Heroine Wanda Nell Culpepper works two jobs to support her daughters and grandson in their modest trailer park home in Tullahoma, Mississippi. In this, the third in the series, Wanda Nell's brother Rusty shows up after a ten-year absence and won't say why he's come. Then some bad things start happening and soon Wanda Nell is investigating to clear her brother of a possible murder charge. The solution to the mystery lies twenty or so years in the past. Although you will find humor, salty Southern language and characters, and even a few recipes tacked on at the end, these books are by no means "cozy" if that denotes avoidance of the dark side of life. "Evans" (who is really Dean James) has a remarkably clear-sighted viewpoint on the good and the bad in Deep South culture. In Wanda Nell Culpepper he has created one of the real heroines of the New South. ( )