Killer Commute (Charlie Greene Mysteries (Hardcover))

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Summary: Really good book!
Review: Since I wrote a bad review for Nobody Dies In A Casino, I thought I ought to write a good one for this book, since I really enjoyed it. (I still don't like the casino one though.) I read this in one night so I know I liked it. I like Libby too and would like to see her in more of these books. She's almost as funny as her mom. Read it...it's a little farfetched in spots but who cares if you are enjoying the story!

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Summary: A Commute in Overdrive
Review: This really is a pretty long, boring commute. The traffic doesn't move much, and the road takes the reader through a whole lot of over-complicated and over-decorated scenery. Not to overdo the metaphor (but why not? Marlys Millhiser certainly does) I felt as though I were stuck in traffic, looking out my car window while a group of strangers hurried past me. I didn't care about them, and they didn't stop long enough to include me in the events. Add to that a gimmicky prose style, a virtually unintelligible dialogue, and a synthetic and twisted plot--and you have this novel: a perfectly awful journey that couldn't end fast enough. Avoid the drive.

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Summary: A compelling, dynamic, page-turner of a mystery
Review: When California literary agent Charlie Green begins her vacation by shutting off the phone and putting out the cat, she also finds the body of her neighbor slumped in his SUV. Charlie has a track record for stumbling over bodies, so she automatically becomes the prime suspect. This in turn leads to a wild ride through suburban Long Beach with a killer stalking her condo complex. Add dangerous secrets, hidden cash, a strategically placed bomb, a temporary loss of hearing, and a stint in jail, there is no getting around the fact the for Charlie, vacations can be murder! Killer Commute is a compelling, dynamic, page-turner of a mystery from first to last!