Review: Funny, Delightful Mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2014
When Bubba Snoddy finds his ex-fiancée lying dead on his property, he knows that he's in for a world of trouble. After all, their last meeting three years earlier was less than friendly. Now, the good folks of Pegramville, Texas are wondering if Bubba might be a tad guilty. After all, he had caught his fiancée in bed with another man.Bubba and the Dead Woman is the first installment in this funny, delightful series. Bubba is a decent, average guy who tolerates his feisty, gun-loving, poker-playing mother, Miss Demetrice. The plot had enough twists and turns to keep me interested, and the tone, pacing, and humor was great. Miss Demetrice is a hoot and although Bubba keeps landing in jail, the place seems more like a social club than an oppressive detention center.As with other humorous cozies, logic was stretched at some points. I don't know much about small Texas towns, but when the jailor, who believes in Bubba's innocence, allows him to sneak out of jail (accompanied by the jailor and another prisoner), to interview people, I had to work hard to suspend disbelief. Plenty of cozy mystery fans, however, will go along with the lapses in logic for the sheer fun of finding out what happens next. The ending is completely satisfying and, honestly, I didn't want the story to end.