It's back to the not-so-quiet town of Sinful for the second Miss Fortune Mystery by Jana Deleon, Lethal Bayou Beauty. A former (and not well liked) resident is returning to her home town and the only one happy to see her is her mother. She is heading up the beauty contest part of the Summer Festival so Fortune (hiding out as a former beauty queen, remember?) has been enlisted to help. Needless to say, she is soon dismissed as not knowing much about make up and so on, but then, Pansy turns up dead and Fortune, as the newest resident, is blamed. If not by law enforcement, then certainly the townsfolk. Enter again the Geritol Mafia (two women who are more than they appear to be) to help prove her innocence (and find the real killer). Sort of a cross between Miss Marple and the Keystone Kops ...

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