Second-Hand Stiff by Sue Ann JaffarianMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Odelia Grey is back and this time she's spending Thanksgiving with her husband, his family, her mother, and her brother. The next day, instead of hitting the black Friday sales, Odelia, her mother, and mother-in-law accompany her husband Greg's cousin Ina to a storage locker auction. When the auctioneer opens the storage contain that is up for bid, everyone is shocked to find Ina's husband Tom, dead. Ina becomes the main suspect. Odelia in tow with her fearless, mother investigate to solve the murder and clear Ina's name, and in the process Odelia and her mother can clear up their difficult past and become more of a mother/daughter.
This witty series, will keep you sitting on the couch reading. Character's are well developed, lots of humor, laugh out loud moments, and we can't forget the pets that are their that bring in so much warmth to the story. I do love the fact that the author makes this series easy to connect with, the character's are life like. She also has the main character a plus-size, and her husband is wheelchair bound. But the story doesn't focus on those two factors. The husband is very active and it doesn't take away from the story. His character is so develop that you forget he's in a wheelchair. It is so refreshing to have a heroin that isn't this perfect size three trophy wife, that keeps the perfect house, can make a seven course dinner on the spur of the moment when hubby calls and says he's bring home guest, can solve a crime without damaging her high dollar manicure. I think with Odelia and Greg, that's what makes them more relate-able, and fans can connect more to them since they appear to be more down to earth.
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