Benni has always looked back fondly to those days and hopes to recapture much of that feeling with her first visit in over a decade. The hot issue in Sugartime is the close mayoral race between a Black woman and a good ole boy.
Benni is stunned to observe the bigotry that is blatant and hostile.
The current mayor's son Toby Hunter leads a force intimidating anyone opposing the reelection of his father. This eventually forces his opponent Amen to withdraw from the race. In spite of the objection of the local authorities, Benni begins her own inquiries into the homicide. A Benni Harper mystery is always fun as readers revisit characters from the previous novels who are friends that keep growing as happens in this story. Comments and suggestions welcome.