Journal Entry 1 by SimplyCee from Baltimore, Maryland USA on Saturday, March 27, 2010

Take one food writer named Cranky Agnes, add a hitman named Shane, mix them together with a Southern mob wedding, a missing necklace, two annoyed flamingos, and a dog named Rhett, and you've got a recipe for a sexy, hilarious novel about the disastrous side of true love...

Agnes Crandall's life goes awry when a dognapper invades her kitchen one night, seriously hampering her attempts to put on a wedding that she's staked her entire net worth on. Then a hero climbs through her bedroom window. His name is Shane - no last name, just Shane - and he has his own problems: He's got a big hit scheduled, a rival trying to take him out, and an ex-mobster uncle asking him to protect some little kid named Agnes. When he finds out that Agnes isn't so little, that his uncle has forgotten to mention a missing five million bucks he might have lost in Agnes' house, and that his last hit was a miss, Shane's life isn't looking so good, either. Then a bunch of lowlifes come looking for the money, a string of hitmen show up for Agnes, and some wedding guests gather with the intent to throw more than rice. Agnes and Shane have their hands full with greed, florists, treachery, flamingos, mayhem, mothers of the bride, and - most dangerous of all - each other.

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June 17, 2010: Sent to penelopewanders from the Romance VBB on BookObsessed. 

Journal Entry 2 by penelopewanders at BookObsessed VBB, BookObsessed Swap -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, June 27, 2010

This arrived a few days ago but I've been flat out with end of term/year stuff... Thanks so much for sending - one of the few Crusies I've yet to read!  

Journal Entry 3 by penelopewanders at Hasliberg, Bern / Berne Switzerland on Saturday, December 25, 2010

Very strange - I wonder if I read the first chapter of this when i got it, or if it was in the back of another book by her - at anyrate, so far (a few pages in), it is very familiar. Hopefully I'll reach unknown territory soon. At anyrate although I recognize the scene I've been reading, I have no idea where it will go.

Ok, so I had not read it, and it was loads of fun. Liked this one better than the other Mayer Crusie I read.... or maybe I just had been Crusie deprived for too long? Anyway, excellent fun.(less)