Hot stuff

Format:

Book (regular print)

Title:

Hot stuff

Author:

Evanovich, Janet.

ISBN:

9780312941468

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

281 pages ; 17 cm

Series title(s):

Cate Madigan series.

Summary:

Cate Madigan isn't asking for trouble. All she wants is peace and quiet and a nice place to live where she saves her money from tending bar in a lively Boston pub. Okay, so what if her roommate is a cross-dressing lounge singer named Marty Longfellow? In exchange for cheap rent, all she has to do is take care of his plants and collect his mail when he's out of town. And then ... Marty disappears.

Subject(s):

Redheads -- Fiction.

Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.

Massachusetts -- Boston.

Genre:

Chick lit.

Humorous fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery stories.

Added Author:

Banks, Leanne.

Electronic Access:

http://www.evanovich.com

Holds:

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Summary

Dear Reader,

If you like hot men, hot action and hot attraction you're going to love this HOT new series! HOT STUFF introduces Cate Madigan, a Boston native from a large and crazy Irish family. Cate has far too much going on to get involved in extracurricular activities, like men and marriage. She spends all day in school, earning her teaching degree, and all night working as a bartender in Boston's South End. Ex-cop Kellen McBride has decided to make Cate's bar his nightly haunt. He likes Cate's sassy Irish spirit and wild red hair. He also has an ulterior motive for getting close to her. Cate has sworn off all things romantic, but when she comes home to a ransacked apartment, a roommate who has flown the coop, and a sleeping bullmastiff named Beast, Cate has no choice but to ask Kellen for help. Can Kate resist the charming Kellen McBride while keeping herself out of danger? Or will Kellen turn up the heat on Cate and everything in her life?

We know you'll have a blast with HOT STUFF !

Janet Evanovich & Leanne Banks

Author Notes

Janet Evanovich was born on April 22, 1943 in South River, New Jersey. She received a bachelor's degree in art from Douglas College, which is part of Rutgers University. She was working as a secretary for a temporary employment agency when she sold her first romance novel, Hero at Large, which was published in 1987 under the pseudonym Steffie Hall. She went on to write 12 romances in five years using her real name before beginning to write mysteries. Her first mystery novel, One for the Money, became the first book in the Stephanie Plum series. She is also the author of the Alex Barnaby series, A Between-the-Numbers Novel series, Lizzy and Diesel series, Full series written with Charlotte Hughes, the Fox and O'Hare series written with Lee Goldberg, and the Knight and Moon series written with Phoef Sutton.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Evanovich fans will be delighted with this new novel, co-written with relative up-and-comer Banks. Working her formula to its fullest, Evanovich conjures the large, close, gently eccentric Madigan family that 26-year-old college student Cate calls her own. An aspiring teacher, Cate studies by day and bartends by night, living in the arty South End of Boston with an often-absent drag queen named Marty (Marta) Longfellow. The perfect living arrangement-"a big strong roommate...not interested in women," plenty of alone time and low rent-turns wholly suspicious when Marty disappears, leaving behind a lovable bullmastiff. Cate?s sexy love interest, barroom regular Kellen McBride, is an "independent recovery agent" who believes that Marty is responsible for a string of one-of-a-kind jewelry heists; after Marty?s place gets tossed, Cate teams up with him to track down the missing Marty before whoever?s after him comes after her. Like other Evanovich novels, there?s a madcap race to the finish while mysteries are solved and hearts are stolen; also like other Evanovich novels, it makes a highly satisfying read. (Apr.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal Review

Cate Madigan finds herself in hot water when her transvestite roommate Marty goes missing. As usual in Evanovich's books, the heroine is then the focus of unwanted attention by a number of thugs looking for her roommate; her apartment gets tossed, and people get threatened. Cate has bigger problems than trying to figure out if Marty is really dead, as is being reported by the locals. She has to cope with the persistent affections of ex-cop Kellen McBride. There are some laughs to be had, and, sharing this gig with romance author Banks, Evanovich knows how to turn up the steam; Lorelei King is especially good at voicing her heroines and heroes. Unfortunately, Patrick Pugg, who is obsessively stalking Cate, is a very irritating character; continually referring to himself in the third person, Patrick is a rare misfire. This is one of Evanovich's slightest books and should therefore be purchased only by those libraries that see a demand for anything she writes.--B. Allison Gray, Palmdale City Lib., CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.