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    Done Gone Wrong

    By Cathy Pickens

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    A chance to be a part of a headline-grabbing case against a drug company has lured attorney Avery Andrews back to Charleston, South Carolina. She agrees to meet with Mark Tilman, a young doctor from her hometown who seems to have something on his mind. When he doesn't show, she figures he stood her up and takes comfort in the stilt restaurant's she-crab soup. But it turns out he had a fatal car accident. Something about the crash isn't right, and Mark's father asks Avery to look into his death. Between that and digging up dirt on the wonder drug Uplift, Avery is coming up with more questions than answers.

    Of course, Avery isn't the only one making headlines. Back in Dacus, her mom is on live television confronting a teenager's dynamite-toting paramour in a hostage crisis at the Burger Hut, Great-Aunt Aletha is mixing it up with the now-toupeeless postman, and the son of a ghost wants vengeance. In short, it's life as usual back in Dacus, while in Charleston, Avery is forced to face demons from her past.

    Cathy Pickens's first mystery novel established her as a distinctive voice in the cozy tradition. In this second, readers can expect more Southern wit and charm, more courtroom drama, and even crazier antics from the folks back home, all the while falling more and more in love with this endearing heroine.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateAug 29, 2006
    ISBN9781429907866
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    Cathy Pickens

    Cathy Pickens, a lawyer and college professor, is a crime fiction writer and true crime columnist for Mystery Readers Journal. She taught law in the McColl School of Business and served as provost at Queens and as national president of Sisters in Crime and on the boards of Mystery Writers of America and the Mecklenburg Forensic Medicine Program (an evidence collection/preservation training collaborative). Her other books from The History Press include Charlotte True Crime Stories, True Crime Stories of Eastern North Carolina and Charleston Mysteries.

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    • 3/5
      This is the second Avery Andrews mystery. Good, fast, entertaining read. I think she's trying to put too much into the book, though. I girued out the bad guy early on.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this installment, but not as much as the previous books. I think because it wasn't set in Dacus but instead in Charleston.That and the fact that the mystery involved mental health drugs and drug trials and since I work in the mental health industry, it wasn't exactly interesting to new to me.I much prefer the smaller, more intimate stories that she set in Dacus.The characters were as well written and I wouldn't mind meeting Det. Casper Kirland again but I am glad that I know she moves the stories back to Dacus and its locals. If I had thought she was going to continue in this vein I might have walked away from the series, for me it made that much of a difference.
    • 4/5
      Attorney Avery Andrews is back for her second mystery. In the first book, Southern Fried, Avery had returned to her hometown, Dacus SC, to lick her wounds after her legal career -- defending clients sued in civil court -- crashed and burned. I thought its location in the small town of Dacus, with its eccentric characters, was what made Southern Fried so interesting and readable. In Done Gone Wrong, Avery is lured to Charleston SC to help a plaintiff’s attorney get a hefty settlement for his clients. They’re suing Perforce Pharmaceuticals, maker of Uplift, a psychiatric drug. A forklift operator taking the drug shot up his workplace, killing several people and wounding more, then killed himself. Avery is hired by Jake Baker to dig up whatever she can that will help his case. What she doesn’t know until it’s too late to back out is that one of the witnesses in the case is the medical doctor who was at the center of Avery’s earlier career meltdown. As Avery investigates, readers are given a bird’s-eye view of the complex process by which drugs get to the market – including human clinical trials. While she’s in Charleston, Avery also becomes embroiled in a police case involving the death of an old friend’s brother, Mark Tilman, and it seems there may be some link between Dr. Tilman and Jake’s case. I thought Done Gone Wrong was different from Ms. Pickens’ earlier book. Southern Fried was cozy, Done Gone Wrong more hard-edged. Both had good story lines, but I thought the writing inDone Gone Wrong needed a bit of editing – and the characters weren’t nearly as interesting. I also thought the resolution a tad improbable. By Diana. First Published in Mystery News, December 2005-January 2006Review based on publisher- or author-provided review copy.