Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes

Denise Grover Swank

2011 • 290 pages

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Average rating3.2

When Rose reports for Fenton County jury duty she figures she's lucky to get out of a morning working at the DMV. Instead, despite a disastrous encounter with the new assistant district attorney, Mason Deveraux, she's picked as a juror on a murder case. As the trial progresses, she realizes an ominous vision she had in the men's restroom proves the defendant is innocent. And there's not a cotton picking thing she can do about it. Or is there? As if things weren't bad enough, Rose's older sister Violet is going through a mid-life crisis. Violet insists that Rose stop seeing her sexy new boyfriend, Arkansas state detective Joe Simmons, and date other men. Rose is done letting people boss her around, but she can't commit to Joe either. Still, Rose isn't about to let the best thing in her life slip away.

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9 primary books13 released books

Rose Gardner Mystery

Rose Gardner Mystery is a 13-book series with 9 primary works first released in 2011 with contributions by Denise Grover Swank.

Twenty-Nine and a Half Reasons

Falling to Pieces

Thirty-One and a Half Regrets

Thirty-Two and a Half Complications

Picking Up the Pieces

Thirty-Three and a Half Shenanigans

Ripple of Secrets

Thirty-Five and a Half Conspiracies

Thirty-Six and a Half Motives

Sins of the Father

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Cassandra

This is one of my favorite cozy mystery series. The MC is in her early twenties and has spent her entire life smothered and abused by her mom in a small rural Arkansas town. As the series begins, she has no friends and only her sister and her family as support. The fact that she has premonitions and blurts them out randomly doesn't help her situation either. She decides to change her life and start doing things she has never done before, like get a cell phone, kiss a guy, get a dog, etc... 28 new things. It's delightful, funny, and sad in some places, but it's a quick read. Not everyone will like this book or the series, but those who do really seem to enjoy it as much as I do. Of the reviews I've read, the ones who don't tend to like it are put off by Rose's supernatural ability (it is not realistic on purpose), her naivete, and the Southern lifestyle in a rural town, but those are some of my favorite things about it! Rose changes and comes into herself as these books go on and by the end of the series she's like a town heroine and has forged new relationships, gaining some true blue friends and allies, as well as, a lot of enemies of the dangerous variety.

I've read this series so many times, and I just wanted to say it's not for everyone, but I love the whole series so much that nothing thrills me more than finding others who also come to live it, too.

January 20, 2020