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EVERYBODY is featured to full potential in this 4th of the series. Max and Jamie are as cautiously steamy as ever. Poor Muffin suffers symptoms of pregnancy, and Vera gets a lot more action and feature time than in previous episodes. It's a wonderful series. Finally saw Janet E. on TV last night with an ad for her new Stephanie Plum novel. Both series are great entertainment.

One big element in the enjoyment of these audio books is reader Lorelei King. She is the most expressive and comical reader I've ever heard and I've listened to MANY. Her vocal range between Jaime, Max, Vera, DeeDee and her oh-so-faithful Beenee (sp?)are astounding. All characters have a particular vocal distinction of their own.

I commute an hour each way to work and I can't find a better way to spend the time than with ANY Janet Evanovich or Charlotte Hughes book on CD. Passes the time so quickly. Can't wait to get back in the car and continue!!!

Here 'tis - the fourth in this list topping series set in the not at all peaceful town of Beaumont, South Carolina with a cast headed by newspaper editor Jamie Swift and irresistible millionaire Max Holt - an incendiary pair if there ever was one.

Audio books are such a pleasure, and one reason for this is A-one reader Lorelei King. Just ask Janet Evanovich: "Lorelei King started reading my British books originally, and I liked her so much I asked my American publishers if they would use her as well. She creates a character that everyone can understand and everyone can identify with. Each of the characters has a little different inflection so that we really do know when the character changes, but it's not so dramatic that you can't create the character in your head."

Amen to all of the above. So just settle in for another funny, sexy, and suspenseful romp with Jamie and Max as related in the incomparable voice of Lorelei King.

There's a heat wave in Beaumont right now, as well as the heat generated between Jamie and Max. Looking for a way to up the paper's income Jamie begins a personal ads column. Then, suddenly, very unBeaumontian things occur: off-color fortune cookies are produced by a local Chinese restaurant, a lingerie shop opens that would make Fredericks of Hollywood blush, and, of all things, pornographic pastries are popping from the bakery's ovens.

As if that were not enough - a few citizens that won't be greatly missed are murdered.

Jamie and Max have mayhem on their hands and romance on their minds.

- Gail Cooke

I picked up this book before I had read any other by the author, or in the series, and laughed my way through it. I LOVE the quirks of the charactors and Muffin is great! I went out and bought the other 3 books and devoured them in 2 days and have re-read all 4 books. They are very light reading, but enjoyable. A great summertime/beach book when you want to laugh.