Michael Lee West, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (527p) ISBN 978-0-06-018406-3
With young Bitsy Wentworth's nose-shattering blow to her philandering husband Claude's handsome face (motive: self-defense; weapon: frozen rack of baby back ribs), West launches this warm but overloaded chronicle of three generations of...
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Michael Lee West, Author . Harper $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-060-18405-6
Ripe with Southern charm and sultry atmosphere, West's diverting and funny latest unravels the tangled gossamer web of an eccentric extended Southern family. At the heart of the novel is Renata DeChavannes, who has a pretty full plate: a...
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Michael Lee West, Author Longstreet Press $18.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-929264-38-7
The characters in West's promising first novel are richly eccentric and they exist in a colorfully evoked setting. However, there's little tension in this saga of a family in small-town Crystal Falls, Tenn. Though the story begins with the shock of...
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Michael Lee West, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (390p) ISBN 978-0-06-018348-6
When 16-year-old Olive Nepper eschews Jesus and drinks a Nehi laced with rose poison, it is with good reason: she is carrying the child of Baptist minister T. C. Kirby, a man of stolen identity who once didn't know ``Jesus from a Junebug.'' As Olive
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Michael Lee West, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-018357-8
Freddie, Eleanor and Jo-Nell McBroom may be the most satisfyingly trio of off-center Southern sisters since Crimes of the Heart, and West (Crazy Ladies) delivers a bawdy and poignant novel to match. When marine biologist Freddie McBroom fled...
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Michael Lee West, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (262p) ISBN 978-0-06-018371-4
Beginning with a childhood during which she ate dirt (not out of poverty, but because she felt compelled to taste the mud pies she had produced), West draws a loving and beguiling portrait of her Southern relatives and their obsession with food....
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Michael Lee West, Minotaur, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-57122-1
West's diverting debut plays nice variations on several mystery subgenres—Southern, romantic, screwball, culinary. Teeny Templeton, aspiring Charleston, S.C., pastry chef, is looking forward to her marriage to Bing Jackson, until she catches him...
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Michael Lee West. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-57123-8
In West’s madcap second novel featuring Charleston, S.C., baker Teeny Templeton (after 2011’s Gone with a Handsomer Man), Teeny is certain—well, almost certain—she witnessed the murder of Barb Philpot, an old high school frenemy. Barb’s body...
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