Dead With the Wind is the second in a series in which two eighty-something-year-old sisters help solve murders. In this story, An'gel and Dickce have arrived at their cousin Mireille's estate prior to the wedding of Mireille's granddaughter, along with their ward, Benjy, and their cat and dog. The bride-to-be, Sondra, is as ill-tempered and self-centered as the old sisters remember. There's a lot of talk about how Sondra should have been spanked as a child. Neither her mother nor her grandmother have discouraged her behavior, and the refined An'gel almost immediately douses Sondra with water from a vase upon hearing her disparage her grandmother. It only gets worse from there: a heart attack, a strange death, and more. The fact that Sondra was due to receive a large inheritance from her father when she married seems to indicate that money is at the root of these incidents.
The story is okay, but I found myself a bit weary of the Southern hospitality "Yes ma'am," "No Ma'am," "Miss An'gel," etc. I enjoyed the first book in the series more, but I'm stopping here.
