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 A delicious mystery to sink your teeth into Oct 26, 2009
Odessa Wilkes has it all, a prominent job, a charming boyfriend, and the world's most amazing job. Then one day her world came crashing down upon her. When the companies golden boy Burke Peterson is accused of embezzling from the company and flees town the only place left to place the blame is upon his chosen girl Odessa. With her life spinning out of control, she is forced from the company, and on the same day dumped by her boyfriend. Finally when things start to improve for her Burke reappears in her life. He pleads for her help in clearing his name, Odessa reluctantly agrees to help putting her new relationship with Lee in jeopardy. Enlisting the help of her best friend soon to be private eye, Maggie Swift the two are now in the middle of a murder case when the owner of the company ends up murdered. Taking the trail that Burke has led them down the two end up in Las Vegas face to face with member of the mafia. When they finally come back to New York the case takes a completely different turn. Will Maggie and Odessa be able to help the FBI find the real murder, or will Burke pay for a crime he did not commit?
"Drop Dead Delicious", is truly a delicious novel that will have you coming back for seconds. With something to offers everyone from mysterious coded quilts, the FBI, a cake baking contest, love triangles and so many more juicy subjects one must read this book. Jill Brock has created a cast of characters that are a diverse as the spices in my cabinet, although when blended together bake up a masterpiece. "Drop Dead Delicious", is the perfect book to sink your teeth into.
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 A fun mystery Oct 04, 2009
Cake maker/dessert chef Odessa Wilkes is infuriated when Burke Peterson, her former boss at Manhattan advertising agency Eastman/Hendrick, returns to New York City after embezzling charges against him are dropped. Odessa lost her job due to her business relationship with him and is still carrying a grudge.
When the head of Eastman/Kendrick is found murdered, fingers point to Burke as the killer. Burke maintains his innocence and enlists the help of Odessa and her friend Maggie, a mother and private investigator in training.
Odessa must juggle a jealous boyfriend, a former boyfriend, a menacing sister, two FBI agents, a bake-off and more in her attempt at vindicating Burke.
Jill Brock's "Drop Dead Delicious" is a fun who-done-it. Odessa and Maggie are colorful and engaging characters with a lot of chutzpah. I especially enjoyed their escapades in Las Vegas. I would recommend this to anyone who loves a humorous mystery. However, the book would benefit from a round of copy editing.
Wild and Crazy Meets Mystery! Sep 02, 2009
Drop Dead Delicious by Jill Brock caught me from the first page. Maggie and Odessa are on a stake out. They are staking out a cheating husband. Of course things don't go as planned. You see Maggie is a Private Investigator apprentice to Frank the retired police detective, and part time Private Investigator. Frank rips his pants and can't take the pictures of the cheating husband. He's stuck in a booth in the bar until Maggie and Odessa can walk him out to cover his pants problem. So Maggie and Odessa go to take the pictures, and find out that it isn't a regular cheating husband scenario.
This is just the start of the upside down things that happen in this book. Odessa lost her job in an advertising agency when her former boss Burke Peterson absconded with millions of dollars from their employer and got her fired. That horrible former boss is back. I won't tell you everything that happens in this book and spoil it for you. I'll just say that I enjoyed every moment I spent reading it. It's a real joy to read and will keep you enthralled until the end!
Have Your Delicious Cake & Eat It Too! Aug 27, 2009
First, you must know that this book "Drop Dead Delicious" by Jill Brock is the second in the series of the Maggie and Odessa Mysteries. If you haven't read the first book its OK you won't be lost...both characters are described well enough you'll be rooting for them right from the beginning.
Maggie is a PI in the making who works with Frank the PI man with the office. She has the husband and child and bakes on the side making killer cakes. Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too?
Odessa's is her best friend and partner in crime or should I say side-kick. She has the lawyer boyfriend and has been through the ringer with her ex-boyfriend but thinks he's innocent when he's accused of embezzlement and murder. So who would you ask to defend him? You got it! The lawyer boyfriend, that in itself brings in trouble. There's mafia involvement, well maybe not the actual mafia, there's quilt making, recipe investigating, Bake-Offs ... what else could go wrong or right?
It only gets better and turns into a page turner with all the crazy things the gals get caught up in trying to help/solve this case first. I won't give all the details of the book. It's an exciting, fast paced and fun read.
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 couldn't be worse if it tried Jun 27, 2009
This is the most unfortunate excuse for a book that I have ever had the misfortune to read.
It was impossible to keep up a flow of words with all the mistakes she makes.
She left out words, used the wrong words, changed verb tenses in the middle of the sentence, misspelled words, used the wrong punctuations or no punctuations when needed.
You can tell this was a vanity press published book. No editor would ever let ANY of those thousands of mistakes by.
Just a couple of examples: "Maybe he half expected me to take up the offer he knew Burke would ask." Or: "I was where I wanted to be, even though my house was being evaded by man stuff." Both on page 311.
Now really!
So bad. And her storyline wasn't that awful. Her ending was a real stretch. Winding up all the loose ends with, basically, he told us what we wanted to know. But who could concentrate on the story when all one saw was mistake after mistake.
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