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Jury Rigged
Jury Rigged
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. If Stephanie Plum had a Texas cousin, Edgar-finalist Moore's Cézanne Martin, a Fort Worth cop turned lawyer, would be it. Adding extra pizzazz to the hilarious third installment (after 2004's The Wild Orchid Society) is Deuteronomy Duty Devilrow, Cézanne's African-American teenage ward, whose words-from-the-hood often threaten to steal the show. The action opens with a bang as Cézanne wakes up late one night to find a gun in her face-held by Darlene Driskoll, a soon-to-be-convicted crazed murderess and prison escapee. After eluding Driskoll in the course of a harrowing car ride, Cézanne seeks help from the FWPD's star detective, Wolfgang Slash Vaughn. News that Bob Martin, her long-lost dad, has died disrupts her life further when she discovers elderly Aunt Velda squatting in her inheritance, a Fort Worth house. Then Cézanne's brother, Henri Matisse Martin, suddenly appears, wanting his share of their dad's estate. Moore makes sure it's all a hoot and a half. (Dec.)
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From Booklist
*Starred Review* Cézanne Martin, on leave from the police department to set up a law practice, has hit an all-time low. For starters, she didn't know her lover was married. After his wife kills him, she breaks out of jail and comes after Cézanne. Cézanne's house is so thoroughly booby-trapped by the vengeful wife, she can't stay there, what with razors in her sofa, poison in her food, and corrosive chemicals in her soap. Cézanne's bad luck continues when her estranged father dies, leaving her his house, complete with devilishly demented Aunt Velda, who will do anything in her power-legal and otherwise-to keep Cézanne out. To make a horrible situation even more unbearable, Cézanne has inherited custody of Deuteronomy Devilrow, a juvenile delinquent with a flair for voodoo whose sole purpose in life seems to be making Cézanne as crazy as Aunt Velda. Full of dark humor, plot twists, an underlying mood of danger, memorable moments, and characters so colorful they glow neon, the third in Moore's series, following The Lady Godiva Murder (2004) and The Wild Orchid Society (2004), is not to be missed. --Shelley Mosley
Starred Review. If Stephanie Plum had a Texas cousin, Edgar-finalist Moore's Cézanne Martin, a Fort Worth cop turned lawyer, would be it. Adding extra pizzazz to the hilarious third installment (after 2004's The Wild Orchid Society) is Deuteronomy Duty Devilrow, Cézanne's African-American teenage ward, whose words-from-the-hood often threaten to steal the show. The action opens with a bang as Cézanne wakes up late one night to find a gun in her face-held by Darlene Driskoll, a soon-to-be-convicted crazed murderess and prison escapee. After eluding Driskoll in the course of a harrowing car ride, Cézanne seeks help from the FWPD's star detective, Wolfgang Slash Vaughn. News that Bob Martin, her long-lost dad, has died disrupts her life further when she discovers elderly Aunt Velda squatting in her inheritance, a Fort Worth house. Then Cézanne's brother, Henri Matisse Martin, suddenly appears, wanting his share of their dad's estate. Moore makes sure it's all a hoot and a half. (Dec.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Cézanne Martin, on leave from the police department to set up a law practice, has hit an all-time low. For starters, she didn't know her lover was married. After his wife kills him, she breaks out of jail and comes after Cézanne. Cézanne's house is so thoroughly booby-trapped by the vengeful wife, she can't stay there, what with razors in her sofa, poison in her food, and corrosive chemicals in her soap. Cézanne's bad luck continues when her estranged father dies, leaving her his house, complete with devilishly demented Aunt Velda, who will do anything in her power-legal and otherwise-to keep Cézanne out. To make a horrible situation even more unbearable, Cézanne has inherited custody of Deuteronomy Devilrow, a juvenile delinquent with a flair for voodoo whose sole purpose in life seems to be making Cézanne as crazy as Aunt Velda. Full of dark humor, plot twists, an underlying mood of danger, memorable moments, and characters so colorful they glow neon, the third in Moore's series, following The Lady Godiva Murder (2004) and The Wild Orchid Society (2004), is not to be missed. --Shelley Mosley
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