The Brush-Off
A Hair-raising Mystery
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Make an appointment for intrigue at Reyn Marten Sawyer's hair salon! Outrageous, flirtatious, and as colorful as a magenta mohawk, Reyn tracks twisted crimes, untangles tight knots, and never, ever leaves loose ends.
Someone clearly meant business when they targeted San Antonio's hair salon king, Ricardo, who was fatally stabbed with a one-of-a-kind weapon: a sharp plastic hair pick. Reyn had loaned Ricardo the tool -- and now she's not only mourning her friend and mentor's murder: she's also a suspect. And in the eyes of sexy detective Jackson Scythe, she's one alluring stylist who should drop her insistent sleuthing like a hot roller. But Reyn's wound a little too tight to stay out of the thick of things, including teasing and taming the stubbornly single Scythe while taking short cuts to catch a killer -- and uncovering the past of a dead man, whose secrets will make Reyn's hair curl....
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Sassy hair stylist Reyn Sawyer makes a hilarious debut in this zany mystery, the first in a promising series from Bradley. When Reyn's friend and mentor, Ricardo, beauty salon mogul of San Antonio, is murdered with the sharp end of one of Reyn's styling brushes, Reyn shoots to the top of handsome detective Jackson Scythe's suspect list. More to avenge Ricardo's killer than to exonerate herself, Reyn decides to do some snooping on her own. From drag queens to aging socialites, Reyn learns that no one is above suspicion as she and best friend/sleuthing partner Trudy Trujillo look for clues at Ricardo's old haunts not an easy job with Scythe dogging their every step. In their quest to find Ricardo's killer, the ditzy pair raid a private entertainment club, threaten a psychic, break into the victim's house and accuse one of San Antonio's most prominent women of having Ricardo's illegitimate child. Although the action can be cartoonish at times, such as when Reyn accidentally overuses some hair products on a client, the dialogue is snappy and the characters are likable. Fans of cozies, screwball comedies and Sarah Strohmeyer's Bubbles Yablonsky mystery series will savor this fun, albeit predictable, ride.
