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Whole Lotta Trouble
One Woman is Furious
Tallie Blankenship is a small town girl out to make her mark onManhattan's publishing scene, even at the expense of a personal life. She's thrilled to be working with a high-profile mystery writer, until sleazy superagent Jerry Key threatens to yank the project unless she sleeps with him ...
One Woman is Scorned
Felicia Redmon is an accomplished editor with the world at her beautiful feet. But behind closed doors, her former lover, Jerry Key, is making her life miserable. After she receives a taunting nude photo of herself at her office, Felicia becomes desperate ...
One Woman is Ruthless
Jané Glass is an e-book editor with an identity crisis and an attitude. When she discovers Jerry Key stole material from one of her authors, she sees red ...
And One Man is Dead
The women's plot to humiliate the bad-boy agent goes off without a glitch ... until they discover the next morning that Jerry is dead, and not of humiliation. Toss in a missing manuscript worth millions, a sexy cop, and a bike messenger delivering desire, and the women suddenly realize that when it comes to friendship, flirtation, and felony, they're in a "Whole Lotta Trouble"!
Tallie Blankenship is a small town girl out to make her mark onManhattan's publishing scene, even at the expense of a personal life. She's thrilled to be working with a high-profile mystery writer, until sleazy superagent Jerry Key threatens to yank the project unless she sleeps with him ...
One Woman is Scorned
Felicia Redmon is an accomplished editor with the world at her beautiful feet. But behind closed doors, her former lover, Jerry Key, is making her life miserable. After she receives a taunting nude photo of herself at her office, Felicia becomes desperate ...
One Woman is Ruthless
Jané Glass is an e-book editor with an identity crisis and an attitude. When she discovers Jerry Key stole material from one of her authors, she sees red ...
And One Man is Dead
The women's plot to humiliate the bad-boy agent goes off without a glitch ... until they discover the next morning that Jerry is dead, and not of humiliation. Toss in a missing manuscript worth millions, a sexy cop, and a bike messenger delivering desire, and the women suddenly realize that when it comes to friendship, flirtation, and felony, they're in a "Whole Lotta Trouble"!
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 2004
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About the author
Stephanie Bond
265 books1,784 followersUSA TODAY bestselling author Stephanie Bond was seven years deep into a systems engineering career and pursuing an MBA at night when an instructor remarked that she had a flair for writing and suggested that she submit to academic journals. But Stephanie, a voracious reader, was only interested in writing fiction–more specifically, romantic fiction.
Upon completing her master’s degree and with no formal training in writing (her undergraduate degree is in computer programming), she started writing a romance novel in her spare time. Two years later in 1995 she sold her first manuscript, a romantic comedy, to Harlequin Books.
In 1997, with ten sales under her belt to two publishers, Stephanie left her corporate job to write women’s romantic fiction full-time. In 2011,
Stephanie launched a self-publishing business. Since that time, she has sold more than 1 million copies of her own books. To-date, Stephanie has published over 70 novels and has over 6 million copies of her work in worldwide distribution in numerous languages and formats.
Upon completing her master’s degree and with no formal training in writing (her undergraduate degree is in computer programming), she started writing a romance novel in her spare time. Two years later in 1995 she sold her first manuscript, a romantic comedy, to Harlequin Books.
In 1997, with ten sales under her belt to two publishers, Stephanie left her corporate job to write women’s romantic fiction full-time. In 2011,
Stephanie launched a self-publishing business. Since that time, she has sold more than 1 million copies of her own books. To-date, Stephanie has published over 70 novels and has over 6 million copies of her work in worldwide distribution in numerous languages and formats.
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May 30, 2020
Stephanie Bond is one of my favorite authors. This book was my first stand-alone by her and I really enjoyed it.
November 9, 2018
Quick and fun, but not Bond's best.
February 26, 2017
The beginning seamed familiar, but ended not to be something I had already read. It was fun and enjoyable.
