Miss Fortune: An Allie Fortune MysterySara Mills
Moody Publishers (September 2008)
Moody Publishers (September 2008)
Allie Fortune is the only female private investigator in New York City in 1947. She has just been hired by a client who says she is being regularly followed by person’s unknown. The FBI is also working on the case because a legendary treasure is missing. Allie meets up with the FBI agent, Jack, and the investigation is on.
“Jack readjusted his hat, “I’d better be going. I’ll see you around, Fortune.”
“Jack readjusted his hat, “I’d better be going. I’ll see you around, Fortune.”
I nodded, not caring that his back was already to me.
He’d laid the envelope in the center of my desk, on top of the files I’d been working on, I reached out a shaking hand to pick it up, but couldn’t bring myself to touch it. Instead, I brought my hand back and just stared.”
I really wanted to like this novel. I almost stopped after giving it my obligatory fifty page trial run. Set in one of my favorite time periods and reminiscent of an old, classic black and white movie, it had everything going for it in my mind. Unfortunately, I was never drawn to the characters and the short, curt, almost Raymond Chandler like writing, interspersed with jolting flashbacks, didn’t work for me.
He’d laid the envelope in the center of my desk, on top of the files I’d been working on, I reached out a shaking hand to pick it up, but couldn’t bring myself to touch it. Instead, I brought my hand back and just stared.”
I really wanted to like this novel. I almost stopped after giving it my obligatory fifty page trial run. Set in one of my favorite time periods and reminiscent of an old, classic black and white movie, it had everything going for it in my mind. Unfortunately, I was never drawn to the characters and the short, curt, almost Raymond Chandler like writing, interspersed with jolting flashbacks, didn’t work for me.
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