Southern Cozy Mystery Series = Perfect Beach Read!

Calling all Stephanie Plum fans!  If you are looking for a fun new series to start, I suggest ICED CHIFFON, the first Consignment Shop Mystery by Duffy Brown.

There's always something to gossip about in Savannah, Georgia, and Reagan Summerside always seems to be in the middle of it. She's busy enough running her consignment shop, the Prissy Fox, with her vivacious auntie, KiKi, but now the gossip--and the sales--are about to pick up, after a gruesome discovery...

Reagan's messy divorce has left her with nothing but a run-down Victorian and a bunch of designer clothes. Strapped for cash, Reagan makes use of the two things she has left, turning the first floor of her home into a consignment shop and filling it with the remnants of her rich-wife wardrobe.

Thans to his cunning lawyer, Walker Boone, her ex got everything else, including the Lexus--not to mention a young blonde cupcake. When Reagan finds the blonde dead in the Lexus, she's determined to beat Boone to finding the murderer. As it turns out, the gossip fiends flooding Reagan's shop can give her a lot more than just their unwanted clothes--they have information more precious than a vintage Louis Vuitton...

Zany characters, a great setting (makes me want to go to the south!), and an intriguing mystery, this one is perfect to hit the beach with!  The second in the series, KILLERS IN CRINOLINES, came out this year and is just as fun!