In the two weeks CIA assassin Fortune Redding has been hiding in Sinful, Louisiana, she’s been harassed, poisoned, and shot at…and that was the easy part. But now she’s about to face her biggest challenge since setting foot in the tiny bayou town. 
When mayoral candidate Ted Williams is murdered, everyone is surprised. Ted was a blowhole and a Yankee, but those usually weren’t good reasons to kill someone. When Sinful Ladies Society leader Ida Belle becomes the lead suspect in the crime, Fortune knows she’s got to solve a murder and save one of the only friends she’s ever had. But as the investigation begins, more and more secrets surface, and Fortune realizes that sometimes nothing is as it seems.

‘Swamp Sniper’ was my third visit with Fortune Redding in the (very) small town of Sinful Louisana. Sadly, it was disappointing. I hadn’t expected the series to start to feel tired by the third book. I almost set this aside because the first third of the book was all slapstick, pratfalls, sinking boats, will-she-won’t-she with Carter and not much else. I felt like I’d read most of this book before. Yet again I had a murder of a not very nice person with one of Fortune’s friends as the chief suspect. Yet again, Carter had to be kept out of the loop. Yet again, a lot of the humour came from Gertie bumping into things or crashing boats because she refused to wear her glasses. I was reminded of how bored I got with Stephanie Plum blowing up a car in every book.

A plot did finally surface just before the halfway point. If the book had started there, I wouldn’t have felt that I’d missed much. I liked the plot, just not the pace it was revealed at. The scene with the gaseous open-coffined corpse made me laugh and the final action scenes were vivid and tense.

Overall, this book just about scraped three stars. I have the next book, ‘Swamp Team 3′ in my TBR but I’m not in a hurry to read it. I think I need a break from the women of Sinful so that the next Miss Fortune book I read won’t feel so tired.