Review: Rocky Start

Rocky Start by Jennifer Crusie
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Well, I thought that nothing would ever be as amusing and as comforting a read as was, but I was wrong!

This book takes the cake. What do you get when you fill a town with retired CIA specialists? And I do mean specialists! You get one of the safest towns to live in, don't you...well, as long as they like you!
And what happens to that town when the 'head' or sheriff dies? Do you sneak someone else in, or is that a bad thing?

At any rate, this was a great mystery (sort of) with some nooky stuck-in, and it looks like there may be a couple more books based in this town, hopefully with the same people!

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SYNOPSIS: "Rose Malone’s landlord and employer has just died and now she has no idea if she has a job or if she and her daughter, Poppy, have a place to live, and that’s on top of the arrest warrant that’s been out for her for nineteen years. Then a stranger shows up and tries to throw her out. It just isn’t the week to do that. She smacks him with a reproduction of the Maltese Falcon and then somebody grabs him and throws him into the street.

Max Reddy just wants his boots. He’s walking the Appalachian trail with his dog, Maggs, trying to leave behind a life as an elite covert operative, and stopping in Rocky Start to pick up supplies, when he sees a feisty middle-aged woman get backhanded by a guy in a suit. Max throws the jerk into the street and continues on his way, determined to get his boots and get out of town, even if Feisty was pretty cute. He’s been alone on the trail a long time. Some trees are looking good to him.

Rose needs to know what’s going on, so she follows Max to the post office, no ulterior motive, honest. Except to pick his pocket to find out who he is, then he can go. But by nightfall, she’s invited him under her roof for her own protection since they're dealing with a town full of retired spies, including a suspicious sheriff, a sly-eyed moocher, a knife-wielding bakery owner, a stranger who looks like she drinks the blood of the damned, a conniving teenager, and a dog who's decided she's done with the Appalachian Trail.

And Max is starting to think his dog is right.

Rocky This could be the start of something dangerous.

From the authors who brought you Agnes and the Hitman and the Liz Danger series, a new series in a similar vein.
To be followed by
Very Nice Funerals
The Honey Pot Plot"