collaboration

     I've been a fan of Jennifer Crusie's for a long time now; as for Bob Mayer, I leapt to fandom with the release of the first collaboration between these two ~ Don't Look Down. In fact, the two books written by this duo are the only books that I actually happily got in hardcover ~ and that's a rarity indeed.
      I've got two of Mayer's Dave Riley books and I'm seriously looking for the rest... but I have to say that they're extremely hard to come across.  The two that I do have I got from his website. 
As funny as Crusie's stories are, Mayer's are serious thrillers, but the two of them combined write killer stories that just cannot be read, at least by me, without a great deal of semi-hysterical laughter and plenty of out-and-out guffawing.  Man, hard to believe that two such diverse authors can write stories that are seamlessly crafted stories and seem to be very much the work of one marvelously talented author.

RATING:
Excellence: Excellent to Outstanding ~ 4.5 stars
Steaminess: Sensual