Title: Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteries Box set (3
Books)
Author: Jamie Lee Scott
Review:
Let Us
Prey - book 1
Mimi
Capurro former Secret Service agent is trying to put what is left of her life
back together after her husband of one year suddenly died. She opens up the Gotcha Detective
Agency. Her friend computer forensics
partner, Charles Parks, cares for
Mimi
but knows she is working through personal issues and helps her when he can.
Gotcha specializes in executive protection (bodyguards), and tailing cheating
spouses.
Nick
Christianson former San Francisco Homicide detective decided to move back to Salinas
CA to move past his former daemons and is now adjusting to the new police
department and a blast from the past.
Mimi
when she takes on an executive protection case for New York Times bestselling
author Lauren Silke she figured it would be an easy protection but when
Lauren’s assistant is murdered. Mimi finds herself working side by side with
her former college flame Nick. The only
question is will Mimi and Nick be able to solve this murder without killing
each other first?
The
murder scene in this book is not a cozy mystery if that is what you are looking
for.
Textual
Relations - book 2
Mimi
Capurro, owner of Gotcha Detective Agency, is breaking and entering into an alleged
predator’s home, Mimi and Charles find a murder victim on the floor in his
bedroom. When homicide detective Nick Christianson and his new partner, Piper
Mason, arrive on the scene Mimi has to find a way to work with Nick and Piper
with the green eyed monster hanger over her shoulder. When the teenage girl and
victim disappear Mimi, Nick and Charles race against the clock to find the
killer and hopefully find the girl in the process.
Death
of a Sales Rep - book 3
Mimi
and Charles take some time off from the detective agency to help Charles'
friend, Anthony DeLuca, sell his exclusive line of voodoo dolls at a trade show
in San Francisco. But as luck may have it, Mimi finds the body of a dead sales
rep. When Anthony is implicated in the suspicious death, Mimi decides to
investigate.
The
three books put together are only 519 pages so each story is barely 200 pages
but perfect for a beach read. Each book
moves the story forward from the romance between Nick and Mimi to the endless
victims Mimi comes across. The author doesn’t hold anyone back from developing
Mimi as a person discovering who she is as a Private Detective and what she
wants in her love life.
Jamie
Lee Scott creates vivid murder scenes that cause the reader to feel for Mimi
and everything she sees and feels. There is the right amount of humor and
romance to balance out the murders.
Each
book is a perfect murder mystery story with you guessing who the murder might
be. I have to admit I was pretty sure
who the murderer was in the first book but I also take pride in discovering who
the killer is before everyone else.
Out of
the three books I really enjoyed the second one because with children you forget
the world of technology they live in and the author makes sure you realize how
dangerous the technology is when it comes to our children and the sexual
predators who are searching for them. I like that Jamie Lee Scott flushed out
Charles character more and I found I really like him more than the first
book. Jamie Lee Scott also flushes out
all of her characters though each book and you find yourself caring for
everyone who works for Mimi.
Each
book could stand along because the author makes sure the reader is never lost
and wondering who everyone is and what they are doing in the books.
The series is well worth the buy and I plan on
reading her next books in the Gotcha series.
Thanks
Heidi for this review
Published: Published January 1st 2013 by LBBCompany (Ryan Lee,Inc.)
ISBN: B00AW1K5SE
Page
Count: 515
Quick
Review: 4 out 5 stars –
Why I
Read this Title: I bought the Gotcha Detective books for .99 from Amazon
when I was looking for a good mystery one day.
Synopsis: Let Us Prey - book 1
Mimi Capurro is trying to put her life back together
after the sudden death of her husband. Using the skills she learned as a secret
service agent, she runs the Gotcha Detective Agency, along with her skilled computer
forensics partner Charles Parks. Gotcha specializes in executive protection
(bodyguards), and tailing cheating spouses.
Nick Christianson is running from the demons of his
past, and that has put him back in his old stomping grounds in Salinas, CA.
