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loved it! : I love the lighthearted read her books are considering they are a mystery, Love her characters. I feel like I can walk right into Salt Lick Texas and into the beauty shop and sit down and have a few laughs with them.
I picked this book up at the library randomly and was surprised and pleased at how much I enjoyed it,
One question, though, to those who've read it: How did the husbands know to come and rescue the "detectives" at the funeral home I feel like a page was missing.
I enjoyed the characters and their interactions, When they got to Nashville and I totally identified with the places and locations she included,
When someone makes a killing in the country music business, it's time to call in Debbie Sue and Edwina the Domestic Equalizers whose motto is, "don't get mad, get evidence.
" The career of former Queen of Country Music Darla Denman ain't what it used to be, No more big arenas she's lucky to fill a barroom and now she's forced to tour by bus! with the detestable Roxie Jo, current wife of Darla's manager/exhusband.
So when her rattletrap tour bus gives up the ghost outside tiny Salt Lick, Texas, the faded Nashville star's thrilled to find loyal fans and sympathetic ears in Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina PerkinsMartin.
But when her nemesis and upstart backup singer Roxie Jo turns up dead in her dressing room which bears an uncanny resemblance to a cleaning supply closet Darla finds herself in more trouble than a Dixie Chick in merry old England.
Luckily Debbie Sue and Edwina are not only the proud owners of Salt Lick's best beauty parlor but they also moonlight as private detectives! And if the Domestic Equalizers can't get to the bottom of a murderous musical mess, then no one can!
There's really not much to say about a Dixie Cash book, except sit back, relax, and enjoy yourself! I love these little escapes from the real world, and this one was like having a sleepover with great friends I haven't seen in a while.
Edwina and Debbie Sue were in this one a bit more than the last book, which was great I love their friendship, and while I like the "new" characters that are introduced in each book, these two ladies are the reason I started reading this author.
Darla Denman is wonderful, just the right amount of worldweary exfamous person looking for a comeback, She meshed wonderfully with the Domestic Equalizers, perhaps because she's much closer in age to Debbie Sue and Edwina I think she might be a bit older.
Her exhubby and manager is wellwritten and doesn't come off like a complete idiot, which he certainly could have, The authors wisely have wisely made him very aware of his new bride's faults, and they also show him wishing that things were different, either with her or with his ex.
It feels very real, and sets up a nice lovetriangle of sorts,
The only thing that was disappointing was the whodunit part I had it figured out pretty much after the prologue, Then again, I don't read these for the mystery I read them for the humor, the friendship, and the love story, I will give the ladies credit for taking chances there are some who probably will be unhappy with the reveal, Not me, of course, and I look forward to the next book! At least, I hope there's a next book, this one had a "they all lived happily ever after" line in the epilogue, and that worries me, They can't stop now!
When someone makes a killing in the country music business, it's time to call in Debbie Sue and Edwinathe Domestic Equalizerswhose motto is, "Don't get mad, get evidence.The career of former Queen of Country Music, Darla Denman, ain't what it used to be, No more big arenasshe's lucky to fill a barroomand now she's forced to tour by bus! with the detestable Roxie Jo, current wife of Darla's manager/exhusband.
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So when her rattletrap
tour bus gives up the ghost outside tiny Salt Lick, Texas, the faded Nashville star's thrilled to find loyal fans and sympathetic ears in Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina PerkinsMartin.
But when her nemesis and upstart backup singer Roxie Jo turns up dead in her dressing roomwhich bears an uncanny resemblance to a cleaningsupply closetDarla finds herself in more trouble than a Dixie Chick in merry old England.
Luckily Debbie Sue and Edwina are not only the proud owners of Salt Lick's best beauty parlor but they also moonlight as private detectives! And if the Domestic Equalizers can't get to the bottom of a murderous musical mess, then no one can! It was a lighthearted read
It ended rather abruptly.
I will read another book by this author to see if they are all like this one, A Another great book by Dixie Cash! I absolutely love this series! Edwina and Debbie Sue are always getting themselves in trouble, This time they get wrapped up in a country singer's comeback tour, Murder is involved with so many possible suspects, And or course Debbie Sue and Edwina think they can help solve it! I love all the laugh out loud moments this series offers.
This is definitely a series I will reread many times! This book doesn't pretend to be a great piece of literature, but rather a quirky little easytoread book that is great as a summer beach read.
It did serve its purpose, as I enjoyed it as a lightreading chiclit, and found myself chuckling a couple of times, Darla Denman, a faded Nashville country singer is on a comeback tour with her exhusband manager, Bob, and his new child bride who is supposed to be her leadin singer.
While in their dilapidated van heading for a telethon performance, they find themselves stranded in Salt Lick, Texas, with no money, Debbie Sue allows them to stay in her vacant rental home and Edwina allows them to use her husband Vic's vehicle while he is out of town.
