Book Review: Full Tilt

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Full Tilt     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Janet Evanovich , Charlotte Hughes
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Romance
Series: Full # 2
St. Martin’s, Feb 2003, $7.99, 352 pp.

Wealthy inventor Max Holt visits his sister DeeDee and her husband Frankie "the Assassin" Fontana in Beaumont, South Carolina because his sibling asked for his help. Frankie has tossed his hat in the ring to run for mayor. While in town, Max plans to investigate the Beaumont Gazette, in which he is a silent partner. However, in reality he only wants to conduct a hands-on interview of his partner Jamie Swift, fiancee to some local yokel.

Frankie gives a speech about reducing the bureaucracy and to determine what happened to missing tax money. The talk gives Frankie plenty of supporters and a real shot at winning the election. However, he alienates someone because now Frankie and his brother-in-law are targets of a hired assassin with Jamie along claiming she only wants the story.

FULL TILT is a wild way out amateur sleuth investigative tale that hooks readers from the moment Muffin (think of a female Kit from Knight Rider) provides Max a picture of Jamie. The story line is played for fun and in many ways satirizes the Plum books. Max and Jamie chaperoned by Muffin make a delightful duo investigating murder attempts and the return of dizzy DeeDee (see FULL HOUSE) leaves the audience with an uproarious amusing novel.

Harriet Klausner

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