Author: Diane Kelly
Publication Date: June 4, 2013
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks
Series: Death & Taxes # 5
It’s bad enough that Tara has to go on trial
against the mortgage-frauding “Tennis Racketeers” who cheated banks and
homeowners out of millions in between doubles matches. Now she has to go
undercover—in a strip club—to strip the sleazeball owner of his indeed illegal
livelihood. At least she’s working as a bookkeeper, not a pole dancer. And who
needs tips when her undercover crush, Special Agent Nick, is the club’s
bodyguard?
With so many hot bodies on display, Tara agrees to join her boss, Lu “the Lobo”
Lobozinski, in her daily workouts at the Y. Lu’s on a health kick after
recovering from cancer, and she’s pulled her leotards, tights, and hot-pink leg
warmers out of mothballs. Which is okay with Tara. If she hopes to put Mr.
Geils behind bars, grab the tennis boys by the balls, and lock lips with the
unsuspecting Nick, she needs to be in the best shape of her life…
Nothing like a baseball bat to the head to ruin
a girl’s faith in herself.
Yep, I’d recently let my guard down, assumed a
mild-mannered granny posed no threat to me. Unfortunately, when I informed the
woman she’d violated federal law by unwittingly helping terrorists funnel money
overseas, she’d panicked. Even more unfortunately, an official major league
baseball bat signed by none other than Texas Ranger Josh Hamilton had been in
close reach behind the counter of her pawnshop. She’d grabbed the bat, swung
for the seats, and – Crack! Lights
out for me.
The place gave me the total creeps. “Let’s get
out of here.” Before the devil steals our
souls.
Eddie
glanced over at me. “Aren’t you a Baptist?” “Yeah,” I said, “but it can’t hurt.”
Tara Holloway and I are best friends. I am
serious. If she were a real character, we would be the best of friends. Diane
Kelly is a phenomenal writer and I agree with many other reviews I have read in
saying that this is the best book in the series yet. Diane writes this
fast-paced lifestyle and these characters that all feel real. I have never been
so interested in tax evasion before this series! The only thing that I always hate
about her books is that I am left wanting more, and in this case I am stuck
waiting until October of this year for the next book in this series. Again,
this book is filled with filthy bad guys trying to evade taxes, and a spunky
Tara Holloway who is right on their trail.
Diane Kelly can put readers in some pretty
unpredictable, filthy scenarios full of drugs, strippers, prostitutes, you name
it and while all this is going on I am loving every minute of it. Diane really
knows how to draw readers into a scene. I always know what is going on and it’s
almost as if I am a tiny camera sitting on Tara’s shoulder. Diane makes readers
a part of the story and really allows them to connect with other characters in the
same way that Tara does. She gives them each crazy, funny, quirky personalities
in order to make them stand out.
These books just keep getting better and better.
I swear I do not know how she does it! Diane Kelly is one of my favorite
authors because of her Tara Holloway series. Tara becomes more of a pistol with
each book, and to be honest I will so sad to ever see this story end. Her sex
scenes are steamy, her action scenes have me on the edge of my seat, and the
moments when you think you know for sure what is going to happen next she comes
in and sets off fireworks!
***A copy of this book was provided to me by the
publishers at St. Martin’s Paperbacks in exchange for my honest review***
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