Southern Fried

ISBN: 0312324928

Title: Southern Fried

Author: Cathy Pickens

KDL Description:

Laid off from her job with a big-city law firm, attorney Avery Andrews returns to the small Southern town of her childhood in the hope of setting up a new practice.

Amazon Description:

Avery Andres has just been downsized from her job in a law office in a North Carolina city and has returned to her small home town to lick her wounds and consider, with hesitation, trying to set up a law practice there. She quickly gets a client or two, and immediately the company building owned by one is destroyed by arson, and the body found inside was quite probably murdered. Meanwhile, an old high-school classmate has told the entire county that he is hopelessly in love with Avery and makes several attempts at spectacular suicides, each one of them carefully set up not to work. All in all, Avery finds that small-town life is not nearly so dull as she feared. And sometimes wishes it were.