Praise for The Cantaloupe Thief

Richardson-Moore is both mystery writer and street-smart pastor who doesn’t pretend to understand all the threads that make up her parishioners’ complicated tangle. Life on her pages is messy. For the reader, that’s a gift. Always darkening the faces of many of these complex characters is the capriciousness of mental illness and the hungering need for the next fix. Richardson-Moore makes the ever-present pangs and compulsions of addiction ring like Coltrane.– Matt Matthews, author of Mercy Creek

An interesting, surprising, and suspenseful tale of community, family, and the haunting and hurtful power addiction holds over its victims. Beautifully told and heartfully considered. This story is as real as can be imagined. I'll never look at a homeless person the same. Or, never not look. – Online reviewer

If you enjoy mysteries, set aside some time for this one. I had a hard time putting it down. – Amazon reviewer A.A. Murphy

As a mystery writer, her greatest technique is the one-sentence tease, which she does so incredibly well. But her greatest strength is in having the reader experience vicariously what she lives every day, the heart-breaking and long reaching effects of addiction. That she did so in the genre of a mystery is nothing less than amazing.– Amazon reviewer

Prepare to read Deb Richardson-Moore’s The Cantaloupe Thief like you’re getting ready for a Southern snowstorm. Run out and buy your bread and milk, stock the pantry to the brim, and cross everything off your calendar, because once reporter Branigan Powers draws you into her mystery, you’ll stick fast to the couch until you turn the last page. Bravo to Deb for creating a captivating novel so full of heart, humor, and suspense. I simply loved it. – Becky Ramsey, author of French by Heart and The Holy Eclair