Fast Women by Jennifer Crusie

Title : Fast Women
Author : Jennifer Crusie
Genre : Contemporary Romance
Pages : 436
Publish Date : April 15, 2002
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks 
Started Reading : March 02, 2011
Completed Reading : March 12, 2011
Book Rating : 3/5

Nell Dysart is living a too small life in a too small apartment with no visible evidence of a reason to get up in the morning. Weighed down by an inexplicable divorce and a loss of appetite for everything, Nell is frozen in place, and she’s not alone: Her two closest friends and sisters-in-law are as stuck as she is. Suze is married to a controlling lawyer who keeps her housebound while she perfects an almost zen-like denial, and Margie has been stuck in foggy limbo since her husband disappeared seven years before with a lot of money that didn’t belong to him. Good thing Nell’s new job is with a down-and-out detective agency that has huge potential and a boss who looks easy to manage.

Gabe McKenna isn’t doing too well, either. His detective agency is wasting time on a blackmail case, his partner Riley has decided he hates watching cheating spouses for money, and his ex-wife has just dumped him . . . again. Good thing his new secretary looks efficient, boring, and biddable.

But soon Nell and Gabe are squaring off over embezzlement, business cards, bribery, interior decoration, vandalism, dachshund-napping, blackmail, and unprofessional sex, all of which turn out to be the least of their problems. Because shortly after that, somebody starts killing people. And shortly after that, they start falling in love.

*****

 

No mistaking the writing.. this is from Jennifer Crusie. As always, I enjoyed the quick wit and the funny lines. That the story is not just about the main characters but we also get to know the other characters - Riley, Suze, Chloe, Lu and Jas. One thing though is that for me, I think there are too many things happening or there had been a lot of characters to take note of that I sometimes got lost in the story. LOL...