{"id":16496,"date":"2014-02-28T21:20:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T02:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=16496"},"modified":"2014-02-28T21:20:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T02:20:40","slug":"down-and-dead-in-dixie-by-vicki-hinze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=16496","title":{"rendered":"Down and Dead in Dixie by Vicki Hinze"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>MY REVIEW:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After witnessing a mob hit, Daisy Grant finds herself on a race for her life. She quickly determines that the police are not able to protect her, so with both sides of a Mafia rivalry after her, Daisy knows she is on her own. With advice from a friend, Daisy attempts to evade her pursuers by faking her own death and ignoring her friend&#8217;s instructions makes her way to New Orleans where she encounters more bad luck. Surely the new job and immediate connection she feels with handsome Mark Jensen is a sign that her luck is beginning to change&#8230;or is it?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Down and Dead in Dixie&#8221; is a story that hits the ground running and doesn&#8217;t stop for more than a quick breath or two until the very end. Filled with action, danger, suspense, and romance, a huge dose of humor adds a welcome sense of relief at frequent intervals. I loved Daisy and Mark as well as their sometimes quirky cast of supporting characters. Although the story is likely improbably, it had me hooked for its entire length and rooting for Daisy and Mark&#8217;s successful &#8220;deaths&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Down and Dead in Dixie&#8221; is highly entertaining and I look forward to reading its sequels. Hope I can manage the wait!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/divider2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10857\" title=\"divider2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/divider2.png\" width=\"317\" height=\"61\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/divider2.png 317w, https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/divider2-150x28.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>I received this book from bookfun.org in return for my honest opinion.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE BOOK:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-size-5\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16497\" alt=\"Down And Dead In Dixie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DownAndDeadInDixie.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DownAndDeadInDixie.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DownAndDeadInDixie-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DownAndDeadInDixie-150x225.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>To live, sometimes ya gotta die! Daisy Grant<\/b>\u00a0is in a heap of trouble. She stumbles into\u00a0a mob turf war and now somebody wants her dead. Daisy may be small-town to the bone,\u00a0not at all the kind of\u00a0woman to deal with the Southern Mafia, but\u00a0she knows how to get creative fast!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-size-5\">Enters the way-too-attractive Mark Jensen\u2026 \u00a0He didn\u2019t mean to rescue anybody, and he certainly didn\u2019t mean to go on the run because of a stubborn, sassy woman.\u00a0 Soon they are up to their ears in so many wacky characters they don\u2019t know who\u2019s on their side. Daisy and Mark decide that to live, sometimes ya gotta die.\u00a0 And sometimes to die right takes . . . practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-size-5\"><b>Clean Read.<\/b>\u00a0 This book is suitable for most readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Over 1.5 Million Books In Print<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4560\" alt=\"Vicki Hinze\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/VickiHinze.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/VickiHinze.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/VickiHinze-150x130.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-size-5\">Vicki\u2019s first published novel, a romantic suspense, was a bestseller that sold in nearly a dozen foreign countries. Since then, she\u2019s shifted writing focus several times. After co-creating the first single-title open-ended continuity series, she turned to military life and has been credited with a Career Achievement Award for being one of the first to write military romantic suspense, military romantic intrigue, and military romantic thrillers. Recently, she has shifted focus to Christian fiction. Her willingness to take risks and blaze trails has won her many prestigious nominations and awards<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MY REVIEW: After witnessing a mob hit, Daisy Grant finds herself on a race for her life. She quickly determines that the police are not able to protect her, so with both sides of a Mafia rivalry after her, Daisy knows she is on her own. With advice from a friend, Daisy attempts to evade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,60,41,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-contemporary-fiction","category-romance","category-suspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16496"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16503,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496\/revisions\/16503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}