cover image The King Is Dead: The King Is Dead

The King Is Dead: The King Is Dead

Sarah Shankman. Pocket Books, $5.99 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-671-73460-2

Her disappointing fifth outing finds amateur sleuth and writer Samantha Adams at a Barbecue Cookoff in Tupelo, Miss., where death assails the eccentrics gathered there. (Sept.)