Nick has transferred from the San Francisco Homicide Division and is now
adjusting to this new police department.
Mimi never expects to run into her old college flame
Nick, when she takes on an executive protection case for New York Times
bestselling author Lauren Silke. But when Lauren’s assistant is murdered, the
homicide case, along with Mimi, land in Nick’s lap. Will Mimi and Nick be able
to solve this murder without killing each other first?
Textual Relations - book 2
Mimi Capurro, owner of Gotcha Detective Agency,
hasn’t seen her old college flame since they teamed up to find a killer several
months earlier. Now, after breaking and entering into an alleged predator’s
home, Mimi and Charles find a murder victim on the floor in his bedroom. When
homicide detective Nick Christianson and his new partner, Piper Mason, arrive
on the scene, this is not the way Mimi expected to see Nick again.
Even though it’s his job, Nick is loath to find the
killer. That is until a teenage girl with ties to the victim disappears. Now
Mimi, Nick and Charles race against the clock to find the killer and hopefully
find the girl in the process.
Death of a Sales Rep -Book 3
Mimi and Charles
take some time off from the detective agency to help Charles' friend, Anthony
DeLuca, sell his exclusive line of voodoo dolls at a trade show in San
Francisco. Mimi is less than thrilled to find out Charles has invited Nick
Christianson to come along.
But as luck may have it, Mimi finds the body of a
dead sales rep. When Anthony is implicated in the suspicious death, Mimi
investigates her way, and NIck goes off with his old partner at the SFPD to
investigate with them.
With so many viable suspects, who wanted this sales
rep dead?
Author
Information:
Jamie was born on the Central Coast of California, where she spent her
entire childhood entertaining. She wrote plays and charged admission to her
backyard stage so her friends and family could enjoy the performances. She
wrote her first novel at the age of 10, for her 5th grade class project. The
novel was called Cindy,
Busy with horses and school, Jamie rarely wrote
through her teens and twenties, she was living a life most dreamed of (well,
she dreamed of anyway), competing at barrel races, hanging out with cowboys,
and traveling in rodeo circles with her friends. Money was tight, but life was
good. Then Jamie met the man of her dreams. And low and behold he was not a
cowboy, but a farm boy. They married and he swept her away to her little piece
of heaven in Iowa. Well, then Iowa didn't turn out to be such heaven, Jamie
again turned to fiction. This time she wrote to relieve the stress of living so
far from her family, and from running a business with her husband. Funny how
she now found it cathartic to kill people, only on paper of course.
Before she finished her first full length novel,
Jamie was contracted to write the book, Hiking Iowa for Falcon publishing. In a
year, she hiked 75 trails in the state of Iowa and mapped the trails, landmarks
and distances. And this was before GPS. It was tough work for the measly
advance, but it was a writing credit. So now, Jamie writes the mystery series
featuring the Gotcha Detective Agency. Jamie also writes screenplays, and for
TV.
Before Jamie’s college professor submitted her case
study assignment to Physician and Sports Medicine for publication, she never
dreamed people actually got paid to write. Since then, she’s written a book,
Hiking Iowa, and numerous magazine articles for national magazines.
After spending two years as contributing writer for
Crafts Business Magazine, writing feature articles, she decided to delve into
the craft of fiction. She went from writing 2500 word articles for money, to
writing 80,000 words she hoped would sell.
Jamie has written three novels, Let Us Prey, the
soon to be released Death of a Sales Rep, and Give a Dog a Bone. She is
currently writing screenplays. She is co-founder of Scriptchat on Twitter
www.scriptchat.com & TWWriterChat www.tvwriterchat.com, and is the former
president of RWA’s screenwriting chapter, Script Scene.
She's an equestian, but not the hunter/jumper kind.
She rides barrel racing horses.
Jamie still lives in Iowa (though she visits
California as often as possible) with her husband, 2 dogs, 2 cats and 2 horses.
She writes with a few from her 6 acre farm.
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