{"id":6228,"date":"2025-02-15T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=6228"},"modified":"2025-02-15T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T16:35:08","slug":"danielle-arceneaux-glory-daze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/danielle-arceneaux-glory-daze\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Arceneaux: Glory Daze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glory Broussard #2<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This series, featuring an absolute genius creation of a main character is a delightful breath of fresh air. Glory Broussard, of LaFayette, Louisiana, is a divorcee of a certain age who suffers from arthritis, loves the Commodores (and really, who doesn\u2019t?), and works part time as a bookie in her favorite coffee shop on Sunday afternoons.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s shocked when her ex\u2019s new wife, Valerie, shows up at her \u201cplace of business\u201d on a Sunday and asks her to track down Sterling, her former husband.\u00a0 Even though she\u2019s had as little to do with her successor as possible, she finds herself agreeing.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, when she finds him, he\u2019s in the kitchen of a rented duplex with a knife through his heart. Naturally, there\u2019s lots of fallout.\u00a0 Glory and Sterling\u2019s heartbroken daughter, Delphine, rushes home for the funeral, and Valerie insists that since Glory\u2019s had such sleuthing success finding their missing man, she should discover who killed him as well.\u00a0 A reluctant heroine,\u00a0 part of Glory\u2019s charm is her terrible attitude \u2013 she\u2019s pretty rude to Valerie who seems to be a decent person, and she finds the fact that Valerie and Delphine get along well to be a major irritant. However, despite her qualms, she, Delphine and Valerie manage to form a team to uncover what happened.<\/p>\n

Their sleuthing eventually takes them to the stable and a casino where Sterling was working when he died.\u00a0 Lots of things seem off there and there\u2019s a fantastic moment where Glory dresses up to go \u201cundercover\u201d at the Casino (she\u2019s very good at Blackjack) to see what she can winkle out.\u00a0 Unfortunately, she gets drunk and makes a spectacle of herself at a Commodores concert.\u00a0 The whole scene is expertly written, funny, and sad at the same time.<\/p>\n

These books are essentially private eye novels, and despite the fact that Glory is an extremely unlikely one, she still gets results.\u00a0 Though unpaid, she does what every private eye in history has ever done: drive around and ask questions.\u00a0 Her car may be a Honda CRV and she may be a member of the Red Hat society, but she\u2019s still a private eye.<\/p>\n

Glory is also dealing with the fact that she\u2019s taken on the Red Hat Mardi Gras celebration and is woefully behind in the prep, to the point where she\u2019s missed ordering the crucial king cake.\u00a0 Luckily, another nemesis, Constance, steps in to help and between the two of them manage to make it work.<\/p>\n

Adding some extra oomph to the plot is Delphine\u2019s chef girlfriend, Justice, who arrives from New York to offer condolences and steps in when a king cake is needed. Glory, along with solving the crime, mends some bridges along the way and maybe even learns not to hold on to some resentments so tightly.\u00a0 However, you have to hope she doesn\u2019t completely mellow out, because it\u2019s those thorny warring instincts that make her character absolute reading gold.<\/p>\n

The author does not condescend to this character, and obviously loves her,\u00a0 her faults and foibles making her a compelling, if not always completely loveable human. An utterly classic character, Glory feels so real that if she were to walk into your coffee shop or church you\u2019d recognize her immediately.\u00a0 Arceneaux is also a great storyteller, so these books are a win in every way for the lucky reader. —\u00a0Robin Agnew<\/em><\/p>\n

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