Bless Your Heart by Leigh Dunlap
Here’s a twisty mystery you simply won’t be able to put down! Readers are immediately immersed into the setting of a Little League baseball game. Boring? Hardly! The wealthy society women of Atlanta (known as the Buckhead Betties) have young sons on the baseball team – and they are a force to be reckoned with!
Birdie Milton is one of those moms. She’s the biggest Buckhead Bettie, literally — Bigger size (14), bigger wedding ring, bigger bank account. Her eleven-year-old son, Freddie, has been called “out of the game” and she’s fit to be tied. The word “tact” is not in her vocabulary – neither is “polite.” But 4-letter words definitely are!
Atlanta moms are all strongly united through their son’s Little League baseball games – these games are serious – and in this story, dead serious!
When someone associated with their son’s team is murdered, the “gloves come off” for these cagey, calculating, snooty society moms with plenty of secrets to hide and lots to lose. Could one of them be a cold-blooded killer? If not the wives, perhaps one of their husbands?
It’s up to Detective Shay Claypool, a single mom from the other side of the track, to eliminate fiction from fact to solve this crime. Being that the Buckhead Betties are one of Atlanta’s super elite, they aren’t taking too well to Detective Claypool’s investigation and questions. They consider themselves “above the law” and Detective Claypool is an outsider – a commoner.
Reader’s will find plenty of characters they’ll love to hate! And also, plenty (and I do mean “plenty”) of motives for this unexpected murder. The victim was well-loved and admired by everyone.
When Shay digs deeper, she discovers the victim had feuds over the family business. While behind the scenes: A blackmailer bleeding someone dry. Cheating husbands and cheating wives. Affairs gone horribly wrong. A rich couple discovers they are no longer “rich.” A new woman in town eyed with suspicion. A bizarre prenuptial agreement. Drug dealing.
But as the case goes on, Detective Chay realizes that she may have a lot in common with those rich society moms after all!
Bless Your Heart by Leigh Dunlap centers on one murder in a prestigious and uppity social class, ripping them apart and shredding the remains. Readers won’t be able to look away and may even start “liking” some of the Buckhead Betties they loved to hate!
Bless Your Heart is a simply delicious mystery that will have you savoring every page. Fans of reality TV housewives, soap operas, lifestyles of the rich and famous or readers who just love a fast-paced engaging mystery, will eat this one up!
A copy of this book and cover photo provided by Crooked Lane Books.