Author: Larissa Reinhart
Narrator: Joan Dukore
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Publisher: 1969
Released: May 28, 2020
Genre: Mystery; Amateur Detective
She played a detective on TV, but now that her life depends on it, can Maizie Albright play a detective for real?
For fans of romantic comedy mysteries like Meg Cabot's Size 12 Is Not Fat and Stephanie Bond's Body Movers, The Wall Street Journal best-selling author Larissa Reinhart brings her listeners the first in the Maizie Albright Star Detective series, Hot Mystery Reviews’ "Top 10 Mysteries for Book Clubs".
”Child star and hilarious hot mess Maizie Albright trades Hollywood for the backwoods of Georgia and pure delight ensues. Maizie's my new favorite escape from reality.” (Gretchen Archer, USA Today best-selling author of the Davis Way Crime Caper series)
Three Teen Choice Awards, one Emmy nomination, and several Maxim covers later, Maizie Albright was an ex-teen star, stuck in reality show hell, and standing before a California judge. She has one chance for a new life: return home to Black Pine, Georgia, and get a job that has nothing to do with show business. So why not become a private detective - the person she played during the happiest days of her life?
Maybe because...
First: She's got 10 days to get and keep the job.
Second: She has to convince the only private investigator in town to hire her.
Third: She lost the client's wife on the first day. (And the woman may be dead…)
Fourth: She just might be falling in love with her new boss. And she just might have lost him his business.
But what has she got to lose, other than imprisonment, her dignity, and possibly, her life?
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"Sassy, sexy, and fun, 15 Minutes is hours of enjoyment." (Phoebe Fox, author of the Breakup Doctor series)
My Review:
4 Out Of 5 Stars
Genre: Audiobook, Mystery, Suspense--
Overall, 15 Minutes was cute and fun, the perfect fluffy mystery. I would love to read the rest of the series for many reasons- but mainly to see if Maizie and Nash ever get together! This had the Stephanie Plum feel to it, with the main character getting into many terrible, zany situations with almost no fault of her own, yet somehow Maizie can solve the mystery.
I struggled a little with Maizie and her poor choices, she is very naive at times and keeps needing a keeper to survive the day, as well as being so in the public eye and outgoing for a private investigator. It is like she is still playing a role and inadvertently falls into good information through no actual skill. I did not really connect to her, especially at the start of the book, but she became more real and fleshed as the story progressed (even though she was still at times more playing a role than being a person).
I enjoyed the over the top small town people with all the personality I could have hoped for in random side characters. And of course I loved broody Nash, Maizie's hysterical half sister Remy, and Maizies's new friends Tiffany and Rhonda. The mystery element was interesting enough, but I loved the character dynamics best.
I listened to the audiobook and the narrator did a good job with personality for Maizie as well as with different voices for the side characters. My one complaint was I was never sure if Maizie was thinking something or saying something, there was never any differentiation in tone or anything so I was moderately confused at times by the conversations.
I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Larissa Reinhart. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.
The Wall Street Journal bestselling author Larissa Reinhart writes the award-winning Cherry Tucker Mystery, Maizie Albright Star Detective, and Finley Goodhart Crime Caper series. She loves to tell funny stories about women, looking for love (and sometimes dead bodies) in all the wrong places.
Larissa, her family, and Cairn Terrier, Biscuit, lived in Nagoya, Japan, but have returned to Peachtree City, Georgia. You can see them on HGTV's House Hunters International "Living for the Weekend in Nagoya" episode. Larissa loves books, food, and traveling with her family. You can often see her adventures on Instagram (and her little dog, too).
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Born in Honolulu, HI, Joan DuKore began her performing career as a ballet dancer, and attended Virginia School of the Arts to continue her education. Her hobby of magic later became her profession, and she continues to perform in Las Vegas and around the world. Her love of reading eventually led to voice acting. She has produced over 30 audiobooks in numerous genres such as thrillers, romances, memoirs, mysteries and fantasies. She loves locking herself in her booth and living in the worlds that authors create.
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Thanks so much for the review & hosting! I'm so pleased you enjoyed it! The next in series audio will be out soon. :)
ReplyDeleteI am so looking forward to it!
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