Danny Walker is tracking Paulina Chourney who fell deep into the dark side of life and is lucky to get out before her boyfriend Maddox kills her. She escapes Maddox and arrives in a small town, which she sees as a blessing in disguise since the men she worked for would never think to look for her in a lazy, backwater place like Packham. She changes her name to Katie Mullins, makes a deal on a little bookstore and joins a local writing group then successfully fades into anonymity. Until Danny Walker shows up to visit family and figures out who she is. When Paulina catches her 80-year-old landlady Hilda Clayton sneaking out in the middle of the night, the bad guys catch up to her and Danny disappears. Katie has to choose between spending her ...
This Private Investigators give to us some advantages, like this :
1. It works for a while, and then it stumbles
Having two POVs is really well done and easy to follow; the characters are real enough, and the protagonists are likable enough. The theme of escaping from crime-boss works, though I almost put the book down because the early chapters under crime boss control -- the lady so doped, drunk, and regularly abused -- didn't sound like someone who could be saved in the short time to be the primary protagonist.
But she did escape, and thus began the next phase of living undercover, just coincidentally in the home town of the under-cover cop who rescued her from the crime boss, but neither of them recognizes each other right away. That was pushing it a bit, but again well done so that it worked.
What finally didn't work for me was the conversion to Cozy by way of turning the plot over to a group of seniors (too many of them) with some antics that stretched it too far, and spending too much time introducing each of them to play their parts as co-heroes. They might have...
2. Great story
I liked this from the beginning through the end. It had a great message as well. It also had a cute little love story.
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Not my kind of book
Not my kind of book, from the reviews it sounded good. When I started reading it was not my kind of book.
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