Real Murders (Aurora Teagarden Book 1) - Charlaine Harris

mainly because the Texan small town life being described is so far from my experience. Harris' writing is smooth and efficient and her character is likeable if a little relentlessly, self-deprecatingly ordinary.

 

I think I must have imagined the subversive part. There's no sign of it anymore. We're playing pin the blame on the suspect in the traditional way.