Review: A fun ride
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2014
Lucille, our decidedly lower middle class heroine may not speak well but she has a heart of gold and a lot of grit.  Her hugely pregnant daughter is about to be married to the son of one of her childhood acquaintances.  You could not call them friends as they prove with a shoving match at the rehearsal dinner.  So we Lucille finds the woman's body next day in the chapel, suspicion is turned her way as a possible suspect. Lucille doesn't need any more complications as she worries whether her daughter will go into labour unwed to either her former fiance who also has disappeared or the real father of her child, who just happens to be the son of Lucille's best friend.Throw in her husband who seemingly has lost interest in her, a good guy cop who has eyes for her best friend, an annoying parrot and annoying relatives for good measure.What is a decent story turns into a keystone cops comedy in the final quarter of the book and it is a ride, both figuratively and literally.I will let you read the book to find out what I mean but suffice to say, I could picture the entire sequence as a movie.  I might start mentally casting the roles later.It's a fun read and I look forward to more adventures with Lucille.