A review by aprilleigh
Pay Dirt by Sneaky Pie Brown, Rita Mae Brown, Wendy Wray

4.0

An improvement over the previous volume, which focused a little too much on questionable history for my taste (I prefer to know where the lines are being blurred), this one gets right back to the author's strengths - an unexplained murder confuses the town, not least because no one knows the victim, but over the course of the book things move closer and closer to home. Another murder involves one of their own. It's predictable, but so well done you really don't mind. Brown's talent for making her characters feel real and fleshed out is in full swing, as even the newly introduced characters don't feel like they're quite so shiny. As another reviewer has also indicated, this time I knew who the murderer was about halfway through the book. I'm not sure if it's because of the formula Brown uses so well or because the clues were just more apparent and the red herrings less enticing than usual. I think I need to read the next few to be sure...