Nancy Smith Gibson
I was looking for a good read when I started this one. Coming off the last book, I needed something to take the bad out of my head and renew my reading enthusiasm. When I ran into a few clichés and corny expressions in the first pages of Liar, Liar, I thought, “Oh no! Not another one!” But I pressed on, and am I glad I did.
This is one of those books you can’t put down. Funny and smart it’s a page-turner from first till last. Cat DeLuca, much to her large Italian family’s dismay, owns the Pants on Fire Detective Agency. She catches cheating husbands. One day, while trailing one, a building blows up and Cat ends up in the hospital. The police say the man she was trailing died in the explosion, but she has seen him afterwards, several times. Everyone thinks she is delusional, but Cat knows what she know—or does she? Why doesn’t she take the nice, safe job as a police dispatcher if she wants to play cop like her brothers? Because what’s the fun in that?
And that’s what you’ll have reading this. Fun. With her policeman brothers and ‘retired’ mobster/deli-owner ‘uncle’ trying to keep her safe, she’s determined to solve the mystery in this hard-to-put-down book.
The authors of Liar, Liar are three sisters: Julianne, Kristen, and Kari Larsen. This is the first of what I hope is a long series of Cat DeLuca mysteries. I can hardly wait for the next one.
Liar, Liar by K.J. Larsen. Poisoned Pen Press.
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