But the show must go on, When the two back up singers bail and accept a ride from a trucker heading back to Nashville, Darla asks Debbie Sue and Edwina to step in.
The women are excited about being in the show they only have to lip sync but their opportunity is lost when Roxie, the young wife, is found dead in her dressing room with a nail file in her throat.
Darla confesses to the murder because she thinks Bob did it,
This is a job for the Domestic Equalizers! Along with their husbands, who learned after their past escapade in NYC that they can't be trusted out of town on their own, they hop a flight to Nashville to apprehend the real killer.
After the usual madcap mayhem they typically find themselves in, the truth that is revealed shocks even Edwina, who thought she had heard it all.
I have really enjoyed the series of books from Dixie Cash, I hope the sisters will continue writing!
The expressions and the characters Debbie Sue and Edwina are hilarious, When I picked this book up I was under the mistaken impression that it was a mystery, I knew it would have comedy in, but I honestly thought it would be a funny mystery like the Stephanie Plum books, It turns out, this book is ChickLit, Now, if youre a ChickLit lover then thats great, but I am most definitely not, The mystery did finally crop up around page, but it was too late to win me over, Especially when it wasnt even a serious mystery,
The setup for Darla and her gang was humorous, but I dont think I found it as funny as I should have.
I had a hard time liking most of the characters and found myself feeling sorry for Bob, I really dont think pity was what the author was going for, but it was what I felt, Poor Bob was stuck cleaning up the messes of two women who didnt care about him the way he deserved, I felt so bad for him because he spent his whole life caring for those women, and they did nothing but undervalue him and cheat on him.
I liked Debbie Sue and Edwina for the most part, but their over the top Southernness really started to grate on me.
I know they were in Texas, but come on, Plus, Edwina was constantly “on” and snarky, It was exhausting and irritating because I just wanted her to stop and act normal for a minute, But no, it was constant jokes and zaniness and running around calling her best friend “Dippitydo”, It seems like when a book tries so hard to be zany and funny that it has the opposite effect on me and turns me off instead.
I found myself irritated by Roxies characterization in the book, She was so bitchy and so mean that it made the characters who felt loyal to her look like fools, If the author had given her some depth, some small trait of hidden niceness, then I could have understood how the characters could find it difficult to give up on her entirely.
But there wasnt anything like that, She was practically a caricature with her over the top divaness and how vicious she was, It made me respect the characters that put up with her less, Especially Bob.
The mystery finally made an appearance around page, but it still wasnt the focus I thought it would be, There was no real investigating or intriguing clues found, Edwina and Debbie Sue just fell into the answer for the mystery and the villain helpfully spilled his/her guts, It was just disappointing all around, Plus, when I read the back of the book and thought it was a mystery I thought that the investigators would be the main characters.
But it turns out that even though there were sections from their POVs, they werent the focus of the book, It was Darla and her crazy life and comeback that was,
I guess my main point for this review was that I thought this book was something that it wasnt and I couldnt help but be critical because it wasnt.
Those unmet expectations can be a killer, If youre interested in this book and do like ChickLit then theres a good chance you wont be disappointed like I was.
Favorite Quote:
“Ed, I dont want you embarrassing us, ”
“How could it embarrass us if Im the one singing”
“Because Im the one wholl have to beat the shit out of you and that will embarrass me.
originally posted on sitelinkFiction Vixen, This is a good series, this book is not as fast paced as the firstbooks, I've read others by this author and enjoy them, I always enjoy anything from Dixie Cash, Fun reads in between something more intense, They are funny. I rarely give a bookstars, but I couldn't resist, This book was fresh, funny and laughoutloud hysterical, The mystery kept me guessing right up til the very end, Great story! I look forward to reading more books by Dixie Cash, Good easy reading, but nothing that takes much thought! This is a murder mystery where the murder doesn't even happen until the last/of the book.
Most of it is just background information about how nasty the one murdered was, There is a surprising switch at the end of the book that I didn't see coming, Probably should have but that it what I love about DIxie Cash, I get wrapped up on the humor, characters, and the witty one liners I forget about the "mystery" the Domestic Equalizers are trying to solve.
I loved this book all the way through until the very end, The twist at the end was too bizarre for me to even wrap my head around and seemed totally unnecessary, I usually love the books in this series and I was patiently waiting for this one to come out and I am sad that I was disappointed at "whodunit".
Hoping that the next book gets back on track! Quick, funny summer read Cute but predictable
I just love this series, The hilarious hijinx these characters end up in is always entertaining, This was a nice easy read to pass the time, Love these two women detectives running and agency and running a salon and how well they get along together, I missed the tons of laughs in this book but caught myself smiling every now and then they do some crazy things like play poker with candy bars.
LOL I love hairdressers and I love amateur sleuths and I love Southern women, but the crime to be solved in this book didn't even occur until more than twothirds of the way through the book.
And it's not like the build up to it was gripping, Disappointing. .