Knockout (A Holly Hands Cozy Mystery—Book 1)
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4.0 • 133 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Fans of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum and Jana DeLeon's Miss Fortune will find a new character to love in Holly Hands!
Holly Hands. 29. Single mom. Disgraced, former boxing pro. Repo woman.
Repossessing Lamborghinis and other exotic toys from criminals is second-hat for Holly.
But finding a dead body—and solving a murder—is not.
Luckily, Holly has Lucky by her side—a neglected pit bull she found on the wrong side of a job, who refuses to leave her side—and who, like her, has nowhere to go but up.
Together, maybe they can crawl their way out of the urban hell of their bad slice of Baltimore, where coming home at night is even more dangerous than going to work. Maybe Holly can manage to get her young daughter the medical treatment she desperately needs, and manage to get her out of her dangerous public school and into the private school of her dreams. Just maybe, she can fall in love with that private school Dad from the other side of town and start a whole new life.
Or maybe not.
Life has never been easy for Holly. And if the past few days—and the dead body in her trunk—are any indication—it’s about to get a whole lot worse.
KNOCKOUT (A HOLLY HANDS COZY MYSTERY) is book #1 in a riveting new cozy mystery series, a page-turning thriller that grabs you from page one and does not let go. Get ready to find yourself reading all night, bleary-eyed, and falling madly in love with a new character who will fight her way into your heart.
Book #2 (SUCKER PUNCH) and Book #3 (BELOW THE BELT) in the series are also available.
Customer Reviews
Slow sad start
Wasn’t hooked with the girl fighter until chapter 3. Good book, just gotta get through the beginning. That’s just me.
“Meh!”
The story definitely has some promise. There are some cringe inducing cliche moments like when Livie starts asking about a dad and a house though. When you just say, “well if those lines weren’t a last minute add…” The characters need some more depth and fleshing out as well. Right now “Frank” is probably the most 3D of the lot.
With regard to the audio recording, it was not great. I’ve definitely heard worse and had to stop listening to a book on occasion because of it. You won’t necessarily stop listening on this book, but the reader is no Lorelei King. Also the editors of the recording left a lot of errors and retakes in the reading. So, you know, kind of not impressed with the quality of the recording.
I do however very much like the potential of the series. And, I really do hope Ms Gold can up her game in the future because this could be such a fun series!