not be that different from the Betties after all. And if she isn’t careful, they just might take her down with them."
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