To Give or Deceive

Rating:
Summary: Don't pass up - this is a 7+
Review: Don't pass up this series just because it features an investment broker and an IRS agent. This series is far from boring. It is fast paced, humorous and has a mystery which will keep you guessing until the end. In my opinion Malinda Terreri's Maggie Connors is running strong for 1st place over Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series (especially over Evanovich's last couple of books). If you like Evanovich, Nancy Bartholomew or Sarah Strohmeyer (Bubbles), you will definitely like Malinda Terreri. This book kept me turning the pages and laughing at her descriptions and remarks. I can't wait for her next book and hope for a long, long series.

Rating:
Summary: Really a 7! Highly recommended!...
Review: Malinda Terreri offers some very strong competition for Evanovich!

Rating:
Summary: A model for mysteries!
Review: Mystery writers are encouraged to keep the suspense high and to keep torturing the characters. Terreri does this in spades. Maggie Connors loses everything - money, clients, job, credibility and even (possibly) freedom, when she is arrested on suspicion of murder. And of course her own life is threatened by a distraught former client.

Amazingly, author Terreri pulls it off, and the ending manages to be more plausible than one would expect. It's a fast read with interesting characters. The IRS-agent who's her boyfriend may be a little too good to be true, but that's a minor quibble in anotherwise first-rate mystery.
I hope we see a lot more from this author.