Sparkle Hayter Książki

At 37, with one failed marriage and several lousy dates behind her, Robin Hudson is working on a new attitude - the Positive Mental one! Then her gynaecologist is murdered and her loathsome boss at the All News Network, Jerry Spurdle, sends her out to investigate a link with the S&M sex-club underworld. In the meantime someone is taking potshots at the Network's male talent. Are the shootings connected to the murder of the doctor? To Robin? Her PMA hanging by a thread, it's all down to Robin to solve the mystery.

Like a packed subway car, this humorous and entertaining werewolf novel rattles through the bowels of an unnamed city disgorging and picking up characters as it goes. Annie, a legal secretary and the nicest person you'd ever want to meet, discovers she suffers from LMD (Lycanthropic Metamorphic Disorder), which turns her into a werewolf on full moons and gives her an uncontrollable urge to rip out the throats of deserving evil-doers, including several arms merchants and corporate power-mongers. Annie is taken in (in more ways than one) by Dr. Marco Potenza, who runs a secret facility for recovering werewolves. But she also breaks the rules and falls in love with a renegade werewolf named Jim. Meanwhile Marco's wife and father, Annie's weird friends, the mayor of the city, and a sweet simpleton of a news reporter are all converging on the night of the harvest moon. Sparkle Hayter knows how to keep the plot galloping along like a werewolf in heat, and somehow makes the ridiculous strangely believable. Unexpected twists and turns concerning various adulterous affairs (who's "canoodling" whom?) keep it edgy and bubbling. On top of it all, Hayter, as fans of her outrageous Robin Hudson mystery series know, can be very funny. When Annie's friend Liz, a high-end caterer, mixes up two party orders, "the Orthodox Jews with drug problems got ham and cheese and shrimp salad and the gay cops got the kosher platter." --Mark Frutkin

New 'A' format edition of this hilarious crime romp featuring Robin Hudson, a spunky, sexy 'slightly rumpled, third string reporter in rita Hayworth's body.' 'Sparkle Hayter is a marvellous writer' - Marian Keyes 'Sparkle's debut really is sparkling with lots of laughs and superior bitchiness' - Daily Telegraph 'Hilarious stuff - we want more!' - Company

Robin Hudson, die New Yorker Fernsehjournalistin mit losem Mundwerk und dem Aussehen einer Rita Hayworth, hat es endlich geschafft. Man hat sie zum Boß der "Special Reports" bei All News Network befördert und ihr eine junge Praktikantin zur Seite gestellt. Damit die nette Kathy aus der Kleinstadt auch etwas in New York erlebt, will Robin mit ihr und ein paar Freundinnen an Halloween um die Häuser ziehen. Aber als Kathy zum vereinbarten Zeitpunkt nicht erscheint, sondern sich per Handy aus dem Wandschrank eines Unbekannten meldet, ahnt Robin, daß der Abend nicht wie geplant verlaufen könnte. Und tatsächlich wird die Halloween-Nacht alles andere als ein harmloses Tanzvergnügen.

Robin Hudson, Journalistin beim All News Network, erhält nach einer Nacht mit dem Verwaltungschef ein verdreifachtes Budget für ihre Reportage über den Kampf der Geschlechter. Während ihrer Recherchen stößt sie auf einen mysteriösen Mordfall, der mit der Norton Company und einem erotischen Duftstoff namens "Adam" verbunden ist.