After a less than stellar seventh
outing with Miss Julia Strikes Back, Ann B. Ross continues the tales of the
tales of Mrs. Julia Springer, known around Abbottsville simply as Miss Julia,
with Miss Julia Strikes Back. This southern magnolia is anything but quiet and
demur; she quite feisty for a woman “of a certain age.”
Almost all of Miss Julia’s family
has gone out of town. Her new husband Sam is a long-planned trip to Russia. Hazel
Marie is vacationing in Mexico. Little Lloyd and Lillian are there to keep her
company as well as keep an eye on her. That’s not enough to keep Miss Julia
occupied. So she decides to throw a party. She invites her closest
friends. As always, the food and house
are impeccable. Upon her guests’ departure, Miss Julia discovers that her
wedding rings are missing. She turns the
house upside down and inside out in an effort to find them. Without any luck.
Even Hazel Marie’s jewelry is missing. What the heck is going on?
Soon she learns that other women in
Abbottsville are also missing their jewels. She needs Mr. Pikens more than
ever, and while he’s also “out-of-town,” everyone knows he’s in Mexico with
Hazel Marie. That leave Sergeant Coleman Bates to learn what happened. Fat
chance of anything happening with him in charge.
Coleman moves much too slow for Miss
Julia. Her investigation uncovers that a professional jewelry ring has been
operating all over the county. Soon, she and Little Lloyd have tailed the
thieves to Palm Beach and head down there to get her rings back. And hopefully
some of others’ missing jewelry.
Ross scores again with Miss Julia Strikes
Back. While not as funny and a tad over the top as the first six books in the
series, I’m glad to see her back in all her feistiness. Miss Julia Strikes Back gets 4 out of 5
stars in Julie’s world.
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