Ruby had managed to light the kerosene lamp, and it cast a golden glow around the cabin. She'd alread y taken a shower and was sitting cross-legged on her bed, a henna-haired buddha in a floral-print caftan. There was a book on her lap, the latest Cat Who adventure; a bottle of blue nail polish and shiny nail implements on one side of her; and a box of chocolates on the other. Delicately, so as not to mar her freshly painted blue nails, she screwed the cap back on the polish bottle.
'You know,' she said, 'I could get to like this pioneer life.'
'Some pioneer,' I replied with a laugh. 'I'll bet you wouldn't be wearing that caftan if you had to spin every inch of threat that went into it.
'Oh, absolutely,' Ruby said. 'I'd go naked.' She reached for a chocolate.
Synopsis: Small-town Texas politics and the cosy murder mystery collide.
So there's a big bad bad guy up to environmental badness, and a small town standing up to him, and a fiber-dying workshop, phony legal papers, Harleys, car chases, shotgun booby traps, child abuse, llamas, eavesdropping and kerosene lanterns. Good times.
A seriously above-average cosy mystery set in Texas and written in the first-person present. I adored the protagonist and her crazy best friend, and there was quite a serious amount of placeporn going on, which y'all know floats my wee readerly kayak. I will definitely be reading another in the series.
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