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NOLA MACINTIRE IS A SANTA BARBARA DETECTIVE WITH A MOUNTING FEAR OF AGING—AND THREE MURDERS TO SOLVE It’s the glamorous Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and Nola MacIntire, the Deputy Chief of Detectives for the Santa Barbara Police Department, has three dead bodies on her hands and a boss breathing down her neck to keep the blood-frenzied media at bay. Plus her fear of aging is threatening to become a full-fledged midlife crisis. Fortunately, Nola’s got the gumshoe chops and an intuitive talent for solving challenging crimes—and there’s nothing like a murder to take her mind off fledging crows’ feet. It helps that she has the perfect partner (and foil) in Detective Tony Angellotti, a handsome Casanova who’s determined to keep Nola’s neuroses at bay. The two give new snap to the term “snappy dialogue,” and they follow every lead—from a homeless shelter to an obscenely over-the-top mansion, an Air Force base to a beer-soaked UCSB student apartment—to unravel the mystery and save their idyllic hometown from even more death and destruction. Hard-boiled yet hilarious, Marry, Kiss, Kill is one of the sharpest and funniest mysteries to debut in years.