Ann B. Ross

Sharp-tongued Southern lady Miss Julia decides to help the handsome deputy sheriff Coleman Bates and lawyer Binkie Enloe tie the knot, rolling up her sleeves to assist with all the details, with hilarious results.

When Miss Julia is named executrix of Miss Mattie Freeman's estate, she finds the task complicated when a young man claiming to be Mattie's great-nephew arrives and demands to stay in her apartment.

Learning that Hazel Marie is pregnant with twins and that the father, private investigator J. D. Pickens, has left town, Miss Julia summons the wayward man to solve a local theft in the hopes of reuniting the couple.

When Hazel Marie's hotheaded private investigator husband, J.D., goes missing during a latest job, Miss Julia and Etta Mae struggle to free a man matching his description from a West Virginia jail, while Agnes Whitman returns to town with a following of misfits who might be members of a zealous cult.

Visiting the home of a snobby newcomer who criticizes her beloved hometown, Miss Julia decides to confront the lady, only to discover that she has been murdered and that Julia herself is the prime suspect.

Helping organize a beauty pageant to raise money for the sheriff's department, recently married Miss Julia instructs contestants in the ways of poise and etiquette while settling squabbles in her new home.

Miss Julia series, bk. 7.

"The delightful final installment of the beloved and New York Times bsetselling Miss Julia series. Wedding fever hits Abbotsville and several of Miss Julia's friends have plans to tie the knot. But, as usual, nothing is so simple. Christy Hargrove suddenly gives up a lifelong dream and drops out of medical school to marry, Helen Stroud and Thurlow Jones decide to change their commercial arrangement into a marital one, and, to Miss Julia's consternation,...

Miss Julia series, bk. 3.