Bid to save Vale land fires up – Southern Times Messenger
Meanwhile, the McLaren Vale Grape, Wine and Tourism Association, Southern Community Coalition, and Friends of Willunga Basin welcomed the protection of Bowering Hill. But the Grape, Wine and Tourism Association said the area’s protection zone should
Research and Markets: The 2006-2015 Outlook for the Industrial Wine Materials Market in Russia Study – PR Inside
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Sour Grapes: A Savannah Reid Mystery (Savannah Reid Mysteries)
Just when feisty, full-figured Savannah Reid’s life seems calm and peaceful, her spoiled, egocentric baby sister comes knocking. Atlanta is determined to become a star, and the Miss Gold Coast Beauty Pageant is her first step. Savannah’s alarmed at Atlanta’s growing obsession with her appearance. She blames it on the beauty pageant . . . where the competition has become so fierce that someone’s been driven to murder.
Customer Review: More sibling character development than most…
This time, Savannah Reid is in the middle of a beauty pageant in Sour Grapes. Savannah’s been asked by a friend to provide security for a teen beauty pageant at a posh winery. She takes the job, thinking this will be some of the easiest money she’s made in awhile. But one of her sisters shows up nearly unannounced to compete, and one of the contestants turns up missing (and is later found dead). Savannah now has to figure out if the death was a murder or a suicide, while trying to also keep her sister safe if there’s foul play going on…
Pretty good plot line with the usual number of twists and turns along the way. Of all the Savannah Reid novels I’ve read to date, this one probably has more character development of a sibling than any other. The story also touches on accepting oneself without trying to fit into society’s mold, when Savannah finds out her sister is taking laxatives to maintain a already low weight.
Still enjoying the series…
Customer Review: Plotting is better; jokes are repeated
Savannah Reid, the hyperphagic Georgian female PI is hired as a security guard for a beauty pageant staged at a California winery. Two of the contestants are murdered. Savannah’s empty-headed sister turns up with anorexia nervosa. As usual in this series the sub-plot is better than the main plot, although this one is better than her previous ones as a murder mystery. She moves the story along with clunky prose like “the plan she had crafted so carefully was beginning to unfold.” Some of the dialog is good but then you get stuff like
“‘Ah Savannah, me darlin’ he called out in his delightful Irish brogue ‘ tis a sight for there sore eyes ye are, love’”
By now some of the jokes are getting repetitious, such as Dirk’s stinginess and Dr Liu’s PMS chocolate craving, but I don’t suppose that matters if you are new to the series.
All is forgiven, however, for the sake of the fully drawn and well-characterized heroine with her cats, her siblings, her grandmother, her attitude problem, her ambivalence towards men, and above all, her food.
