"A zany delight"

This is my third Flo Fitzpatrick novel in the last year, and I must say this writer continues to delight me. I utterly adored Ghost of a Chance, Kensington Zebra Debut Romance, August 2004. This was followed but the wacky delight, Hot Stuff, Kensington, April 2005. Both were great "fun" reads for me and firmly fixed this author as a talent on the rise. Now with Sweet Dreams, her first hardback release from Hilliard & Harris Publishers, December 2005, she keeps making me smile. Fitzpatrick's bio makes it clear she is taking a lemon and making lemonade and I for one hopes she continues to do so. A foot injury sidelined her dancing career, so she took that love of the arts and poured it into her books. As a former ballerina, I appreciate Fitzpatrick's ability to carry to reader to the backstage preparations, the frantic madness, the egos...the smell of grease paint!

In Sweet Dreams, Abby Foutchet is a dreamer. Her one dream is to perform on Broadway. Only in following her heart's desire, she failed to foresee dreams often could turn out to be nightmares. She gets that break on the Great White Way, but in a real life drama of murder, mayhem and corruption. But little stuff like that would never keep a good lass down and certainly not our Abby.

Johnny Gerard is a long-time performer on Broadway and television, a heartthrob to the masses. Only our lad isn't prepared for Abby's "road production" of Murder by Decree! hehehe. He slowly comes to see both he and Abby was up to their necks in Who Dun Its? His roommate was run down in a hit-and-run accident. The reader immediately ponders if the real target was Johnny. In short time, that question is answered, as someone starts shooting at Johnny and Abby. To save their careers they have to play Nick and Nora and find out just what is at the bottom of the real-life script of Murder She Wrote.

Once again, Fitzpatrick, delivers on all levels and leaves this reader eager for more of her charming stories.

Reviewed by DeborahAnne MacGillivray
Posted July 8, 2006

Summary

Abby Fouchet has always dreamed of performing on Broadway. She never imagined this desire would land her in the center of a different kind of dramatic production featuring murder and corruption. Johnny Gerard has been performing for years on Broadway and television. But shortly after meeting Abby, he finds himself plunged into a real-life script more dangerous than anything he's encountered as "Gregory Noble- Supercop" on his award- winning soap opera, Endless Time. First someone runs down Johnny's roommate in a bizarre hit-and-run accident. Then shots are fired at Johnny and Abby in Central Park. They agree it's hard to start a lasting romance or make any grand career moves with this kind of activity in the background. Fight - or Flight? The couple decides to get to the bottom of what seems to be the classic Manhattan mixture of Mob and Murder on Broadway.