Cajun Fried Felony
by Jana DeLeon
Fortune Redding is a former CIA agent. After a
leak at the agency, she was hidden in Sinful, Louisiana for her own safety.
Something happened while she was there hiding out though. She made friends, for
the first time in a long time, and found people who cared about her. Once the
sticky situation that had put Fortune in hiding was taken care of, she found
she didn’t want to leave. So she came clean with the people she had become
friends with and started a whole new life, as a PI.
This one is Janet Evanovich meets Steel Magnolias. Fortune’s friends, Ida Belle and Gertie, former military spies during Vietnam, remind me very much of the strong personalities in that classic movie. Fortune hires them to comprise a team for her new private investigation business. This is a few books into the series and Fortune is well settled into Sinful. She’s now dating Deputy Carter.
The story starts with the annual Turkey Run. Fortune assumes that’s a race for charity, but it’s a little more literal than that. When things get out of control, the body of Venus Thibodeaux, a young woman who had supposedly left town, is unearthed. Everything points toward Whiskey, the owner of the local bar, and he hires Fortune to find the truth.
Filled with colorful characters and zany happenings, this book is a hoot, and a perfect antidote to reality right now, with just enough seriousness to keep it from being utter fluff.
Fortune sums up the feel of the book, “Murder is always a big deal. But in the big scheme of things, we’re still as close to a slice of Mayberry as we’re getting. I mean, if you wave a magic wand and make Mayberry the strangest place on earth.”
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