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So Carlotta Wren's life hasn't turned out as she'd planned. She didn't plan for her parents to skip bail for a white-collar crime, leaving her to raise her brother. She didn't plan on having the silver spoon ripped from her mouth and forgoing college to work retail. She didn't plan on her blue-blood fiancé dumping her. And she didn't plan on still being single ten years later, working at Neiman Marcus, with no idea where her fugitive parents are. But she's coping. Until...
...her lovable brother is arrested, and the hunky cop decides to reopen her parents' case.
...her brother becomes a body mover for the morgue, and his sexy boss gets Carlotta involved.
...her former fiancé's wife (a good customer) is murdered, fingering Carlotta.
With three men in her life, Carlotta has added motivation to help bag a murderer to keep her own well-dressed body from being next on the list!
From the Compact Disc edition.
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Release date
October 7, 2008 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781415958452
- File size: 328520 KB
- Duration: 11:24:24
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Cassandra Campbell's voice drips with Southern charm, and her acting abilities shine in this fast-paced romp. Campbell is endearing and just a little naughty as beautiful Carlotta Wren, who goes from not being able to get a date to being overrun with eligible bachelors as she tries to solve the mystery of who killed her ex-fiancé's wife, a woman who also happened to be Carlotta's best, although nastiest, retail sales customer. Campbell is equally adroit in her portrayal of Carlotta's bad-boy but cute little brother, a gambling addict who works as a body mover for a funeral home. His vocation provides several amusing moments in the story, as well as a motley collection of minor characters, including a "goth" caterer and several loan sharks' collection enforcers. A.C.P. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine -
Starred review from June 18, 2007
Bond’s charming new Carlotta Wren mystery (after 2006’s Body Movers
) has all the ingredients for a chic sleuth-a-thon, from identity theft and designer clothes to dead bodies and poker. Rich girl–turned–Neiman’s shop girl Carlotta was left at 18 to raise her 10-year-old brother, Wesley, after their parents, Randolph and Valerie, skipped town to avoid investment fraud charges. Ten years later, snarky Atlanta DA Kelvin Lucas has reopened the case. Grouchy love interest Det. Jack Terry wants information that Carlotta’s afraid to divulge. Randolph makes a mysterious call to Carlotta and also gets in touch with Peter Ashford, her attentive ex-fiancé. Wesley, an oddly likable slacker and compulsive gambler, believes in their dad’s innocence, but Carlotta’s not so sure. When a woman with Carlotta’s car and I.D. apparently kills herself, Lucas requests a fake funeral to lure her parents back. Bond keeps the pace frantic, the plot tight and the laughs light, and supplies a cliffhanger ending that’s a bargain at twice the price.
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