Full-Figured Sleuths
These women have it all....majestic full-figured bodies and intelligent brains, both of which they are not afraid to use. They are the queen-size detective brigade, not afraid of the hard work and danger it takes to solve a mystery.
These professional and amateur sleuths can be broken into two groups--those that want to lose weight and those that don't.
First, we have the women who are large in body and in spirit. They are content with themselves and have no intentions of changing one ounce of their body.
Josephine Fuller admits that she has never weighed less than 200 pounds in her entire adult life. Jo is intelligent, arrogant, and blunt--a woman of substance. She is not afraid to tackle anything. In Larger Than Death, the first book in the series by Lynne Murray, Jo finds her friend and one-time mentor, Nina, dead from a slashed throat and untangles a knot of clues that point to several suspects at the same time: a sleazy diet and exercise spa owner, a New Age guru, and the mysterious lover of the deceased. In her second book, Large Target, as part of her job as an investigator for philanthropist Alicia Madrone, Jo looks into a young lady's involvement with a mysterious band of do-gooders. Her assignment spirals into a murder investigation. The third book, At Large, was just released in July. While looking into a women's job skill center outside of Seattle, Jo encounters the death of her ex-husband's girlfriend, a woman Jo herself wouldn't have minded seeing vanish. While trying to solve the mystery behind this death Jo has to deal with a haunted apartment, a love denied, and suspicious doings among mountain climbers, social climbers, and horror film buffs.
Savannah Reid is an ex-cop, dropped from the police department for being overweight. This Georgia peach retaliates by setting up her own detective agency, aptly named the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency. She is voluptuous and sensuous, not afraid to enjoy the pleasures in life. She also has a black belt in karate. The series, written by G. A. McKevett, begins with Just Desserts, in which the newly-formed agency takes up a case involving adultery and dirty politics. Savannah locates the long-lost sister of a client in the next book, Bitter Sweets. She has second thoughts about the assignment which she finds are justified when she stumbles across a murder soon after. In Killer Calories, Savannah checks in a health spa to investigate the death of a disco queen. She hired to find a serial rapist who dresses as Santa and grabs women from the local mall parking lot in Cooked Goose. Dirk, her former cop partner and buddy, needs Savannah's help when his ex-wife is found in his trailer, shot with his gun in Sugar and Spite. The latest release in the series is Sour Grapes, in which Savannah is hired to provide security at a beauty pageant. To complicate matters, her kid sister, Atlanta, appears to be a participant in the pageant, having lost a great deal of weight--too much in Savannah's opinion.
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