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Title: Dying to Meet You: A Samantha Shaw Mystery by Jennifer Apodaca ISBN: 0-7582-0074-9 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A client is murdered, could they be after the dating svc?
Comment: Samantha Shaw bought Heart Mates, a dating service, after her husband died of a peanut allergy as a tribute of their love. They'd met there. Then she discovered that for 13 years she'd been married to a drug dealer who collected women's panties. He was murdered by one of his mistresses. And he'd planned to run out on her and their two sons with a half-million dollars of stolen drug money.
Now she is mentoring Faye Miller. She is helping her launch her business Faye's Printing and Design by having her design and print advertising brochures for Heart Mates. When Samantha shows up at Faye's motel room for their breakfast meeting, she finds Faye dead, murdered. Samantha did some investigating into her husband's murder and Detective Vance makes her promise she won't get involved in this murder.
Adam Miller, Faye's husband, asks Samantha to look into Faye's murder. He is their number one suspect and he swears he didn't do it. He wasn't happy Faye had gone to Heart Mates, but they were separated and he now swears he finally agreed to the divorce. He was at Faye's the night she was murdered, but other cars were seen outside her room as well.
With the help of Samantha's grandpa, he's a whiz on the internet, and working under her sexy boyfriend Gabe's PI licence, Samantha begins to poke around. Detective Vance is not happy and tries to stop her at every turn. But as Samantha gets deeper into the investigation, she puts herself and others in danger.
This is one of the best new series around. I love the sexual tension between Samantha and Gabe. I wonder if this author didn't write romances before. It gives enough details, but doesn't go too far.
Her grandpa is a great character too. He was a magician before he retired and has so many magician friends and can find out information from the computer. Samantha often doesn't want to know how or where he got the information!
Her mother is another great character. She is always trying to get Samantha to sell the dating service and become a realtor like her. Samantha has no interest in becoming a realtor but her mother just doesn't get it.
I highly recommend this book. It is a fun, fast read and leaves you wanting more!
Rating: 4
Summary: Good new series potential...
Comment: Samantha Shaw stumbles into a murder investigation when she discovers Faye, a friend and client of Heart Mates, Samantha's dating agency, strangled in a hotel room. This is the second time Samantha has been involved in a murder investigation-the first was the murder of her husband, during which Samantha discovered some unwelcome truths about her marriage. Thrust into creating a new life for herself and her two sons, she runs a dating agency, reviews romance writers, and dabbles in private investigations. As part of this earlier investigation, Samantha developed an acrimonious relationship with the local police department, and gained a new boyfriend-a younger, handsome stud named Gabe.
The plot of Dying to Meet You focuses on finding Faye's killer among the citizens of their small town. Suspects include Faye's estranged husband, the married man Faye had an affair with, his wife, and the partner of someone Faye met through the dating agency. Samantha becomes involved to clear Faye's husband of suspicion, and relies on Gabe's private investigation business to attempt to legalize her work. The romance between Gabe and Samantha is complicated by Samantha's growing attraction to a new police officer in town-one who writes romance novels in his spare time!
Well written for the cozy genre, Dying to Meet You is a quick and easy read. Some unfortunate plot elements and awkward handling disturb the flow and are inconsistent with the characters personalities and intelligence. The Samantha Shaw character has great potential to develop into an intelligent, madcap heroine series.
Rating: 4
Summary: AN ENTERTAINING MIX OF CRIME AND COMEDY
Comment: Jennifer Apodaca's first foray into the writing world of light hearted mysteries, Dating Can Be Murder, was a rousing success. With heroine Samantha Shaw she had created a protagonist to whom we can all relate - by turns upbeat and angry, incorrigible and adorable.
Readers were eager to see what Sam would be up to next - now we know.
Remember that Sam runs a dating service, Heart Mates; she's divorced with a current heart throb named Gabe, a private investigator. Things are running smoothly or so she thinks until she finds a most unexpected surprise - the dead body of her once client, Faye Miller.
Sam knows better than to get involved in the solving of this murder, but she does anyway because the media ties Heart Mates to the killing. After reading through Faye's files she finds several promising suspects: a jealous husband, and a former date, Dominic Danger.
Bad enough that Sam has to try to defend her business but she also has to put up with the insufferably sexist, braggadocios Detective Logan Vance. She doesn't need antagonists, but she does need all the help she can get or she may wind up just as dead as Faye.
Another mixture of crime and comedy from the promising Jennifer Apodaca.
- Gail Cooke
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Title: Dating Can Be Murder: A Samantha Shaw Mystery by Jennifer Apodaca ISBN: 0758200757 Publisher: Kensington Mass Market Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Top O' the Mournin' : A Passport to Peril Mystery by Maddy Hunter ISBN: 0743458125 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Murder of a Barbie and Ken by Denise Swanson ISBN: 0451210727 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: May the Best Man Die by Deborah Donnelly ISBN: 0440241294 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Alpine for You : A Passport to Peril Mystery by Maddy Hunter ISBN: 0743458117 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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