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Lavender's Blue

By: Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer
Narrated by: Cris Dukehart, Eric G. Dove
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Summary

From the NY Times Bestselling duo that wrote Agnes and the Hitman, the first book in the Liz Danger series.

Liz Danger has returned home after fifteen years to deliver a giant teddy bear for her mother’s birthday (color: Guilt Red) when a cop with a great ass picks her up for speeding, fixes the missing lug nuts on her back wheel, pulls her out of a ditch, doesn’t give her a ticket, and helps her avoid her family. This is a man with real potential. The rest of the day goes downhill, starting with her finding out that the only man she’s ever loved is getting married to Lavender Blue, the most beautiful woman in southern Ohio. Really, the best thing in her day is that cop with the lug nuts.

Vince Cooper still isn't sure about being a cop in Burney, Ohio, a place he just moved to six months ago, since Burney is full of some fairly odd people spaced between long stretches of boredom. Still, considering the dangerous, difficult life he had before Burney as an Army Ranger and New York City cop, boredom is good. Then he picks up Liz Danger for speeding and life gets a lot more interesting. And when he picks her up again in the local bar the next night, he starts to realize that “interesting” doesn’t begin to describe what’s going to happen to him if he pulls Liz into his arms and his life.

As Liz navigates her dysfunctional family, her flamboyant boss phoning in from Chicago, her still-interested ex, her bridesmaid dress from hell, a dachshund with issues, a disaster of a wedding, assault, murder, and three hundred and ninety-three teddy bears, Vince shows up to get her through, even though he knows that the real peril for him in Burney is the one who came with her own warning label, Liz Danger.

LAVENDER’S BLUE: Would it kill you to go home and see your mother?

©2023 Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer. (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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“Narrators Cris Dukehart and Eric G. Dove combine their talents to tell the tale of ghostwriter Liz Danger's return to her small hometown of Burney, Ohio.… Dukehart voices Liz in a steady, no-nonsense tone, perfectly matching her matter-of-fact personality. Dove brings Vince to life with a deeply masculine performance. Burney has a large cast of characters, and both narrators aptly capture their unique qualities.“AudioFile Magazine

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Fun listen

I listened to this through KU.

It’s a fun listen, well written, great snappy dialogue, quirky characters, a mystery to solve and a neurotic dachshund - what’s not to love?

I’ve read most of JCs books and loved them so was pleased that she had released another (co-written) after an age since her last release. It didn’t disappoint.

Liz Danger rolls into town after 15 years away from her hometown where she seems to have a reputation as a perennial trouble maker. She ends up stuck there until her car is repaired, and then the town and the townsfolk seem to conspire to keep her there. Vince is ex military, local cop, all round good guy and they strike up a situationship. Things happen, there’s death, infidelity, dodgy politicians, pathetic ex-boyfriends, loving and hating family, a wedding, an interfering client, and a neurotic dachshund. It’s all going on. It’s very well written, the dialogue between the characters is fun and fast and there’s even a bit of spice (although it’s probably only deserves 🔥 on the sexometer). The mystery is a little obvious (well the one solved in this book in any case -think there’s much more to come in the ongoing mystery), so budding Sherlock Holmes’s will be disappointed, but with this one it’s more about the journey.

The female narrator was fabulous. The male narrator did a decent job, but his voice just isn’t right, he sounds too old, and it isn’t deep enough, but that’s about miscasting not necessarily about his performance which is fine.

It’s definitely worth a listen and credit.

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