"Nick Walker's story is all that and more!"

Leslie Kelly never fails to entertain me! I have thoroughly enjoyed every book she's ever written! Her single titles just showcase her talent! This book is the long awaited story of Nick Walker, Johnny Walker's (from SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY) younger brother. Nick is now a detective in the fine old city of Savannah, Georgia. He is on a stake out for a scumbag dope dealer looking pretty shabby when he sees a woman struggling to get a mattress out of a moving van into the very apartment building he's trying to stake out; not only that but the moving van is illegally parked to boot!

Melody Tanner can't believe she's back after divorcing her womanizing ex-husband dentist who uses his drill all right! He also sued her for all of her money because she was caught defacing his billboard and he thought it ruined his reputation, yeah right! Melody had made a bundle as a child star but when she turned 18 she gave it all up and her mother promptly left her for a rich husband, one of many. Then she married Bill at 21 and really messed up her life. But that's neither here nor there.

What Melody can't believe is the night before her wedding to the jerk, she and her friends Rosemary, Paige and Tanya had drinks and each made lists of the men they'd most want to go to bed with. The number one man on Melody's list was the soldier on the cover of Time magazine who saved some children in Bosnia. Now that list is coming back to haunt her big time.

First off, the men on Melody's list are systematically dying, whether from coincidence or murder which remains to be seen. Secondly the first man on her list is none other than Nick Walker. Rosemary thinks it's fate. Her man Dex is Nick's partner and she knows she just has to fix Melody and Nick up. The problem is they don't want to be fixed up as they both have serious commitment phobias due to prior marriages gone sour!

I laughed and I cried. This book was highly engaging. I had a great time 'listening' in on Melody and her friend's hilarious conversations! Leslie Kelly's handling of the mystery part of the book was spot on! I never guessed in a million years who the villain was! Kudo's, Leslie, for a suburb book. I can't wait for the next one!!

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted October 11, 2005

Summary

Finding true love can be murder...

Newly divorced and back in her hometown, Melody Tanner is ready to change her life for the better. Her girlfriends think it's the perfect time to revisit the lists they came up with as a joke at Melody's bachelorette party—a list of five men they could sleep with no matter what.

But when Melody looks at her list, she discovers two of the men are already dead. Worse, the homicide detective she contacts just happens to be her #1, former marine Nick Walker.

Nick isn't taking the coincidental deaths too seriously, until the other two men on the list die suspiciously. Melody thinks the only way to keep Nick alive is to let him go. But Nick's willing to take the risk. Besides, if he does have to check out, there's no place he'd rather do it than in Melody's arms....