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Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML:Sofie??s getting her feet under her as a PI and business is booming. So much so that she??s hired her (formerly) layabout cousin and a one-time petty criminal as ??boys of all work.? Okay, so her reputation??s become, well, complicated??everyone in Astoria, Queens, knows that from time to time she shoots one of her own clients??but on the whole, she??s getting a lot more respect than when she was best known for leaving her groom at the altar.
In fact, Sofie??s just landed her first big criminal case??one so big that it??s on the news nearly every night. A young man from not quite the wrong side of the tracks has been accused of murdering his beautiful, wealthy girlfriend. His alibi??s a mess and his attitude??s worse. But his sister believes he??s innocent, and soon, so does Sofie. Now she just has to prove it??or find the real killer.
If only she didn??t have a host of distractions: a body disappears from her aunt Sotiria??s funeral home (it??s only a week before Halloween, so this might be a prank, or it might have something to do with the dead man??s mysterious life). Sofie sees her Dino keeping company with her sister Efi (are they flirting? how dare he? how dare she?); and Jake Porter returns, somehow connected to the missing body and, as always, making Sofie go weak in the knees. And since Dino??s otherwise occupied. . . .
Meanwhile, young Johnny is facing a life s… (meer)
I came across Working Stiff when I was browsing at the library the other day. I saw the author’s name, recognized it, skimmed the blurb, and said ‘what the hell.’ Go figure that I find out after I start reading that this is actually the fourth book in the Sofie Metropolis series. Even so, I still read and enjoyed this one.
Sofie Metropolis is a P.I. out of Queens who takes on a case of a missing body - a missing dead body – for her aunt, and a case to try and find the real killer of a teenage girl so that a young man does not end up on trial for a murder he didn’t commit. This is something of a change from the cheating spouse and missing pet cases that Sofie is used to, but she is determined to succeed nonetheless.
In addition to following along with the cases there is the sheer insanity of working with a superstitious office manager who is sure that there is a neighborhood vampire around, dealing with a large Greek family and the meddling that comes along with the family, and of course a big Austrailian bounty hunter.
Working Stiff has a little bit of everything in it, mystery, romance (though not in the traditional, happily ever after sense), family… you get the jist. All in all it was a great read.
Many of the reviews compare the Metro books to My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but personally I find it’s not as outrageous as the movie was. However! The authors (Tori Carrington is actually Tony and Lori Karayianni) do a great job of winding a modern P.I. tale around the true Greek stereotypes that have been passed on over the years. I look forward to going back and reading the first three books in the series and then the fifth book which is scheduled for release this week. ( )
A fun novel (4th in the series) by husband/wife author team. There are gritty scenes and touching scenes in the mysteries with a little Greek flair. If you're a fan of Stephanie Plum, Sofie will be right up your alley, with a couple hot guys, a dog with issues and an aunt who owns a funeral home. ( )
Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML:Sofie??s getting her feet under her as a PI and business is booming. So much so that she??s hired her (formerly) layabout cousin and a one-time petty criminal as ??boys of all work.? Okay, so her reputation??s become, well, complicated??everyone in Astoria, Queens, knows that from time to time she shoots one of her own clients??but on the whole, she??s getting a lot more respect than when she was best known for leaving her groom at the altar.
In fact, Sofie??s just landed her first big criminal case??one so big that it??s on the news nearly every night. A young man from not quite the wrong side of the tracks has been accused of murdering his beautiful, wealthy girlfriend. His alibi??s a mess and his attitude??s worse. But his sister believes he??s innocent, and soon, so does Sofie. Now she just has to prove it??or find the real killer.
If only she didn??t have a host of distractions: a body disappears from her aunt Sotiria??s funeral home (it??s only a week before Halloween, so this might be a prank, or it might have something to do with the dead man??s mysterious life). Sofie sees her Dino keeping company with her sister Efi (are they flirting? how dare he? how dare she?); and Jake Porter returns, somehow connected to the missing body and, as always, making Sofie go weak in the knees. And since Dino??s otherwise occupied. . . .
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Sofie Metropolis is a P.I. out of Queens who takes on a case of a missing body - a missing dead body – for her aunt, and a case to try and find the real killer of a teenage girl so that a young man does not end up on trial for a murder he didn’t commit. This is something of a change from the cheating spouse and missing pet cases that Sofie is used to, but she is determined to succeed nonetheless.
In addition to following along with the cases there is the sheer insanity of working with a superstitious office manager who is sure that there is a neighborhood vampire around, dealing with a large Greek family and the meddling that comes along with the family, and of course a big Austrailian bounty hunter.
Working Stiff has a little bit of everything in it, mystery, romance (though not in the traditional, happily ever after sense), family… you get the jist. All in all it was a great read.
Many of the reviews compare the Metro books to My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but personally I find it’s not as outrageous as the movie was. However! The authors (Tori Carrington is actually Tony and Lori Karayianni) do a great job of winding a modern P.I. tale around the true Greek stereotypes that have been passed on over the years. I look forward to going back and reading the first three books in the series and then the fifth book which is scheduled for release this week. (