Miss Julia Takes the Wheel

February 25, 2019
Bestseller Ross’s winning 21st mystery set in Abbotsville, N.C. (after 2018’s Miss Julia Raises the Roof), finds Miss Julia beside herself with what-ifs after her personal physician, Bob Hargrove, tells her that he’s going on a months-long vacation. Bob has hired a fill-in doctor, Don Crawford, but Miss Julia won’t be satisfied till she vets the new man herself, so she hosts a small dinner party whose guests include Don and his wife, Lauren, and two couples she and her husband, Sam, are close to. Reviews afterward are mixed, but Don seems generally okay, while everyone feels Lauren is in dire need of socialization. Meanwhile, 15-year-old Lloyd Pickens’s dad, PI J.D. Pickens, plans to buy him a car, another source of worry for Miss Julia, and Lloyd is also dealing with the horrors of a Sadie Hawkins Day dance. Soon enough, there are signs of nefarious activity involving Don, and the end results are very bad indeed. Miss Julia is not as savvy this time as she usually is, but she’s still a true delight. Agent: Deborah Schneider, Gelfman Schneider Literary.

March 15, 2019
In the latest installment in Ross' popular, long-running cozy series about well-meaning meddler Miss Julia, the heroine becomes concerned when her regular doctor goes on an extended vacation, and she senses that his replacement may not be what he seems. Dr. Crawford and his painfully shy wife, Lauren, do not fit into the close-knit community, and Julia is determined to root out why. Meanwhile, she's also busy keeping up with the lives of her friends and family. There's Lloyd, who's learning how to drive and how to navigate teenage-girl drama; LuAnne, who has taken a job at the funeral home, where she must tone herself down; and neighbor Mildred, whose husband had a heart attack "in bed." Plus, Julia has decided to try her hand at flipping a ramshackle house. With Miss Julia novels now numbering 20, her faithful readers will relish the latest tale about Ross' characters navigating in quirky, complicated, and ultimately affirming situations.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)

November 15, 2018

Southern heroine Miss Julia is back, but her regular doctor is out of town on vacation, so she decides to invite his replacement to dinner. She immediately notes that Dr. Don Crawford's wife is unusually shy, but it's friends Hazel Marie and Binkie who point out that there's something a little off about the doctor himself. Meanwhile, LuAnne has just gotten a job at a funeral home and could use Miss Julia's help in rebooting her wardrobe. Next in the long-standing New York Times best-selling series.

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