Three Bedrooms, Two Baths, One Very Dead Corpse: An Amanda Thorne Mystery
Location, location, location. Like any realtor worth her designer sling-backs, Amanda Thorne knows the golden rule of selling homes. Unless, of course, the prime property includes one very dead corpse... Amanda is pretty resilient, but she's taken a few hard knocks since she moved to plush Palm...
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Location, location, location. Like any realtor worth her designer sling-backs, Amanda Thorne knows the golden rule of selling homes. Unless, of course, the prime property includes one very dead corpse... Amanda is pretty resilient, but she's taken a few hard knocks since she moved to plush Palm Springs. After a divorce from her husband and business partner, Alex, she's determined to make it on her own in real estatedespite scorpions, 100-degree heat, and an encounter with a cactus en route to her first big listing. And when she finally arrives at the Mid-century modern manse, a lifeless body in the living room really ruins the ambiance. Amid the shattered Eames surfboard table and vintage glassware lies local environmentalist Doc Winters, his mouth stuffed full of rocks. Since Doc's main cause was opposing development in the pristine, tremendously valuable Chino Cone mountains, every realtor in town is suspect. So Amanda embarks on her own investigation. With the help of Alexwho it turns out is gay but still her Best Friend Foreverher red-hot geriatric neighbor, Regina, and the reluctant cooperation of dishy Detective Ken Becker, she sets out to unravel the truth. After a fellow real estate agent is murdered, some pissed-off Black Widow spiders planted in her car, and a body found floating in her pool, it's clear someone wants Amanda's inquiring mind off the marketpermanently. But she's tracking down this killer...even if it leads her to death's handcrafted, Mission style door. Advance Praise For Three Bedrooms, Two Baths, One Very Dead Corpse "In this wild cross between Agatha Christie and Million Dollar Listing, it's an Open House for laughter and suspense when murder brings down the Palm Springs housing market, and the only thing cool about the blistering desert heat is real estate agent and amateur sleuth Amanda Thorne, who is crass, brash and totally hilarious as she tries to unmask the killer."
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780758206312 (0758206313)
ASIN: 9780758206312
Publish date: 01-10-2010
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pages no: 268
Edition language: English
The first chapter is funny with at least two mild chuckles that escaped from my lips. That chapter was also long and hyper. I had to go take a nap before continuing, and I do not take naps.Amanda Thorne is a woman of obsessions and repeated mention of low confidence. A successful real estate agent b...
While the plot is a cozy, the language certainly isn't. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the plot and the humour and the author did a fine job with character development and setting, but wow! I am known to swear, and I tolerate colourful language in my books, but some of this was way beyond the pale an...