Playing the Devil
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Reporter and bridge player Wendy Winchester once again plays ace detective when a country club member is murdered in a hot tub . . .
Now an investigative reporter for the Rosalie Citizen in the Mississippi River port of Rosalie, Wendy still likes to unwind over a game of cards. Following the demise of the Rosalie Bridge Club, she's started her own group at the Rosalie Country Club. During the first meeting of the Country Club Bridge Players, the dummy has barely been laid down when another dummy gets in a scuffle at the bar across the room. Bridge player Carly Ogle's husband Brent is at it again.
After the club's new female golf pro breaks up the fight, Brent storms off to soak in a hot tub. But Carey soon finds the bullying Brent dead in the water, clubbed over the head with the pestle the barkeep uses to crush leaves for mint juleps.
Racist, sexist, homophobic, and an all-around lout, Brent made enough enemies to fill a bridge tournament. So Wendy has to play her cards right to get the story—and stay out of hot water long enough to put the squeeze on the killer . . .
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In Lee's entertaining sequel to 2019's Grand Slam Murders, investigative reporter Wendy Winchester is playing bridge at the Rosalie (Miss.) Country Club when a storm causes a power outage, permitting someone to do in the town bully, Brent Ogle, in the club's outdoor hot tub. Brent's long-suffering wife, who discovers the body, alerts Wendy, who phones her police chief father, Captain Bax, and her beau, Ross Rierson, of the Rosalie PD. Amateur sleuth Wendy lends a hand in the ensuing investigation, which focuses on multiple suspects, each a distinctive character. Could two or more of them be colluding to rid themselves of a braggart who rarely failed to humiliate and enrage those around him? Lee does a good job rendering Southern speech patterns in the conversations between Wendy and her friend Merleece. Readers who can accept the premise that the victim would be fool enough to stay outside in a hot tub during an electrical storm are in for a treat.
