I happened across this book, the first of four Southern Ladies Mysteries, and found it charming. Two eighty-something sisters, An'gel and Dickce, are living a gentile life in the small town of Athena, Mississippi, happy it's August, when their duties related to various social committees are on hiatus. Immediately, trouble comes (literally) knocking on their door when an old sorority friend, Rosabelle, arrives from California, where she tells them that her children are trying to kill her. They take her in, and as soon as she's installed in one of their guest rooms, who should arrive but Rosabelle's son and daughter-in-law. Next come her daughters and two adult grandchildren. Several of these guests are rude and demanding, but the sisters' good breeding lead them to repay rudeness with kindness and they find room for all the family. When one of the guests dies in what at first looks like a freak accident, but actually isn't, then the sisters find themselves continuing to host the guests, including an unknown murderer, while the local police do their best to narrow down the suspects. I was in suspense until the very end, hoping against hope that the murderer wasn't one of the more likeable characters.
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