Charlaine Harris is the author of the Sookie Stackhouse (vampire) series, as well as several others--not all of which include supernatural beings (e.g., Shakespeare series, Teagarden series). In this novel, fashion model Nickie has just been told by her agent that she is past her prime at the tender age of 27. She decides to accept the invitation of BFF, Mimi, to move home and share a big rambling house left by Mimi's grandmother. Knolls, TN has a small college and Nickie is going to finish her bachelor's degree and get her novels published. A series of rapes, which include Nickie's, quickly dispel the sense of homecoming and safety. When the rapes escalate to murder, no woman in town feels safe. Nickie and one of the other rape victims, a professor at the university decide to solve this mystery on their own and have narrowed the list down to just a handful of names--none of whom seem to be the kind of person who could commit such heinous crimes. Nickie's long-standing and unrequited crush on Mimi's older brother is realized and, of course, the women triumph in the end. Good characters, well-developed southern setting (a specialty of Harris'), and fast-moving and tension filled plot all make this a very readable book.
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