Header PromotionStella, Get Your Gun
This is a Silhouette Bombshell book, first published in 2004, but it's the first time I've read it. It was given to me by my Aunt to read,which is kind of funny, once you get into the story...
If you are a fan of Stephanie Plum’s character by Janet Evanovich, then you’re going to love this book. If you’ve never read a Stephanie Plum novel, but enjoy a book that has some “true to life” escapades that we could all see ourselves getting into and having a good laugh at ourselves, then you’ll love this book.
Stella Luna Maria Vallochi ran from her small Pennsylvania hometown as soon she could. Trying to forget the guy who humiliated her in high school, she ends up as a police officer in Florida. Stella comes home early to surprise her live-in boyfriend, and fellow cop, only to be surprised herself. What does she discover, except Lloyd the dog on the front steps and her “sick” partner in bed with her boyfriend. Needless to say, not what she was hoping for. Sick at heart and with no place else to go, she asks the dog to join her and drives off, heading for home. Her cell phone is constantly ringing, believing it to be her boyfriend; she turns it off so she doesn’t have to deal with him. When she arrives home, it’s to find the home she’s lived in since her parent’s deaths, is occupied by the townsfolk paying their last respects to her aunt Lucy on the death of her uncle Benny. Stella is shocked at the news. Everyone believed Benny had died of a heart attack. Stella questions the findings and asks about an autopsy. It’s discovered that her Uncle was murdered. Stella is fighting mad and determined to find her Uncle’s killer. In an attempt to do this she has to confront Jake Carpenter, her high school sweetheart and the boy who broke her heart, enlist the help of her cousin Nina, try to get information out of the local police, and keep herself one step ahead of everyone else. While trying to do all this, her Aunt believes Lloyd the do is Stella’s Uncle Benny reincarnated, their house is broken into and she confronts the intruders in nothing more than a bath towel. She’s almost blown-up, shot at, thrown in jail and knocked unconscious, all in the name of justice or in Stella’s case retribution. She decides there’s something else beneath the surface of things and is trying to figure it all out, when she finds her aunt is being interrogated by an unknown assailant in a hidden room in the basement of their house. Stella comes to learn the truth behind everything that’s been going on around her family. In the end Stella gets her man, Jake, and in this case the murderer too.
The predicaments Stella and her family become embroiled in, throughout this story, can bring tears of laughter to your eyes. This is a fantastic story. You can bet I’ll be looking for other books by Nancy Bartholomew.
Trice
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