3.5 Stars
Inviting Trouble is a cheeky short story of just 69 pages in which Trixie is determined to find where the blame lay for the murder of her friend, Hazel. Caught red handed rifling through papers at the local small town police station, she turns up daily, with cake, as an unpaid, unconventional detective.
Once Trixie starts her questioning of the men around Hazel's life, the sex and eroticism is explicit and plentiful. Trixie is a bubbly audacious character and gets her comeuppance when both a wife and fiance of men she has been 'questioning' don't take particularly well to her probing methods.
An unexpected twist at the end rounds off the murder story, with enough 'fizz' to keep you entertained.