Nobody But You
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Publisher Description
Known for sparkling originality and dazzling dialogue, USA Today bestselling author Julie Kenner blends the intrigue of film noir with the fun of a sexy romance in this fast and flirty new novel.
Sexy private investigator David Anderson takes one look at Jacey Wilder and knows she's no femme fatale. The red-headed smart-aleck in his office couldn't be more different from the tight-skirted dames he creates in the pulp fiction novels he writes in his spare time. But Jacey is a paying customer and he's encountered precious few of those lately. All he has to do is track down her old boyfriend. How hard could it be?
With her thirtieth birthday fast approaching, Jacey is determined to get her life on track. Locating her old flame -- a suave, normal guy -- seems like the logical first step. But when she enlists the services of P.I. Anderson, logic is suddenly in short supply: the tough-talking detective is the one who is making her blood sizzle and Jacey's starting to wonder if the man she's really searching for isn't right under her nose....
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ever since Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man (1934) introduced detective Nick Charles and his wife, Nora, readers have craved crime tales where the snappy romantic repartee sets off more sparks than the gunshots. Kenner's festive, fast-talking romantic mystery (Undercover Lovers, etc.) satisfies that craving. Determined to settle down before her rapidly approaching 30th birthday, impoverished artist Jacey Wilder, having given up collage-creation for a career in accounting, hires private investigator/crime writer Dave Anderson (who is, by his own admission, not the best but definitely the cheapest). Jacey wants Dave to find her missing boyfriend, Albert Alcott, a lawyer she picked up at a fancy hotel four months earlier and then ditched after mistaking him for a serial killer. Unbeknownst to Jacey, Albert and a few mob thugs are looking for her and the cache of stolen jewels hidden in her car. The protagonists' sexy sparring infuses the narrative with wit and energy, as do their brushes with danger. Though Dave is more a tough-talking Mike Hammer type detective than a suave Charles, Kenner's flair for dialogue and eccentric characterizations could well make the wisecracking hunk and his deceptively ditsy client the Nick and Nora of the new millennium.
