Southern Fried — Cathy Pickens

GO HOME AT YOUR OWN RISK

Attorney Avery Andrews left her BMW behind in Columbia, South Carolina, along with her job at a high powered law firm. She's come back home to Dacus where the vehicle of choice is a pickup truck with a doc chained in the back. Avery wants time to rethink he career and her life. What she gets is a bossy great aunt drumming up clients and dragging her to social teas That's how Avery ends up hired by a local factory to hell with a messy environmental problem. But she's at Luna Lake because an old high-school classmate is trying to get her attention with a half-baked stunt, when divers fine a car containing a corpse. Now, the discovery of the dead body sweeps Avery into a red-hot case...and into the sizzling secrets of small-town life, where some people get away with murder.