num_pages: 280
description: Laugh-out-loud funny and as Southern as sweet tea and cheese grits***A Daphne Du Maurier finalist The Emily finalist Dixie Kane Memorial Winner and Night Owl Review top pick***In Halo Georgia folks know Cherry Tucker as big in mouth small in stature and able to sketch a portrait faster than buckshot rips from a ten gauge  but commissions are scarce. So when the well-heeled Branson family wants to memorialize their murdered son in a coffin portrait Cherry scrambles to win their patronage from her small town rival. As the clock ticks toward the deadline Cherry faces more trouble than just a controversial subject. Between ex-boyfriends her flaky family an illegal gambling ring and outwitting a killer on a spree Cherry finds herself painted into a corner shell be lucky to survive.Related subjects include: cozy mysteries women sleuths murder mystery series whodunit mysteries (whodunnit) humorous murder mysteries book club recommendations amateur sleuth books small town humor Southern humor comic (humorous) crime and mystery small town and rural.Books in the Cherry Tucker Humorous Mystery Series:QUICK SKETCH (novella in HEARTACHE MOTEL) PORTRAIT OF A DEAD GUY (#1)STILL LIFE IN BRUNSWICK STEW (#2)HIJACK IN ABSTRACT (#3) DEATH IN PERSPECTIVE (#4)THE BODY IN THE LANDSCAPE (#5)THE VIGILANTE VIGNETTE (novella)A COMPOSITION IN MURDER (#6)A VIEW TO A CHILL (novella)
language: English
title: Portrait of a Dead Guy
publisher: Past Perfect Press