Review: Perfect Beach Read!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2014
To Catch a Creeper is the sequel to Looking For La La. After Cathy overcomes the La La fiasco, she finds her self on live TV; tongue tied during an interview: All through the interview I keep getting these uncanny impulses to indulge in a touch of Tourette's spouting obscenities while intermittently flashing a nipple, (5). I can totally relate to Cathy's nervous reaction; not so much the flashing but the uncanny impulses.Cathy goes from an unappreciated housewife in Looking For La La to a businesswoman at an advertising firm in To Catch a Creeper. However, she's dealing with the absence of some of her best friends. One night Declan asks, "Heard anything from Gabby or anyone?" By anyone, he meant half of my close friends who seemed to disappear at roughly the same time towards the end of last year. Not exactly a case of one got squashed, one got lost, one had an operation. More one got sent to an asylum, one emigrated and the other disappeared to Cornwall in an attempt to get her teenagers off the weed, (12).She's also dealing with sharks in the office tank. Cathy describes talking to one such shark, Vivien, as "someone gently stroking you with a razor blade. Superficially friendly but slightly terrifying as you never know when they're going to turn it sideways and nick you," (15). After her best friend Rosa (Raz) goes on maternity leave, Cathy is forced to fend for herself without any trustworthy co-workers. To make matters worse, her boss Turks gives her a high profile assignment that leaves her floundering.To add to the mix, there's a burglar, The Crouch End Creeper, amiss in her neighborhood and Cathy is determined to find out who it is. How hard can it be? She did after all solve the La La mystery!This is another perfect beach read and I think these novels would be excellent book club picks as well.