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Louisiana Longshot
Miss Fortune Mystery · Book 1 · 2012
Audiobook available · 7 hr 20 min
Fortune Redding can survive a CIA mission, but passing as a librarian and former beauty queen may defeat her. Hiding from an arms dealer in Sinful, Louisiana, she needs to stay inconspicuous. Then her inherited dog finds a human bone, and a local murder investigation threatens to expose her.
From the author’s blurb
“It was a hell of a long shot....”Read the full description at Jana DeLeon author-store description
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What makes it funny?
The opening gives Fortune’s lethal footwear a second casualty: the CIA assistant who loved those expensive Prada shoes. Later, a colleague fears what Fortune might do with knitting needles. She objects to his account of an earlier pencil incident because he has the brand wrong.
The comedy at work
Fortune treats killing as familiar work and a beauty makeover as an ordeal. DeLeon keeps returning her combat instincts to everyday objects and social expectations, while her colleagues answer her complaints with insults of their own.
Try this if…
For readers who enjoy an abrasive, capable heroine whose biggest adjustment is ordinary social life, with a murder case and dangerous undercover work behind the jokes.
Good to know
The opening refers to child trafficking and killing, and Fortune faces a bounty on her life. The sarcastic exchanges accompany genuine danger.
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A few distinguishing details
- A CIA assassin impersonating a beauty queen and librarian
- Colleagues more worried about ruined shoes than lethal improvisation
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Sources & further reading
- Apple Books listing for Louisiana Longshot by Jana DeLeon reports 230 pages, released July 1, 2012, publisher Jana DeLeon.
Book information
- Jana DeLeon's official Louisiana Longshot page identifies it as Book 1 in the Miss Fortune Mysteries, gives audiobook narrator Cassandra Campbell, labels format Unabridged, runtime 7h 20m, and lists ISBN 978-1478132233; its general 250-page count is not assigned to a format.
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Book information
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