Stella, Get Your Man

Stella #2

by Nancy Bartholomew

"Just once I'd like to have a plan go my way. Is that too much to ask?"

Smart-mouthed P.I. Stella Valocchi is finally in business, with the office and the aggravating employee–former fiancé Jake Carpenter–to prove it. And when a client with a sob story hires them to find her brother, success is one missing man away–until the search becomes hazardous to Stella's life. Threats, gunshots and car chases won't put her off the case. Neither will Jake's insistence that they be full partners–and maybe more. But the closer Stella is to getting her man, the more the case looks like a carefully set trap–and she's the bait....

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Eden · Rating 3 out of 5]

2020 bk 120. Not as complicated a plot as the prior book, but it is close. I think this is my favorite of the three. Stella and the PI agency (former boyfriend, cousin, cousin's girlfriend, aunt) are hired to track down a man who was adopted away from his sisters. Sounds simple in today's world, fifteen years ago there were some databases, but not the dna testing available to the public. The only clue is the coastal town where the siblings were born. As their aunt is being stalked, the group moves kit and caboodle to the target town where Stella and all of the group are now being stalked...by thugs and government agents, aunt by the person who keeps sending her flowers and has photographs taken of everything she does. A fun plot with many interesting characters.