October 8, 2012
The copy I got was billed as a "humorous romantic mystery," which is a little deceptive - it's not a funny novel, despite some clever and witty moments.
It is, however, a good novel! If you're looking for a cast of engaging characters in a slightly sexy murder mystery, you've found a good read.
The characters were a bit cookie-cutter - there's the small-town transplant vehemently opposed to domesticity and her best friend, the born elite Manhattan girl who has a secret Martha Stewart side - but they were well-developed with plenty of quirks and personality that made them quite enjoyable.
As a book editor myself, I found myself smiling a lot at some of the job description portions, and particularly the fights over editorial decisions and the continual reading. The book is a little anachronistic when you're reading today - smartphones would play a much bigger part today! - but it's enjoyable nonetheless, and the technology differences aren't distracting.
The whole thing veers into a really farfetched solution at the end, which is unfortunate; I could've come up with several more believable, satisfying endings based on the breadcrumbs that had been dropped. As a result, it felt a little like the old "hey, look, this character you've never heard of before dunnit!" trope. And yet, as a fun little fluff mystery-killer read, it was just what the doctor ordered.
It is, however, a good novel! If you're looking for a cast of engaging characters in a slightly sexy murder mystery, you've found a good read.
The characters were a bit cookie-cutter - there's the small-town transplant vehemently opposed to domesticity and her best friend, the born elite Manhattan girl who has a secret Martha Stewart side - but they were well-developed with plenty of quirks and personality that made them quite enjoyable.
As a book editor myself, I found myself smiling a lot at some of the job description portions, and particularly the fights over editorial decisions and the continual reading. The book is a little anachronistic when you're reading today - smartphones would play a much bigger part today! - but it's enjoyable nonetheless, and the technology differences aren't distracting.
The whole thing veers into a really farfetched solution at the end, which is unfortunate; I could've come up with several more believable, satisfying endings based on the breadcrumbs that had been dropped. As a result, it felt a little like the old "hey, look, this character you've never heard of before dunnit!" trope. And yet, as a fun little fluff mystery-killer read, it was just what the doctor ordered.
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October 27, 2017hard to give a rating to this one. fluff but enjoyable fluff. I guess you could say it's a great beach read and a fun look back on the simpler times (2004) before smartphones. characters were mostly likeable and it's soothingly formulaic.
April 1, 2013
Easy reading!
October 24, 2019
A whole lot of fun I enjoy all your books and am looking for my next Stephanie Bond read. Keep up the great job. You enrich the world.
A whole lot of fun. I enjoy all your books and am looking forward to my next Stephanie Bond read. Keep up the great job. You enrich the world. Thanks
A whole lot of fun. I enjoy all your books and am looking forward to my next Stephanie Bond read. Keep up the great job. You enrich the world. Thanks
March 24, 2023
Fun, lightweight romance with a mystery. I read this after finishing a book that was a heavy topic. It was a perfect book to cleanse my mind with. The characters were young women each with a plan on how they wanted to live there lives which each had upended by a mystery and a romance. I laughed and puzzled over this story. I will look for more books by this author.
March 3, 2024
41/2 stars.This was a mystery or maybe a romantic suspense. I would not call this a rom- com or cozy mystery. This book started out with extreme stereotype characters that I thought were going to make me hate this book. But it turned into an enjoyable mystery, even if the conclusion was a little far fetched.
May 12, 2017
A fantastic read!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This was such a wonderful story, so many twists and turns. Loved the characters, the plot was interesting, and of course the ending great. On to another book by Stephanie Bond..
This was such a wonderful story, so many twists and turns. Loved the characters, the plot was interesting, and of course the ending great. On to another book by Stephanie Bond..
November 15, 2018
Okay story with characters I found a bit annoying. I kept waiting for the humor that the book touts as a selling point. I never found it, but a did find errors. The Kindle edition is plagued by errors so numerous they were distracting. How did this get by an editor?!
