Jump the Gun by Zoe Burke
Beatrice Anabelle Starkey is a book
publicist attending a convention in Chicago when she meets Mickey Paxton, a
salesman for a big publishing house.
Anabelle isn’t the type to fly off to Vegas for the weekend, but when
Mickey suggests the rendezvous, she jumps for it. So begins the whirlwind romance and a bunch
of scary stuff. Anabelle is kidnapped,
Mickey is jumped and the woman who was cat sitting for Anabelle turns up dead
in Anabelle’s apartment. Enter an
assorted bunch of fun characters including a senior on the lam from her nursing
home, a moonlighting taxi driver, and the very wonderful parents of Anabelle.
Fans of Janet Evanovich will enjoy
the fast paced action and the random one-liners. Starkey is a MAJOR movie fan and the author
loves to quote and reference movies in her dialogue and descriptions. There are a lot of strange twists and turns and
overall the story is a mystery with more than a touch of romance. This is more like the first few Evanovich
stories which were light in tone but serious when it came to the underlying mystery. People are murdered, the stakes are high and
there is more than a little blood.
This is a fun listen, the reader has
a unique voice that really works well, and it is a short listen, which was
great because all the audiobooks I’ve been checking out lately seem to have
over 14 discs in them. It was nice to finish
a whole story in a week.
