Product Description

Beautician-turned-country singer Maggie Reid is getting too famous for her own good. Since her endearing if good-for-nothing former husband. "Satellite Dish and Mobile Home King" Vernell Spivey, vanished along with millions, everybodyseems to be interested in the ex-wife he left in the lurch...including some very bad people called "The Redneck Mafia." Drop-dead gorgeous Detective Marshall Weathers and his police cronies want to know what Maggie knows as well, since they have a murder on their hands that has Vernell's name all over it.

Maggie knows this much: there are many negative appellations you could pin on old liquor-loving, skirt-chasing Vernell, but "killer" isn't one of them.

And though it means courting a mob hit and the extreme attentions of a sturdy bike p.i., the determined d-i-v-o-r-c-e-e is going to find her missing ex and prove him innocent...or die trying!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #898707 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-01
• Released on: 2001-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
"Bartholomew Has A Special Gift." -- -- Tulsa World

About the Author
Nancy Bartholomew lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with her husband and two children. She is currently a psychotherapist in private practice. She enjoys spending time with her children, gourmet cooking, and reading. In a former life, she was an aspiring country-western music star.

Customer Reviews

Creative plot and storyline
He cheated on her, lied to her, and destroyed her trust. Still even a divorce cannot fully sever the ties that bind country singer Maggie Reid with to her scoundrel of an ex-husband. When he is reported missing, Maggie swallows her pride and askks police detective Marshall J. Weathers, a man who once promised to call her but never did, for help. While there a perky rookie makes it clear she and Marshall are dating.

Feeling like leftover hash, Maggie goes to Vernell's home where she encounters a stranger carrying a gun. He wants her ex-husband too and threatens her before kissing and leaving her. Maggie's life plunges even lower when Vernell's car is found with a body inside. The victim is a moneyman for the Redneck Mafia and the millions he carried is gone with Vernell rumored to be the last person to see him alive. Maggie knows that Vernell is a rat but not a killer so she begins making her own inquiries without understanding the danger she is now in from unsavory characters.

STAND BY YOUR MAN stars a protagonist who refuses to be anyone's doormat. Her romantic life, which is at ground zero by choice, should prove interesting as three hunks are dying (pun intended) to go out with her. The murderer is hidden in plain sight so that readers never guess the perpetrator's identity. This down home regional mystery really rocks (to a country tune that is).

Harriet Klausner

Fun, fun, fun!
Nancy Bartholomew has created a wonderful character in Maggie Reid. I loved Your Cheating Heart and was thrilled to find Stand by Your Man. The characters are realistic and the situations Maggie reid finds herself in are enjoyable and funny. The only people I can imagine not liking these books are people who don't like to have a good time.

Four Stars
STAND BY YOUR MAN is the second book in the Maggie Reid series. Maggie, a country singer, who attracts violent crime, murders and men like spilt Kool-Aid attracts ants. This book had me smiling from beginning to end. Although, at the end of the book I found myself HAVING to know if Maggie went with Marshall, the coffee-regular detective or Tony, the latte with the works private investigator...but I'll have to wait for the next book. I am sure it will be good, too.