September 10, 2018
Great, fun read. Three women in trouble with men, with the law, with their jobs. People start popping up missing and dead. And the women are right in the middle of the mess. This is set around the book publishing world and I thought it all worked very well.
May 11, 2022
This book was AMAZING! The plot was fun, the characters were great, the romance was so sweet (Keith and Tallie own my heart), and the plot twist at the end was great. One of my favorite books I’ve read so far this year.
January 2, 2019
Whole Potts fun to read
May 12, 2019
Great Read in Stephanie Bond style
October 25, 2020
Three women deal with one unethical co-worker. Kinda fun. Based on publishing business.
July 25, 2022
Loved it.
Another great read from Stephanie Bond. A great enjoyable read with mystery, romance and a little sex thrown for good measure!
Another great read from Stephanie Bond. A great enjoyable read with mystery, romance and a little sex thrown for good measure!
March 2, 2024
As usual, made me laugh. Thank you.
May 8, 2024
Quick Beach read
June 7, 2020
An early book in the Stephanie Bond world. 3 women in the publishing world & 1 swarmy agent they exact revenge on. One part romance, one part murder, one part mystery. Who killed Jerry & why. Fast paced read. A few unanswered questions on Felicia but otherwise a good read
April 14, 2012
If you do like I am doing and reading Ms Bonds books back to back, you'll start noticing certain similarities between her books. Normally I would be livid about that, but Ms Bonds manages to make just different enough so that we can still feel like we are reading something fresh and new. A lot of romance/mystery writers stick with a formula that works for them and that is alright by me, since I know I will love the book.
These books are more about the mystery and the women's friendships than they are about the romance and I am really liking this change. (at least for me it is a change)
Set in the world of publishing and the early world of e-books, this will make for an interesting read for anyone who...well...reads! Two friends and one woman who may or may not be a friend are all taken advantage of by an agent, they decide to scheme and find a way to publicly humiliate him. Except that the humiliation turns to murder and implicates these three women.
The book deals with eccentric authors, randy authors and authors who plagiarize. While I usually have a good idea of who dun-it and why by the time I get to 75% of the book...this time the ending was somewhat silly and totally unexpected, yet introduced a cleaver twist.
WE do get our HEA's for at least one and perhaps two of the women, The characters are likeable (at least the one's we are supposed to like) and the characters we should dislike, well Ms Bond does a very good job of that. The sex is a bit descriptive but no in the realm of erotica and if encounters make you uncomfortable then it will be easy to scan right by the one scene.
I loved the background of New York City in January and the narrative was wonderful. Ms Bond really writes 'real' characters, ones that you swear you know already and barring that ones that you would love to get to know and be friends with.
A fun, light mystery, with lots of action and with something for everyone.
These books are more about the mystery and the women's friendships than they are about the romance and I am really liking this change. (at least for me it is a change)
Set in the world of publishing and the early world of e-books, this will make for an interesting read for anyone who...well...reads! Two friends and one woman who may or may not be a friend are all taken advantage of by an agent, they decide to scheme and find a way to publicly humiliate him. Except that the humiliation turns to murder and implicates these three women.
The book deals with eccentric authors, randy authors and authors who plagiarize. While I usually have a good idea of who dun-it and why by the time I get to 75% of the book...this time the ending was somewhat silly and totally unexpected, yet introduced a cleaver twist.
WE do get our HEA's for at least one and perhaps two of the women, The characters are likeable (at least the one's we are supposed to like) and the characters we should dislike, well Ms Bond does a very good job of that. The sex is a bit descriptive but no in the realm of erotica and if encounters make you uncomfortable then it will be easy to scan right by the one scene.
I loved the background of New York City in January and the narrative was wonderful. Ms Bond really writes 'real' characters, ones that you swear you know already and barring that ones that you would love to get to know and be friends with.
A fun, light mystery, with lots of action and with something for everyone.
