Indomitable Southern heroine Miss Julia has promised her husband, Sam, to mind her own business. She doesn't have to spring into action after a dead body is found in a toolshed near her house. Instead, she can concentrate on figuring out who's been passing bad checks in her name and, most important, preparing for Hazel Marie's impending due date.
Pardon our French, but in Miss Julia's newest nonstop adventure, steel magnolias kick butt (Kirkus Reviews). Don't miss the newest, Miss Julia Raises the Roof, coming April 2018 from Viking.

Miss Julia has promised her adoring husband, Sam, to mind her own business. What a relief! Instead of trying to figure out why that dead body was found in Miss Petty's toolshed, Miss Julia can concentrate on taking care of just-in-time newlywed Hazel Marie as she prepares for her impending due date. But then Miss Julia-who has always balanced her checkbook down to the penny-suddenly finds her checks bouncing all over town. Just this once (as she tells herself), Miss Julia starts investigating and so begin the antics that have made her one of the most beloved and irrepressible ladies-of-a-certain-age in today's fiction.