Novelist Anne George injects murder, mayhem, and laughs into her popular mysteries. Nominated for an Agatha Award, this hilarious story of two ’60 something’ sisters discloses the deadly implications of the hasty real estate purchase. Retired Alabama college teacher Patricia Anne feels her old sister, flamboyant Mary Alice, has lost her cotton-pickin’ mind. On a whim, Mary Alice bought the Skoot ‘n’ Boot, the local nation western night place where she and her sweetheart hang out. Mary Alice insists it will be easy to perform the club-until the prior owner is available executed, gangland design, in the club’s wishing well. Suddenly the sheriff can be challenging answers, and a killer with unfinished business is certainly sending messages even positive Mary Alice can’t ignore. With her dramatic feeling of timing, narrator Ruth Ann Phimister brings about both wise-cracking fun and the nailbiting suspense.