June 25, 2012
I haven't read Stephanie Bond in a while and now that I'm into "Whole Lotta Trouble" I wonder why. She's a fun read. The humor is great and I love the friendship of two of the main characters. Also the subject: publishing! It's more cut throat than ever in this novel. Literally murderous. They's boy trouble, lots of it. Tons of suspects and all kinds of threads. I'm about 80% finished. Been wanting to finish it but just could not find time this weekend. I still don't know who did it. I have my suspicions but I'm usually wrong. That's why I'm the perfect mystery reader. I'll let you know if I guess correctly or not. I don't know about anybody else but I like it when I don't figure it out. Also I like authors who give away free books once in awhile and this one was offered. It's a good sales ploy: I can see me reading more of her now that she's back on my radar.
OK finished it:) Did not guess who did it. The whole ending was way OTT but it's comedy so I'm not going to complain (much). This is a light read and sometimes I need one of those.
OK finished it:) Did not guess who did it. The whole ending was way OTT but it's comedy so I'm not going to complain (much). This is a light read and sometimes I need one of those.
December 11, 2014
This was the second Stephanie Bond book that I have read. The first was Party Crashers. I have downloaded several of Bond’s books for free from the Kindle bookstore, so I read this one to knock another one off of the list. I was also looking for a humorous read. I had enjoyed the humor in Party Crashers, and I hoped for something similar here.
In this story, three women in the publishing industry feel slighted in different ways by a crass, male, book agent. He yanks an editing project from Tallie, he has broken Felicia’s heart, and he stole material from one of Jane’s authors. To get back at him, the ladies decide to play a trick on him, but, when he turns up dead following their trick, they become scared for their freedom.
Since this is marked as a humorous suspense story, I expected it to be funny. It was not very funny, per se, but it did keep my attention. The storyline an explanation of events ended pretty outrageously, but I never set out to take the book seriously anyway. It was not bad for a free read.
In this story, three women in the publishing industry feel slighted in different ways by a crass, male, book agent. He yanks an editing project from Tallie, he has broken Felicia’s heart, and he stole material from one of Jane’s authors. To get back at him, the ladies decide to play a trick on him, but, when he turns up dead following their trick, they become scared for their freedom.
Since this is marked as a humorous suspense story, I expected it to be funny. It was not very funny, per se, but it did keep my attention. The storyline an explanation of events ended pretty outrageously, but I never set out to take the book seriously anyway. It was not bad for a free read.
October 1, 2013
In Manhattan, Parkbench Publishing Editor Tallie Blankenship has spent nine years at the company that releases romance and mystery novels. When her boss Ron Springer tells her he has to leave town, he also assigns her with handling their top selling writer Gaylord Cooper. At the same time her nutty domestic engineer extraordinaire mom asks her to meet her best friend's son Keith Wages, who turns out to be a cop living in a house in Brooklyn.
I really enjoyed the storyline but there were quirks that just stood out to me. One is that Stephanie used the expression "she worked her mouth" at least 6-7 times throughout the book. That got redundant in my opinion.
I felt the book also dragged in places and was not nearly as funny as I had hoped it would be. If this had been the first Bond book I had read, I would not read more of her books but since it isn't, I will definitely try another one of her romantic suspense books since I totally fell in love with "In Deep Voodoo".
I really enjoyed the storyline but there were quirks that just stood out to me. One is that Stephanie used the expression "she worked her mouth" at least 6-7 times throughout the book. That got redundant in my opinion.
I felt the book also dragged in places and was not nearly as funny as I had hoped it would be. If this had been the first Bond book I had read, I would not read more of her books but since it isn't, I will definitely try another one of her romantic suspense books since I totally fell in love with "In Deep Voodoo".
November 9, 2013
This book had it all from thrills and chills to murder, mystery , and mayhem all slathered with action , adventure , and romance :) I really felt bad for Tallie and Felicia most of the time.... while they were both mildly successful editors their coworkers and clients made their lives more difficult at every turn.
