Cassandra King writes:
"I was hooked from the first scene, one of
the most intriguing, and funniest, I've ever read. With this rollicking
debut novel, Sharman Ramsey shines as THE bright new star in Southern
fiction."
Cassandra King, author of The Sunday Wife
and Same Sweet Girls
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Janis Owens writes:
Sharman Ramsey
writes with the full-frontal charm of a women so in love with her culture
that she makes you love it more. Mint Juleps and Murder celebrates all that is wonderful in the South, past, present and future:
food, friends, and family, with a spice of intrigue, a dash of history, and
many pauses for laughter.
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For interviews, speaking events for Sharman Ramsey on her novels, writing historical fiction, cooking Southern, talks on southern culture, manners and etiquette and book signings, please contact:
Kathie Bennett
Magic Time Literary Agency™
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Two formerly estranged, newly
widowed sisters, Dabney Palmer Ransom and Dr. Sophia Palmer Rankin use
Wayfarer, the family plantation, as their gimmick and finagle their way
onto the Dishing It Network
. They become stars--WHO CANNOT COOK! Palmer, Cox County,
Alabama, a former ghost town, thirty miles from Selma, Alabama, becomes a
bee hive of activity. Organic gardens are planted by the Master Gardeners
of the county. The sisters award prizes for the victory gardens planted
in gardens throughout the county. Guest cooks from all walks of life come
as guests on the show. Sightseers come from all
the world come to
visit.
Ruby
T of Ruby T’s Roadhouse sets her sights on being a guest on
Partyin’ when her idol,
Diamond, famous for his New
Orleans Restaurant and
Cajun cooking who is also a star on the
Dishing It Network, comes to
be on the show.
How could Ruby T know that it
was Dabney’s life’s dream (other than being a star on the Dish It Up
Network and write a romance novel with Flavio on the cover) to sing and
dance with Sadie Summer, a former abused wife who once sang with her
husband Eli Summer? Sadie’s appearance has been arranged by Ruby’s cousin
the movie star S.Tee for a Charity Revue to benefit the “homeless,
hopeless, helpless and hungry.” Dabney discovers a weakness for blackmail
and Ruby T winds up on the Diamond segment
The
participants of the Charity Revue bond through the preparations for the
charity revue and two lonely women find a new lease on life with the
unlikely friendships and adventure they stumble into.
Mix in
the son of a prostitute third
cousin once removed and drug lord who was adopted out and now returns to
the family fold with the supposed suicide of cousin Palmer Watson.
Stir in the international attention now focused on an area where once
nefarious activities could operate successfully under the radar and you
have mystery and adventure. Then dish up Gavin Crenshaw, the
anesthesiologist for Dabney’s colonoscopy and Harvey Banks, retired judge
and president of the Cox County
Master Gardeners,
and you've got a spicy romance.
Other
than Dabney’s natural talent to just “piss people off,” why would a
homicidal maniac target this genealogist, star of the
Dishing It Network, geriatric
sex symbol, and soon to be published romance writer?
The rich history of this neglected area comes alive
in this "what if" story. Mint Juleps and Murder is a
reading romp with memorable characters and settings from New Orleans,
Louisiana to Cox County, Alabama. Combining Ann George Southern
Sisters mystery with Fannie Flagg’s downhome humor, friendship, family and
love triumph in this unexpected second life of once estranged sisters.
Mint Juleps and Murder is the first of a series of mysteries/adventures..
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