Agnes and the Hitman
 
Please Login or Join to Download.

Thumbnails:

Description:

From Publishers Weekly
Crusie and Mayer (Don't Look Down) reunite to pen this mostly successful romantic comedy with a hint of action-adventure. Agnes Crandall is a feisty food writer and cookbook author on her third fiancé, Taylor Beaufort. Though their future looks bright, their romance is curdling, partly due to their deal with widowed mob wife Brenda Fortunato (who is selling them her old house) to hold a Fortunato family wedding at their house in exchange for three months of payments. After an armed thug tries to kidnap Agnes's dog, who appeared in the local paper wearing a gaudy necklace that Agnes believes (incorrectly) to be junk, a Fortunato family friend (and mobster) asks hit man Shane to keep an eye on Agnes. (He does more, of course, than keep an eye on her.) Brenda, meanwhile, may be trying to screw Agnes out of the house, and then there's the matter of a body and $5 million possibly hidden in thebasement. Crusie and Mayer have crafted a bubbly novel with enough convenient coincidences, caricatured characters and ridiculous situations to make screenwriters of goofball date movies proud; amusing banter and surprising moments of poignancy keep the mushrooming plot barely in check. (Aug.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.   

From AudioFile
Cranky Agnes, a columnist and author of the cookbook MOB FOOD, purchases the house of her dreams. She must have the wedding of her goddaughter there or lose the house to its former owner, a mobster widow. When Agnes whacks an intruder with a skillet and he falls through her kitchen wall into a secret room, she starts a chain of comic adventures. Filled with quirky characters, including a love interest whos a hit man, this offering is replete with sassy dialogue, mouth-watering meals, and zany twists. Agness imaginary conversations with her therapist are priceless. Sandra Burr is perfect in her delivery. A.C.P. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine  --This text refers to the   Audio CD edition.

Submitted On:

08 Jul 2008

File Author:

Crusie, Jennifer

File Size:

13.08 MB