Body Movers

✍ Scribed by Bond, Stephanie

• Book ID: 108111440
• Publisher: Mira
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 182 KB
• Series: Body Movers 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781426802676

✦ Synopsis

So Carlotta Wren's life hasn't turned out as she'd planned. She didn't plan for her parents to skip bail for a white-collar crime, leaving her to raise her brother. She didn't plan on having the silver spoon ripped from her mouth and forgoing college to work retail. She didn't plan on her blue-blood fiance dumping her. And she didn't plan on still being single ten years later, working at Neiman Marcus, with no idea where her fugitive parents are. But she's coping. Until--

--her lovable brother is arrested, and the hunky cop decides to reopen her parents' case.

--her brother becomes a body mover for the morgue, and his sexy boss gets Carlotta involved.

--her former fiance's wife (a good customer) is murdered, fingering Carlotta.

With three men in her life, Carlotta has added motivation to help bag a murderer to keep her own well-dressed body from being next on the list!

From Booklist

Carlotta Wren's pampered life as the daughter of wealthy, doting parents ends abruptly when said parents commit a white-collar crime and leave the country to avoid prosecution. Carlotta is left with Wesley, her bright but trouble-prone brother. Working as a salesclerk in Atlanta's Neiman Marcus store, Carlotta endures the catty comments of former "friends" such as Angela Ashford, the woman who married Carlotta's fiance when he broke up with her after the scandal with her parents. Now Wesley has become a gambling addict. When Carlotta makes him get a job, she never dreamed that Wesley would become a body mover--someone who removes corpses from nursing homes, hospitals, and crime scenes--and that one of his first assignments would be to pick up a very dead Angela Ashford. Detective Jack Terry, who still hasn't given up on solving Carlotta and Wesley's parents' case, is convinced that Carlotta killed Angela, and he finds his attraction to her deeply annoying. A popular romantic suspense author, Bond has successfully switched to the crime genre, bringing along her trademark humor and panache. Watch for future titles in the Body Movers series. Shelley Mosley
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Review

". . . a true catch-you-by-surprise plot twist that gives the story a good yank in the right direction." -- Publishers Weekly on Party Crashers

"There should be a notice on her books: For a really GOOD time, read Stephanie Bond!" -- America Online Romance Fiction Forum

"This is the best book I've ever read!" -- Stephanie's mom