“ Gloriously steeped in the milieu of southern Gothic and crime. The details, references, and language are so specific and evocative that you can just smell the Spanish moss (not that I would know what it smells like). McBurnette-Andronicos has created an incredible character in Violet, someone so off-kilter yet charming you could easily follow her down any dark path. The language of the dialogue is beautiful and rhythmic, some of the soliloquies read like prose poems. More great lines than I can mention, but here’s a favorite: “A civilization’s only as fast as its slowest mailman.” Marvelous! ”