Down for the Count

Delilah West #6

by Maxine O'Callaghan

Delilah West is in love, and to her that's scarier than any gunman. When a simple shopping trip to the mall turns into a bloodbath - leaving Delilah with a secret she can hardly bear to keep - she turns to Erik Lundstrom, her handsome millionaire boyfriend, for the comfort she needs. But both Erik's prickly eighteen-year-old daughter, Nicki, and Delilah's own fear keep her from getting as close to Erik as he would like. To add to her anxiety, Brian Hall, a troubled boy she saved that horrible day at the mall, shows up at her office hoping that Delilah can find his father. The case seems simple enough, and Delilah needs something to take her mind off of Erik. Soon the search begins to look hopeless, and it becomes so important to Erik for the two women in his life to get along that Delilah and Nicki agree to tolerate each other for an afternoon - with terrifying consequences. Delilah West is generally a lucky woman, but that luck just might be running out.

252 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1997

About the author

Received the Shamus Award, "The Eye" (Lifetime achievment award) in 1999.

Aka Marissa Owens

Reviews

[Michael Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

Will not look for more in the old give away shelf. Another character with low self-esteem who double - triple over thinks ever move. She whines and fears commitment and just rubs the reader the wrong way.

[Jack Heath]

Synopsis: when a shopping trip becomes a bloodbath, Delilah turns to her millionaire boyfriend for comfort. A boy from the mall asks for help.

[George · Rating 4 out of 5]

#6 in the Los Angeles PI Delilah West mystery series. When the 19 year old daughter of Delilah's wealth boyfriend, Erik Lundstrom, is kidnapped when she and the daughter were on their way to lunch, everything that could wrong does. The resulting investigation brings stress to her relationship with Eric compounded by the private investigator who works for him leaving Delilah with the option of finding Nicki herself. It is a fast moving story.

[Daisyaday · Rating 3 out of 5]

sharp mystery,but the very last sentence left it hanging

[Fern Pasholk]

Not the best.