Product Description

When Shawn Donnelly gets into trouble, she does it well. She can't even go on a little weekend getaway with her old college chums without running into a corpse or two. And to top things off, her new co-worker seems to have a very unnatural interest in the serial killer that's running rampant in the Detroit metro area. It's no wonder why Shawn decides to take up a nice, safe hobby like theatre.

No matter what Shawn does--from falling in love with a woman who might be a murderer, to breaking into a co-worker's home in search of dead bodies--she does it with her own flair.

Join Therese Szymanski as she takes a walk on the sillier side of the gritty crime scene detective novel and introduces readers to her newest alternate personality--Shawn Donnelly.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #639033 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 277 pages

Customer Reviews

Disappointing
I was really looking forward to reading this book, but it was agonizing to get through. The story was disjointed and hard to follow, the main characters Irish dialect would have been charming had it not been overused and distracting. I was extremely disappointed in this book, and this character.
Better luck, and writing, next time, I hope.

A fun read
In Greek mythology Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy by Apollo and then cursed by him when he made sure that no one would believe her. Shawn Donelly must carry some of Cassandra's genetic material in her blood, with a slight twist. Shawn has inherited a sixth sense from her Irish grandmothers. The problem is that Shawn is the queen of misdirection. She usually figures out "what" is wrong, but she invariably is confused about "who" created the problem. Shawn bumbles her way through three mysteries, sometimes helped by old friends from college, but often hindered by them also. In the first she comes to suspect all of her friends when they are isolated in a mountain cabin and one of them is murdered. The second has Shawn convinced the grizzly serial killer who is terrorizing men in the city is working in the cubicle near hers. In the final story, the interactive murder theater that Shawn and her friends are performing for an audience becomes more realistic than what they rehearsed. As Shawn stumbles around trying to solve the mysteries, she will have the reader wondering, if she was your friend, would you laugh with her or have her committed to an institution?

These stories are fresh and go in directions the reader will not anticipate. At times it's not certain whether a character should be liked or slapped, but they're definitely fun to read about. This book is definitely worth spending a few hours with.

Another Big Disappointment
I should know better than to trust the reviews but once again I did and instead of getting a mystery type of drama this book is three disjointed stories filled with juvenile wisecracks and only moderately okay writing. I had hoped that this author had gotten past the writing of all the cheesy plots and would write something with a little depth but this character barely manages to skate on the surface. At least the stories aren't filled with needless smut as some of the authors previous books have been. So this one is yet another big disappointment and I ought to have learned my lesson but at least I can sell it back here to some other unsuspecting customer.