Double Dead — Terry Hoover

Mystery lovers - particularly those who love the South - must read Double Dead, the debut whodunnit by Terry Hoover.

It's 1961 in Charlotte, NC, a boomtown that National Geographic has dubbed the Dixie Dynamo. Square in the middle of the mystery is a prominent banker with a talent for making money and a penchant for the bottle and women of a certain ilk.

One of those women turns up dead. Did the banker kill her? Or was the bottle to blame?

This is what reporter turned private eye Steve Harlan is hired to determine before a jury makes a date for his client to get the gas.