Moonlighting

by Kate Lace

By day, Jess Dryden is a police officer. By night, she is an exotic dancer at Shoq nightclub. Holding down two jobs is not easy, but she's skint, and the money she earns dancing is too good to turn down. But when Jess's DI asks her to investigate some dodgy dealings at Shoq, her two lives threaten to collide, and the results could be explosive. And with her sexy police colleague Matt jumping to all the wrong conclusions, it's more than just her career that's on the line.

Genres: Chick Lit, Contemporary Romance

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Catherine Lace studied in different all girls schools from there until she left at eighteen. She joined the army, where she served eight years rose to the rank of Staff Captain. In the army, she met and married her husband. When she fell pregnant, the rules of the time meant that she had to leave. With three kids under four and a half, she was invited to help out with a magazine for army wives and she decide to want write.

Co-authored with a fellow army wife, she wrote a non-fiction book "Gumboots and Pearls" as Annie Jones. After it, she decided wrote romance novels. She wrote six Army romance novels as Catherine Jones, she said: "I loved being in the army. I love writing about it. I was in the army for eight years and I had a great time. I hope this is reflected in my books and I hope all my readers enjoy reading them." Her novel "Praise for Sisters in Arms", shortlisted for the 1999 Romantic Novelists' Association's Award. Now she decided change the type of romance novels and started to used the pseudonym of Kate Lace. Her novel "The Chalet Girl" was nominee to Romantic Novel of the Year Award Best.

She was elected the twenty-fourteenth Chairman (2007-2009) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and she was also the captain of the RNA "University Challenge - The Professionals" team which made it to the final of the 2005 series.

Her husband has left the army and their kids have grown up.

Reviews

[Pollypoptart · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'll be honest - I took this book on holiday and the main reason was because it was a Little Black Dress book and therefore quite small. (I had nine books in total, a few of which I gave to my sister to carry.) That being said, I had read Kate Lace's books in the past and found them enjoyable enough, so thought it would be a great read anyway. My sister read it first and thought it was okay but commented on how predictable it was. I had to agree. I don't mind predictable though, don't get me wrong. Chick-lit, as a genre, is fairly predictable. But it was the last book I read, after eight other fairly great novels in the genre and, perhaps because of this, it was a bit of a letdown. I wasn't particularly enamoured with any of the characters, or the storyline, and the coincidences were all a bit much. That being said, I didn't give up on it, read it all the way through, and found the ending satisfying enough. I just have read better books by the author in the past. I would, however, still read more books by the author.

[Anne/ Roebbes_reads_and_treats · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a 2.5-3 stars book for me. I really liked the premise of it and did not mind that Jess kept a lot of secrets that much. It was understandable in some instances and not her choice in others.
There were parts that didn’t make any sense to me and which spoiled it for me. The drug squad forcing her to go undercover without any support, training and so on seems really unprofessional for one thing.
The whole Matt-storyline after he decided that she was turning tricks behind his back made me very angry. I was kind of hopeful when she returned from the hospital and for the first time did not hope that HE would change his mind but saw that he had not listened to her, not trusted her and not given her any chance to talk to him. I kind of hoped for a happy ending where the sisters made up and realised they mainly needed each other. But well.
I also did not like that all the snooping Jess did was for nothing, the guys got caught because Matt went looking for her. She being captive (because other people messed up) was the reason the whole operation unraveled, not her brave going through the phone and office.
Also, Jess was looking for a career for herself throughout this book, yet at the end of the book there is no mention of what she now does. Is she a housewife? Did I overlook it?

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sometimes, you need a book with a somewhat predictable storyline: girl and boy meet in difficult circumstances, get together, have a big misunderstanding and a fight, break up, something bad happens, boy comes to the rescue... This is such a book. I liked it.

By day, Jess Dryden is a police officer. By night, she is an exotic dancer at Shoq nightclub. Holding down two jobs is not easy, but she's skint, and the money she earns dancing is too good to turn down. But when Jess's DI asks her to investigate some dodgy dealings at Shoq, her two lives threaten to collide, and the results could be explosive. And with her sexy police colleague Matt jumping to all the wrong conclusions, it's more than just her career that's on the line...

[TaleTerror · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book was great, as always Little Black Dress books are. The plot was different, Cop but an exotic dancer and not meaning to get into an undercover case, mixing professional work with pleasure of earning better money.

I loved the hint of the glamorous side that was shown in the club but usually, id expect in clubs like that (even though it was supposedly a 'classy' joint) there wasn't much of the ugly side to things in the clubs brought forward to attention much. I would have liked to see a little bit more grit to the whole behind the scenes of the drug operation going on.

[Janice · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was intrigued with the basic plot. Woman daylights as a police officer and needs to supplement her income so picks up a graveyard shift as an exotic dancer. I thought that kind of be it but the story has some unexpected twists and turns when her chief officer asks her to go undercover at her 2nd job Shoq and keep an eye on its boss as he is suspected of dealing drugs. I generally liked this book, its not a bad read.

[Melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sometimes, you just need something "light and fluffy" to read, and this book was just that. It was quite predictable, but with some interesting twists. A good, quick read, one of the reasons I enjoy the Black Dress books.

[Diniehafiz · Rating 3 out of 5]

finished it in one day. that never happens. so yeah its v.good