I Can't Make You Love Me, But I Can Make You Leave
A Novel
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · April 5, 2011
“Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed, ‘cuz Dixie Cash is the best good-night reading around!” —Nancy Martin, author of the Blackbird Sisters series The Domestic Equalizers are back!
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- Who it’s for
- A wacky, heartfelt mystery pairs small-town Texas hairdressers with a country-music murder case.
- Themes
- Amateur sleuthing, Country music rivalry, Murder investigation
- Genres
- Cozy Mysteries, Women Detectives, Amateur Sleuths
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“Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed, ‘cuz Dixie Cash is the best good-night reading around!” —Nancy Martin, author of the Blackbird Sisters series The Domestic Equalizers are back! Author Dixie Cash’s delightful small town Texas hairdressers-turned-sleuths take on a new case in I Can’t Make You Love Me, But I Can Make You Leave.
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A former Queen of Country Music, a long way from Nashville, faces a murder rap when her back-up singer and hated rival is found dead in the fading star’s dressing room—and the Equalizers (“Don’t get mad, get evidence”) must prove her innocence. At once wacky and heartfelt, Cash’s latest is a country hoot! (Publishers Weekly calls it, “one of her most entertaining cases yet.”) Fans of Mary Kay Andrews and Karin Gillespie who have yet to experience the zany delights of Dixie Cash should definitely start now!
Country Casework
A wacky, heartfelt mystery pairs small-town Texas hairdressers with a country-music murder case.
Come here for
- Small-town Texas hairdressers who sleuth by the rule: “Don’t get mad, get evidence.”
Expect
- A former country star under suspicion after her rival is found dead.
Where it sits
| Cozy Mysteries | 74% |
|---|---|
| Women Detectives | 44% |
| Amateur Sleuths | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Funny Fiction
- Cozy Mysteries
- Contemporary Romance
- Romantic Suspense
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- Suspense
- Crime Fiction
- Women's Fiction
- Authors
- Dixie Cash
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 5, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Amateur sleuthing · Country music rivalry · Murder investigation
- Reading lane
- Funny Fiction