Review: If you like humor, you will probably find this one a lot of fun.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2012
Disclaimer to begin - I have trouble with books that are supposed to be funny.  I think I read them as though they were serious and as a result much of the humor seems ridiculous or unbelievable or I just plain miss it.  I do better with humor when it is visual.  That is the case with this book.  I had to get a ways into it before I could go with humor flow to visualize the events and suspend realism.  Having said that, I actually smiled a time or two near the end of the book - amazing, actually.This is the story of Lucy who loses her librarian job and takes a temporary as a secretary for a detective agency.  Because of her unbelievable ability to make up and tell lies on the run, she begins to help with the investigations.  That is until the attempt to take a bail jumper turns deadly, resulting in his murder.  Lucy is initially the prime suspect and is determined to find the murderer herself, since the police don't seem to be doing their job right.  There follows the chain of events, which are supposed to be funny and sometimes actually are.Add in the love interest, Danny, who owns the agency with his father.  Danny and Lucy "live" together in the apartment attached to the agency.  But, in order to keep things on a business only relationship, Danny tells Lucy he is gay.  I thought this whole line of the story was part of the ridiculous.  The author must have mentioned a hundred times that Danny was gay.  Only an idiot would have failed to get the message that he was just stringing Lucy along.My other problem with the book is that everything was so predictable.  I love mysteries, but this was a slapstick comedy posing as mystery and it just didn't do anything for me.  I can see that people who like the comedy part would have a lot of fun with the story.I received a free copy of the book in exchange for writing a review.