Full Service Blonde
Published on 21. December 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
306 pages
978-1-945501-00-5 (ISBN)
Description
A working girl is found dead in the desert. Can a calendar girl uncover the truth?
In this award-winning prequel to GETTING OFF ON FRANK SINATRA, it's Christmastime in Sin City.
Aspiring journalist Copper Black meets Victoria McKimber, an outspoken prostitute at one of Nevada's legal brothels. She's offered Copper the exclusive right to tell her story. Not only will the Las Vegas Light's "calendar girl" get a byline, but she can also impress her boyfriend and parents when they arrive for the holidays.
Copper is busy with work, Christmas shopping, and fantasizing about a whole week with her long-distance boyfriend. She's also helping her brother, a civic-minded pastor who is spearheading plans for a new center to serve the homeless. Things are hectic but under control when shocking news breaks. Victoria McKimber has turned up dead.
As she investigates the violent death, Copper evades enemies, juggles boyfriend, work, and family, and races against time to save her brother from a sinister plot. Unless she can expose the truth about Victoria McKimber, somebody just might get away with murder.
In this award-winning prequel to GETTING OFF ON FRANK SINATRA, it's Christmastime in Sin City.
Aspiring journalist Copper Black meets Victoria McKimber, an outspoken prostitute at one of Nevada's legal brothels. She's offered Copper the exclusive right to tell her story. Not only will the Las Vegas Light's "calendar girl" get a byline, but she can also impress her boyfriend and parents when they arrive for the holidays.
Copper is busy with work, Christmas shopping, and fantasizing about a whole week with her long-distance boyfriend. She's also helping her brother, a civic-minded pastor who is spearheading plans for a new center to serve the homeless. Things are hectic but under control when shocking news breaks. Victoria McKimber has turned up dead.
As she investigates the violent death, Copper evades enemies, juggles boyfriend, work, and family, and races against time to save her brother from a sinister plot. Unless she can expose the truth about Victoria McKimber, somebody just might get away with murder.
Reviews / Votes
""Full Service Blonde" is an original and riveting mystery by a master of the genre. An unfailingly entertaining read replete with unexpected and narrative driven twists and turns, "Full Service Blonde" is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to community library Mystery/Suspense collections"--Midwest Book Review"Readers will enjoy smart, sassy Copper as she handles family and professional crises with aplomb" -- Publisher's Weekly
"Full Service Blonde is a breezy, entertaining mystery dealing with prostitutes, thieving cats, and the bustling Vegas strip. It is a fantastic read-light on mystery, heavy on romance and drama, it would make for a perfect poolside escape, or a work to devour on a flight to Vegas." -- John M. Murray, Foreword Reviews
"After Victoria's body in found in the desert, Copper is determined to solve the murder of a woman she had started to admire... An entertaining mystery"--Lesa Holstine Library Journal
"I loved this fast-paced murder mystery. Full of eccentric characters and twists in the storyline, Full Service Blonde provides the reader with a great escape to Las Vegas, without having to get off the couch. I also recommend this book for a reader's group. It will definitely stimulate some lively conversations!"-Paige Lovitt,Reader Views
"Full Service Blonde is not only an entertaining mystery, it is a Las Vegas buffet of situations that prove that what happens in Vegas can happen anywhere...It's first and foremost a superb story with a likeable and believable cast of characters" --Ruth Mormon RoadTrip America
"Megan Edwards takes us through a Las Vegas both ordinary and odd. Her narrator's mix of humor and innocence plays nicely against the city's colorful grit as she encounters a parade of unsavory -- yet complicated -- characters in an effort to unearth the details of a murder. Told with warmth and wit, and ripe with suspense, this book is a delightful read"-- Heather Skyler, author of the novels The Perfect Age and Vegas Girls
"I was sucked in by Copper and the story. This book was engrossing and nuanced and surprising. The characters are well developed, their interactions are realistic and flawed (just like real people) and the atmosphere is captivating. I didn't want to put the book down- like all the best books I had to know what happened, and what happens next. I will certainly be keeping my eye out for more from Copper Black."-- Laura Gibbons, owner Red Hen Bookshop
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Language
English
Place of publication
Las Vegas
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 15 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-945501-00-5 (9781945501005)
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Megan Edwards is the award-winning author of FULL SERVICE BLONDE, GETTING OFF ON FRANK SINATRA, and STRINGS: A LOVE STORY. All three novels were first-place winners of Benjamin Franklin book awards in 2018. Edwards is also the author of ROADS FROM THE ASHES: AN ODYSSEY IN REAL LIFE ON THE VIRTUAL FRONTIER, a memoir of her five-year adventure living and working on the road during the dawn of the Internet. At home in Las Vegas, Nevada, where there's never a shortage of fascinating material and inspiration, Edwards is working on her next novel.