Jennifer L. Hart

This one has it all: broke semiskilled single mom with a mother a lot like Cruella deVille, hot cop, ex boyfriend, mentoring uncle (even though he's dead), several murders. Sure, there are a few inconsistencies and a wishful thinking, but IT'S FICTION.
Nice plot management and twists, a real snarkfest, and classic redheaded behavior (cut the growling, I was born a redhead and have the freckles to prove it!).
Nice touch of having supposed pearls of wisdom from Uncle Al's book on sleuthing for show more a living at the beginning of each chapter. Certainly leaves this reader panting for the next in series.
Oh, and no erotica (for those who care). show less

I quickly learned that each time i picked up FINAL NOTICE I should drink nothing. I sopped up iced tea, water, and coffee before the light dawned that perhaps i'd be laughing too much .....safer to eat licorice or something instead...There are truly pages in the book that are now rippled from liquid spillage/spurts!

Damaged Good is a fledgling company run by two brothers Logan and Luke. Handsome hunky heroes with hearts of gold...yet quite different in personality. The woman in the center is show more the wife of one and the ex-lover of the other- Jackie. After losing her job she becomes part of the property management team! Let the mystery, let the hysteria being!
You'll get to the point where you pre-cringe, knowing what has to be coming before Jackie does. She's spit on, hit on, and oh good lord she not only steps in poop but goes sliding in it.
I haven't done this book justice if i've made it sound totally goofy. It's funny yes but the jist of it is a mystery that when solved will have your eyebrows raised.
THANK YOU JENNIFER HART. show less

We've all had the experience of making a major mistake and heading home to lick our wounds, well that's exactly what Andy Buckland does when on the debut of her cooking show, the live audience gets food poisoning. But when she goes home things just seem to get worse.

She rear ends an SUV driven by a gorgeous guy while she looks like s***, she's hired to cater a party by her worst enemy from High School and it turns out to be the engagement party of that same enemy and her ex-boyfriend, and show more last, the family business is near bankruptcy and they want her to save it.

How can she do that when she is a suspect in the murder of the pastry chef who witnessed her TV downfall?

The characters were fun but the mystery was a little on the light side. show less

Quite amusing, and I loved the narrative voice. Maggie is a real kick. I really like sassy narrators with snappy style. She kept me absorbed and turning pages eagerly! If I were page-counting, I might have said the plot was a little slow to develop, but the introductory and background info that leads us to the first murder was fun on its own. (I won't rehash the plot here, there are a zillion other reviews, and people can read the blurb.)

On the down-side: The book has one persistent show more punctuation problem throughout which kind of drove me nuts whenever I forgot to breathe calmly and remind myself that it's only an indie novel. (For the curious, it has incorrect construction of the plural possessive everywhere; but it was otherwise well edited, with only one typo that I could find.) I obtained this on a free day, but at some point I may buy and read others in the series. show less