Whole Lotta Trouble

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Summary: Stephanie Bond is great!
Review: After a decade of reading Nora Roberts, Sandra Brown and Susan Elizabeth Philips, I was looking for a new author. I picked up a Stephanie Bond novel at a hotel book exchange and was hooked. She's a great writer! I have read three of her books so far and they are all witty, fun and well-written.

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Summary: GREAT story with lots of action.
Review: I really loved the two main characters for this book. I was sad to put it down. It really flew along and had a wonderful suspenseful storyline. I immediately began looking for more books by Stephanie Bond since this was the first one I read. I hope they are all as wonderful as this one.

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Summary: delightful police procedural romance
Review: In Manhattan, Parkbench Publishing Editor Tallie Blankenship has spent nine years at the company that releases romance and mystery novels. When her boss Ron Springer tells her he has to leave town, he also assigns her with handling their top selling writer Gaylord Cooper. At the same time her nutty domestic engineer extraordinaire mom asks her to meet her best friend's son Keith Wages, who turns out to be a cop living in a house in Brooklyn.

Keith saves her life when a robber begins shooting at a restaurant where they meet for the first time. Keith likes Tallie and wants to see her, but she is reluctant because she is the polar opposite of her mother as undomesticated as they come. Still, as he investigates a murder of a cohort they fall in love, but will Tallie see he wants her just the way she is.

This is a delightful police procedural romance with two wonderful tales of love (Tallie's best friend and mentor, a closet domesticate and a biking messenger besides the obvious lead couple). The story line focuses more on relationships especially between Tallie and Keith rather than the investigation though the latter enhances the fine warm tale of an odd couple falling in love.


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Summary: Good Read
Review: Tallie Blankenship works for a publishing house. She has been picked to edit a manuscript by one of the top writers. His agent Jerry Key, a bottom-feeder has let her know he expects her to be VERY nice to him if she wants to edit the book.

Felicia Redmon an editor at a different publisher, and a friend of Tallie's had a red hot romance with Jerry and she is still in love with the cad. She has just received a nude picture of herself by messenger, she is sure Jerry sent it. As either a threat or a manouver to get her back in bed.

Jane Glass an editor for an e-book publisher has found out that Jerry plagurized one of the books she sent to him. He passed it along to his latest paramour.

The three girls interned togather when they were learning the business. Now as they get togather to have a cup of coffee they find out that Jerry has been a bad boy to all of them.

Jerry winds up dead, after the three ladies pull a rather nasty joke on him.

Keith Wages is a detective on the NYPD, his mom knows Tallie's mom, Being from a small town, they think it would be nice for their children to meet. While Tallie knows her mom is matchmaking she agrees to meet Keith at a coffee shop. It isn't the greatest joy in her life to find out he is a police officer after finding out Jerry was stabbed to death shortly after the prank the three pulled on him.

Not only is Jerry dead, but Tallie's boss has disappeared, and so has the manuscript.

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Summary: Creative twist to the story
Review: This is my first Stephanie Bond book and I'm sure won't be my last. It's a cute mystery with some romance thrown in. Three women, a cute cop, and a missing manuscript... all make a good fun read.