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Who Left that Body in the Rain? (Thoroughly Southern Mysteries, No. 4) Paperback – December 3, 2002

by Patricia Sprinkle (Author)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
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Sixty-something Southerner MacLaren Yarbrough keeps busy as a county magistrate, a co-owner of Yarbrough’s Feed, Seed and Nursery, and a loving wife and mother.  But her penchant for snooping around in other people’s business often lands her up to her neck in murder…

 

In Hopemore, Georgia, good ol’ boy Skye MacDonald lives life large––as a dedicated family man, back-slapping civic leader, and flamboyantly successful owner of a local automobile empire.  Very little happens in this cozy town without Skye’s full knowledge and participation.  So the whole community is shocked when his body is found in a muddy road, run over by his own car.

 

Judge MacLaren Yarbrough and her husband, Joe Riddley, have known the MacDonalds for years.  So they can’t help but get involved in this baffling murder investigation, especially when it produces more questions than answers: Why has Skye’s son skipped town?  How many secrets was Skye keeping?  And…

 

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    304 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    Berkley
  4. Publication date
    December 3, 2002
  5. Dimensions
    4 x 0.75 x 6.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0451207580
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0451207586
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“Who Left That Body in the Rain? charms, mystifies, and delights. As Southern as Sunday fried chicken and sweet tea. Patricia Sprinkle’s Hopemore is as captivating—and as filled with big hearts and big heartaches—as Jan Karon’s Mitford. Come for one visit and you’ll always return.”—Carolyn Hart

 

“Ms. Sprinkle has created an heirloom quilt. Each piece of patchwork is unique and with its own history, yet they are deftly stitched together with threads of family love and loyalty, simmering passion, deception and wickedness, but always with optimism embued with down-home Southern traditions. A novel to be savored while sitting on a creaky swing on the front porch, a pitcher of lemonade nearby, a dog slumbering in the sunlight.”—Joan Hess

 

“Authentic and convincing. This series is a winner.”—Tamar Myers

 

About the Author

Patricia Sprinkle grew up in North Carolina and northern Florida, graduated from Vassar College, and spent a winter writing in the Scottish Highlands before settling in Atlanta. Although as an adult she has also lived in Chicago and Miami, her mysteries and novels reflect her love for and the strength of her Southern roots. Sprinkle is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. Contact her at patriciasprinkle@hotmail.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley; Reprint edition (December 3, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0451207580
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0451207586
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4 x 0.75 x 6.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 40 ratings

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Patricia Sprinkle

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Like to gamble? Read one of my twenty humorous southern mysteries! Written in the tradition of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, or Patricia Wentworth, they are strong in plot as well as character, with all the clues you need to solve them. In each of my mystery series, though, I am wagering you can't solve the mystery before my female amateur sleuth. Want to bet you can? Let me know if you succeed.

Raised in the South and spending most of my life there, I love mild winters, sweet tea, Coca-Cola, warm beaches, and strong women. I also love children and helping make this a better world for them. That's why my mysteries, novels, and even non-fiction combine these ingredients. Set in the contemporary south, my fiction depicts women growing stronger as they deal with issues such as caregiving, widowhood, divorce, alcoholism, drugs, and abuse. In Hold Up the Sky, as four women with dark secrets can produce together in a steaming Georgia kitchen, they discover that true strength comes not from independence but from interdependence. In Carley's Song, as young Carley Marshall comes of age in a North Carolina preacher's home, she learns there are many kinds of love, not all of them kind.

But southerners love humor, too, so pirate skeletons tumble out of a family closet in Sins of the Fathers. A former boyfriend shows up to complicate MacLaren Yarbrough's marriage in When Will the Dead Lady Sing? In Murder in the Charleston Manner, a woman is murdered in her own side yard because Charlestonians are too polite to look out their northside windows. In Who Invited the Dead Man?, a body is discovered behind a screen at newly-appointed Judge MacLaren Yarbrough's party just after she has ordered the police chief, "Don't look back there. I put up that screen to hide things I don't want seen."

Women Who Do Too Much and Children Who Do Too Little (non-fiction) both are practical , sometimes humorous guides to reducing stress for women and teaching practical household skills to children.

And Our Cherished Things is a book in which to record your own cherished possessions and the stories that make them special. One woman described it: "Where I'm telling the kids what not to put in my estate sale, and why."

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M. C. Crammer
5.0 out of 5 stars Sprinkle creates a vivid sense of location --
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2004
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A small town in Georgia. Her "detective" "Mac" is a 60-something married woman (part-time magistrate and co-owner of the family nursery business). Mac is surrounded by friends, family, and neighbors, and the town she describes is so real you can picture it in your mind. This book almost begs to be made into a movie.
It is February in middle Georgia, and the heavy rain never stops. A friend of Mac and her husband is found lying in the rain, hit by a car -- his own, as it turns out, but the car is found parked in a church some distance away, so this was no accident. How could someone else get behind the wheel of his car and run him down?
The incompetent police chief decides it must be a Mexican new to town, and Mac ends up trying to find out who killed her friend -- she's convinced it wasn't the chief suspect, but she fears it may be a family member or someone else close to the victim.
It is only fair to warn readers that Mac is a Christian and the book is sprinkled with her religious views -- not oppressively so, but somewhat surprisingly so, for a book that I would not classify as a "Christian mystery."
This was my first book by this author but I've already ordered another. She is a delightful find.
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C. Fox
5.0 out of 5 stars Funny and Intelligent: Great Cozy Mystery Series!
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2011
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I've read all the books in this mystery series set in Georgia and recently ordered most of the books in the series in large print for my older sister in Florida. The main character is intelligent and down-to-earth, thank goodness, and the humor is wonderful. my sister says she laughs out loud as she's reading these books, startling a little cat named Irene who recently adopted her family! I highly recommend this series. Note: I have purchased most of the books "used" from dealers on Amazon and the quality, speed in shipping, and packaging has been great.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable reading
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2015
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I like all of Patricia Sprinkle's Thoroughly Southern mysteries. They all seem to have a good storyline , interesting characters and the right amount of humor for this type of book. I would recommend reading this series in the order they were written, if possible, for a better understanding of the characters. I'm anxious to start the next one.
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Cindy
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this author
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2020
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Read this book years ago and I enjoyed it then and enjoyed it now.
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barbara d.
4.0 out of 5 stars Sprinkle is one of the best in the genre
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2016
Well written, well plotted, Sprinkle is one of the best in the genre.
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Jane L.
5.0 out of 5 stars YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK!!!
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2003
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Patricia Sprinkle has done it again. MacLaren Yarbrough is a fabulous character. I have read every book in the series and each time I feel as if I am visiting an old friend. In fact, I am! The town of Hopemore and the characters that live there remind me of a small town in Georgia where I lived for three years. I am waiting with breathless anticipation for the next installment in the Yarbrough's life in Hopemore, Ga. I hope I don't have to wait too long!
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5.0 out of 5 stars I love the Maclaren Yarborough series
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2016
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I love the Maclaren Yarborough series! They keep me interested to the last page! These are some of my favorite copies- I sure wish ALL of them were available on kindle!
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5.0 out of 5 stars love these stories by patricia sprinkle
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2015
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love these stories by patricia sprinkle, however she seems to have disppeared. have not been able to find of there have been further novels written, website is old. what ever happened to patricia sprinkle ?
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