Miss Julia Rocks the Cradle

Shirley J.                       Adult Fiction                                         Southern Folks, Southern Ways, Twins

Miss Julia Rocks the Cradle (#12 in the Miss Julia series) by Ann B. Ross    320 pages

When the Lloyd's schoolteacher, Miss Petty, is pulled out of class by two police officers, the town is aghast with gossip!  Neighbors are calling back and forth all over town, turns out a dead body was discovered in Miss Petty's tool shed!   And when Lillian goes to the grocery store the manager is real snippy and snidely tells her to have Miss Julia come down and settle up her bounced check!  Bounced check?   When Lillian tells Miss Julia what he said, Miss Julia is fit to be tied.  She has never bounced a check in her life!   She meticulously goes over her bank statements every month and reconciles her check book.   Come to find out she had forgotten to pick her check book off the car seat when she was going through her pursed looking for something one day.   Why, her checkbook was left in the car at least 3 days and someone had gone in and stolen several checks from the MIDDLE of her checkbook so she wouldn't have noticed right away!   All this is going on while Hazel Marie is about to deliver twins!   Who can think straight with so much going on?   And the folks at the bank are starting to treat her like she is senile!   Sam tries to straighten the confusion out and learns more than he bargained for!  A great book.  I love the Miss Julia series like I love the Hap and Leonard one.    I recommend this one to middle schoolers on up.  It is such a funny story, but, maybe being it is about older people, it might be geared to older folks, but, anyone reading it will like it, she is so funny, and oh so southern belle!