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    What the Lady Wants

    By Jennifer Crusie

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    Mitch Peabody was learning pretty fast that the life of a private detective was nothing like the movies. He'd envisioned a world of tough-talking detectives and smart-mouthed, stunning dames. Instead he saw case after case of cheating husbands, suspicious wives and unsuspecting mistresses until she walked through the door.

    Right down to her stilettos, Mae Sullivan was a knockout with a lethal body...and a lethal family to go with it. There was something not quite on the up-and-up about her, but she came with a case he couldn't afford to refuse and left him with a case of lust he hadn't had since high school. It didn't take long for him to fall for her, hook, line and sinker. But was Mae interested only in catching the double-crossing crooks who murdered her uncle ...or did the lady want to catch him?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin HQN
    Release dateOct 15, 2012
    ISBN9781460305133
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    What the Lady Wants
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    Jennifer Crusie

    Jennifer Crusie has written more than fifteen novels and has appeared on many bestseller lists, including those of Publishers Weekly, USA TODAY and the New York Times.

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    • 5/5
      I loved this story. It kept a great pace through out and I believed the relationship as it developed.
    • 4/5
      Very quick read. Murder mystery/who-done-it with a romance twist.
    • 5/5
      I LOVE Jennifer Crusie. I think she writes the best dialog ever.This is a great book for that. OK, the plot's pretty silly... but the dialog is wonderful, and it's got a happy ending- even for the dog.
    • 3/5
      In walked the lovely and sexy Mae Sullivan, just like in a dime store novel, into the office of a private investigator named Mitchell Peatwick. The plan was to seduce him into helping her to find her Uncles stolen diaries, but what PI would take that job on, so the story had to be more intriguing. Murder, someone murdered her Uncle and stole the diary. That was her story, Mitch was not that gullible no matter how she fit into his fantasies. As far as a mid-life crisis went, thanks to her he might be able to win his bet, but what was the lies all about and did he really want to know. At this point in his private investigative career, after seeing too many divorce cases of who cheated on who, how could he not take on this one, at least the people involved where interesting.I have only read a few of Jennifer Crusie books, but this one ranks right up there out of the few I have read. The romance part was quick (matter of days and they figured it out), the mystery was interesting, complicated and difficult to figure out till the end, and the characters had some silly funny and stupid funny moments. I really liked Mitch and Mae both as well as some of the other characters. Fun, fast and easy read great for a rainy (or snowy) afternoon cuddled up.
    • 2/5
      An older Crusie, and not funny. I like her better when she's funny, I think. The mystery was fun enough, I suppose. For some reason, I completely skimmed the sex scenes. It's important to me to note where I skim, and I'm not quite sure. I think it was the huge blobs of paragraphs. It didn't matter though. Those bits were optional. And that's a bad thing in a book.
    • 4/5
      Another very nice read by Ms Crusie, fun, misterious and sexy :)A mistery sorrounds Mae Sullivan, and Mitch will have to find what it is without revealing his own secrets or falling in love with the stubborn Mae. With a family from hell, she will not be an easy catch...
    • 4/5
      This one is fairly typical Jennifer Crusie, mistaken identity and confusion about people and their roles abound.This one starts in a detective's office, Mitch is the detective and his fantasy of a lush woman coming to ask him to help her with a mystery comes true. But nothing is as it seems and several red herrings abound.Fun and light, this is a quick read.
    • 2/5
      An older Crusie, and not funny. I like her better when she's funny, I think. The mystery was fun enough, I suppose. For some reason, I completely skimmed the sex scenes. It's important to me to note where I skim, and I'm not quite sure. I think it was the huge blobs of paragraphs. It didn't matter though. Those bits were optional. And that's a bad thing in a book.