With a little revenge plot cooked up by their fellow editor Jane ( they all interned together at Parkbench where Tallie still works) against a playboy agent they bore a grudge towards everying quickly spirls out of control... Let the hijincks begin !
This book was a fun engrossing read an Ireccomend ot to anyone looking for a good laugh and twisty turny plots . I really enjoyed it alot. Bond has done it again!
**this book is suitable for adult readers only
With a little revenge plot cooked up by their fellow editor Jane ( they all interned together at Parkbench where Tallie still works) against a playboy agent they bore a grudge towards everying quickly spirls out of control... Let the hijincks begin !
This book was a fun engrossing read an Ireccomend ot to anyone looking for a good laugh and twisty turny plots . I really enjoyed it alot. Bond has done it again!
**this book is suitable for adult readers only
February 6, 2013
Stephanie Bond has a very readable style and easily produces likable characters, good dialogue and funny scenes. Although this novel wasn't as funny - for me - as Our Husband, it made me smile and that is a good thing!
Well-written and reasonably fast-paced, the main characters of Tallie, Felicia and Jane (with an accent on the "e" so people will think she is French) are engaging and mildly dilly in their scheme to wreak revenge on a glamorous man-whore agent who has scammed plenty of people.
The ending is a surprise and the "final" ending for Tallie is resolved without drama and in consequence, more effective for that.
Another good job for Ms Bond!
Well-written and reasonably fast-paced, the main characters of Tallie, Felicia and Jane (with an accent on the "e" so people will think she is French) are engaging and mildly dilly in their scheme to wreak revenge on a glamorous man-whore agent who has scammed plenty of people.
The ending is a surprise and the "final" ending for Tallie is resolved without drama and in consequence, more effective for that.
Another good job for Ms Bond!
January 26, 2013
This book had at least 3 "F" words and two explicit sex scenes that Stephanie Bond usually doesn't have. Unfortunately, I still enjoyed it very much. What does that say about my character? This is the third of Ms. Bonds books that I've read and I tried to follow little clues as I read to see if I could come to the conclusion before the end of the book. I figured out most, but missed several anyways. This makes reading the book fun for me. I also enjoyed the inside aspect of a publishing company, and all the "political" run around that takes place. I will now never write a book of my own.
November 4, 2012
A light humorous book. Good beach read.
A man dies and three very different women discover he was married to them all. After the initial squabbling about who was really his wife and who gets what from his estate, the women bond to solve a mutual problem. The book comes to a satisfying end and we are left with happy thoughts. To say this book is light reading is an understatement. If you let go of it while reading it may levitate. Nevertheless, it’s an entertaining read.
A man dies and three very different women discover he was married to them all. After the initial squabbling about who was really his wife and who gets what from his estate, the women bond to solve a mutual problem. The book comes to a satisfying end and we are left with happy thoughts. To say this book is light reading is an understatement. If you let go of it while reading it may levitate. Nevertheless, it’s an entertaining read.
June 24, 2012
Bond, Stephanie Bond...she's no Ian Fleming, but Bond is a good writer, and her light, romantic comedy mysteries do hit the spot. There's more explicit sex in Whole Lotta Trouble than other Stephanie Bond mysteries I have read, but it doesn't detract from the story.
The ending is a bit contrived, but it hangs together well enough, and there are some interesting twists.
The ending is a bit contrived, but it hangs together well enough, and there are some interesting twists.
September 16, 2024
if it’s Stephanie Bond book you can’t go wrong
Once again Stephanie has a page turner. I found myself trying not to read to fast and make it last but finding it hard not turning pages to see what happens next. This one has two cousins on the run for different reasons, it’s a fun quick read. I great way to spend a lazy afternoon.
Once again Stephanie has a page turner. I found myself trying not to read to fast and make it last but finding it hard not turning pages to see what happens next. This one has two cousins on the run for different reasons, it’s a fun quick read. I great way to spend a lazy afternoon.
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