Pleasant Day
About
A body found under a boxspring is no way to start the day......
Especially if the body is your best friend. In her despair, poor Pleasant, a flippant teenager, teams up with an older woman, Clarissa Blackwell, who claims to be a clairvoyant. and they set out to solve the crime. But the answers they find open up a whole other can of worms, and another murder emerges with ties to the present.
As the puzzle pieces begin to fit, Pleasant's identity comes into question, her mother's distance is understood, her father's infidelity is forgiven, and old bonds are reestablished in this humorous southern fiction murder mystery.
Praise for this book
5 stars Amazon
With a plain, simple and direct language, typical of the ages and circumstances of the characters, the plot develops naturally and with a very good rhythm. The characters are very well developed and their reactions feel very real at all times. The plot is full of twists and details through which the stories of several of the characters are interwoven in unexpected ways and make up a complex and carefully written universe.
I have enjoyed reading this flawless, well written, well reviewed and totally human story. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a realistic story, starring very well built characters.
Pleasant Day by author Vera Jane Cook is an intriguing southern women's fiction with a suspenseful murder mystery twist that will keep the reader sitting on the edge of their seats!
Set in the small southern town of Hollow Creek, South Carolina, this riveting story is told in the first person narrative by fifteen year old Pleasant Day, who wants to solve the mystery of who really killed her friend Millie Grady. Pleasant unexpectedly meets sixty year old Clarissa Blackwell, who has the gift of psychic ability. With a small town full of complex people, buried secrets, and two murders that were committed fifteen years apart, Pleasant and Clarissa are brought together by an old mystery and a dark past that comes to the surface and will forever change their worlds.
Pleasant Day is an intriguing tale that has enough drama, mystery, and suspense that easily drew me in and kept me turning the pages. Author Vera Jane Cook weaves a complex story told by a sassy southern teenage girl with a potty mouth, she's an old soul whose point of view was so unique that I found myself liking this straight talking and take no crap kind of teen, even though I wanted to wash her mouth out with soap!
There is a great mixture of humor and raw gritty drama within this multi-layered storyline, it has enough gripping twists and turns that keeps the reader guessing what will happen next. As a fan of southern fiction, the author does a great job of transporting the reader to the small town of Hollow Creek with a rich description of the setting, southern charm, and quirky memorable townspeople. From the complex relationships between the characters, the deeply buried town secrets, to the clever intertwining of the past and present murder mysteries that unexpectedly brings Pleasant and Clarissa together, Pleasant Day is a thoroughly riveting story that will keep you captivated until the surprising conclusion!