Fast Women

by Jenny Crusie (Author)

• Used

  Unabridged
  2004

  $12.29

  Nell Dysart is living a too small life in a too small apartment. Her marriage is finished, her career is in limbo, and she feels she has the sex appeal of a skeletal giraffe. But things might be about to change, for Nell has landed a job at a down-and-out detective agency with huge potential for redecoration and a boss who looks easy to manage. A quick spot of dachshund napping, blackmail and embezzlement later and Nell can scarcely believe her life was ever dull. But when somebody starts killing people and unprofessional sex becomes a sticky situation, she starts to wonder just how many more thrills one woman's life can withstand . . .

  'A can't-put-down read . . . scorchio!' B Magazine

  `A sexy and witty read' Hot Stars

  `Zany, funny and sexy, with a cracking plot and some surprisingly sound advice . . . a must-read for women of all ages, everywhere, who want to be seriously entertained. ****' Upfront Magazine

  `A sassy expose of small-town America' Daily Mail

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.27

  Another terrific and sparkling novel from the queen of the romantic thriller, Jennifer Crusie. Nell Dysart is living a too small life in a too small apartment. Weighed down by an inexplicable divorce and a loss of appetite for everything. Nell's not the only one in trouble: her two closest friends (also her sisters-in-law) are just as stuck as she is. Suze is married to a control-freak lawyer who keeps her housebound while she perfects a zen-like denial, and Margie has been stuck in foggy limbo since her husband disappeared seven years ago with a lot of money that didn't belong to him. Good thing Nell has a new job with a down-and-out detective agency that has huge potential for redecoration and a boss who looks easy to manage...Gabe McKenna isn't doing too well either. His detective agency is wasting time on a blackmail case, his partner. Riley, has decided he hates watching cheating spouses for money, and his ex-wife has just dumped him...again. Good thing his new secretary looks efficient, boring and biddable...A week later and Nell and Gabe have squared off over embezzlement, business cards, interior decoration, dachshund-napping, vandalism and unprofessional sex. All of which turn out to be the least of their problems. Because shortly after that, somebody starts killing people. And shortly after that, they start falling in love.