★★★¾
GENRE: Fiction
SUBJECT: self-assertion, family, political corruption
SETTING: Guthrie GA
CHARACTERS: Dempsey Killebrew, T Carter Berryhill III, Carter Berryhill, Ella Kate
DATE READ: November 9 - November 27
NO. OF PAGES: 680
Off the Shelf (pre-2012)? Source?: no, Public Library Large Print
CATEGORY: Extra curricular activites
PLOT:..........................................3.5
CHARACTERIZATION:..................3.5
TOPICS:......................................3.5
STYLE:.........................................4
ORIGINALITY:..............................3.5
ADDICTIVENESS:.........................4
OWNERSHIP:...............................4
THRESHOLD QUALITY:..................4
Average.....................................................................3.75
Dempsey Killebrew, Georgetown Law grad, has been caught up in a DC scandal at the lobbyist where she was employed. Fired and without means to get a good job for the near future, Dempsey heads to her father's ancestral home (he just inherited) to hide out and make the house ready for sale. Her arrival in the small town of Guthrie GA is not met with applause (not that she was expected it but she didn't expect hostility either.)
While nursing her wounds, she is tracked down and threatened by the FBI to cooperate in a sting to catch the head of the lobby (her old boss) and a dirty congressman. At the same time, the house needs not just a coat of paint but major renovations which don't make an irascible elderly cousin/squatter very happy.
The book was fun and entertaining and caused some very heated discussion at my book club.
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