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	Christine Speakman is addicted to books. She's returned to the writing and reviewing arena after a four year hiatus. Christine will be specializing in E-book reviews for FMAM.

TWO REDHEADS & A DEAD BLONDE
Lloyd L. Corricelli
Chippewa Publishing, August 2006
eBook, $7.00,
Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF) ISBN: 1-933400-48-X

As with most book addicts, I have my favourites. Those authors and their characters that are my "must haves." Robert Parker's Spenser, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Louis L'Amour, and Sara Paretsky's Warshawski just to name a few. I'm very pleased to add a new author to my list: Lloyd L. Corricelli.

TWO REDHEADS & A DEAD BLONDE is a good old-fashioned no-nonsense PI story. The character Ronan Marino is a loveable rogue with just a right amount of male ego and self-depreciating humour. The fact that this character is a lottery winner makes for a different twist to the poor down-and-out detective vs. the family-rich detective. Marino's half-hearted complaints about his, now touchy-feely, Italian Catholic father and Irish Protestant mother make him even more endearing. His younger brother, Marc, is the youngest police chief in the state; and Uncle Salvador Marino is head of a local crime family. Here's a hero you can imagine being or being with, and still shake your head and smile at his stumbles and troubles.

In TWO REDHEADS & A DEAD BLONDE Marino is caught between two redheads and a dead blonde. Straightforward enough. However, nothing is straightforward for Marino. He's trying to figure out which redhead is less trouble, what the blonde's secrets were, and whether or not he's going to end up ruining baby brother's political dreams. Let alone staying alive.

I can't wait for Lloyd L. Corricelli's next Ronan Marino's book. Another "must have."

Christine I. Speakman

Available formats: Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF), Palm Doc (PDB), Rocket/REB1100 (RB), Pocket PC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB), hiebook (KML), iSilo (PDB), Mobipocket (PRC), OEBFF Format (IMP), Microsoft Reader (LIT), HTML

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