Since You're Leaving Anyway, Take Out the Trash FROM THE PUBLISHER
All Debbie Sue Overstreet got out of her marriage to the sheriff of Salt Lick, Texas, was a gas station that didn't pump! So she turned the property into the Styling Station, the best beauty parlor in town — and if she didn't get rich, at least she learned all the local gossip.
But she wasn't prepared for the news that the nastiest woman in town had been bumped off! Suddenly, everyone's a suspect and Debbie Sue decides to go after the reward ... even if it means she's got to get close to Buddy, that lousy, good-looking ex-husband of hers.
Debbie Sue's investigation sends her on a wild ride. Who is the man named Eugene ... and what's with his alter-ego Janine? Where is the mysterious red-haired woman? Why is Buddy trying to get her back? And, scariest of all, when did she begin to think he could be right?
About the Author:
"Dixie Cash" is Pamela Cumbie and her sister, Jeffery McClanahan. They grew up in West Texas during the great oil boom of the fifties and sixties, an era filled with real-life fictional characters who cry to be written about. Pam has always had a zany sense of humor and Jeffery has always had a dry wit. Surrounded by cowboys and steeped in country-western music, when they can stop laughing long enough they work together creating hilarity on paper. Both live in Texas — Pam with her two beloved dogs in the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex, and Jeffery with her husband in a small town near Fort Worth.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
Authentic dialogue and a strong Texas flavor nicely complement the slapstick tone of Cash's rollicking debut romance featuring Debbie Sue Overstreet. Debbie Sue owns the most unusual hair saloon in Salt Lick, Tex., the Styling Station, which she converted from the old filling station her ex-husband left her in her divorce settlement. Pert and sassy Debbie Sue has no desire to make a permanent career out of giving permanents, however; she still hankers for her old life as a rodeo rider even though her obsession with the lifestyle led to the end of her marriage with Buddy Overstreet. When Pearl Ann Carruthers, the nastiest-and wealthiest-woman in town turns up dead, Debbie Sue sees the $50,000 reward for tracking down her murderer as her ticket back to life in the saddle. There's only one slight problem: Buddy is the town sheriff, and he wants her to keep her nose out of police business. To complicate matters, rich and handsome Quint Matthews, an old fling from her rodeo days, appears on the scene and offers Debbie Sue money beyond her wildest dreams to tour the rodeo circuit with him. It just might be the answer to her prayers, but she can't get Pearl Ann's murder out of her mind or Buddy out her heart. Debbie Sue and her posse are sure to keep readers laughing all the way to the last page. Agent, Meg Ruley. (Sept.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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