Rating: 
Summary: Good book - witty writing - kind of loses focus
Review: When I found out that the guy who wrote "Escape (The Pina Colada Song) wrote a mystery novel - how could I not buy it? I really enjoyed the main character's (K. O'Connor) internal dialogue and her self-deprecating humor...and Holmes's writing style is very clean. The story just kind of cooks along, though Holmes's hiding of several facts is rather irritating (K says things to herself like "because of the funny address on the postcard" without telling us what the address is), until the story gets bogged down in this very explicit sex scene.The scene is interesting enough to read, but as you move through the scene, you start to wonder whether the tongue-in-cheek (you should excuse the expression) mystery novel you WERE reading will ever come back or if you have now moved into a hard core porn novel. It does eventually come back, though I started to not like K. very much - I didn't respect her the morning after...and the ending is a tad fast and easy (as is K!) but all in all - I enjoyed the book and would recommend it. I do hope Holmes continues writing - talk about a multi-talented guy!
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