Babydoll by Allyson Roy
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- Pub. Date: August 2009
- 400pp
- Sales Rank: 123,851
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: August 2009
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Paperback, 400pp
- Sales Rank: 123,851
- ISBN-13: 9780425225509
- ISBN: 042522550X
Synopsis
"Stephanie Plum, meet Saylor Oz...."(New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips) A new novel featuring a downtown- Brooklyn sex therapist whose caseload includes the occasional murder.
In the last three months, three models have been found dead around New York City, each with a lock of hair missing. It would be just another tabloid headline to Saylor Oz-except that her best friend Benita's brother stands accused. Saylor is convinced someone is reenacting the events of an old movie called Bad, Bad Babydoll. But no one else thinks so-not even the sexy P.I. on the case. Undeterred, Saylor and Benita must infiltrate the modeling world-and put themselves at risk of becoming the killer's next victim.
Biography
Allyson Roy is a former stand-up comic.
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Sexy and Mad Cap equals a FUN Read!by Quzygirl
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September 27, 2009: I loved Babydoll! I loved Saylor and the book! Saylor is a feisty fun character! How could you not like her- she's a sex therapist who trips over her own words and get's into the most interesting predicaments! And the story was so much fun! Alice & Roy refer to Babydoll as 'Madcap Noir, where crime, comedy and romance meet' and it certainly does! From the opening scene where Saylor tries to have the hunk of a PI watch a porn movie with her strickly for proving her point that it's a clue to the recent murders of 3 top models to her best friend Benita's pet mynah bird, Uncle Petey, reciting some key phrases from that movie, Babydoll is entertaining. The romance is hot, the writing is great and the story is a lot of fun! We really get an "education" along with the great storyline because even though Saylor is on the move to solve these murders to free her friend Benita's accused brother from jail, she just can't shake her day job as a sex therapist which tends to pop up in whatever she's doing! Think of Saylor as Stephanie Plum with added "heat"! This is the second book in the Saylor Oz mysteries. The first was Aphrodisiac, and I look forward to reading that and future books in this series!
A fun, fast-paced, thoroughly enjoyable read, full of surprises, colorful characters and hairpin stoby martavago
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September 21, 2009: Babydoll is a worthy sequel to the groundbreaking "Aphrodisiac" by Allyson Roy. Written in a unique, "fusion" style the authors aptly call "madcap noir," Babydoll combines the best of mystery/suspense, humor, romance, and character-driven fiction to deliver an uncommon mix of dreads, laughs and page-turning excitement. No two-dimensional characters, relationship cliches or predictable scenarios here! The action moves effortlessly - and relentlessly - from urban grit, to over-the-top celebrity venues, to enclaves of the privileged, to blue-collar outposts. The personalities - both new and previously introduced in "Aphrodisiac" - are as diverse as any major city today and as unpredictable as life around us has become. This rich stew of places and people lends an extra - and extraordinary - dimension to what could otherwise have been just another book about people who do things most of us wouldn't think of doing in places we haven't been to or would want to go to. While the two women protagonists are both professionals in their own right, they are blessedly free of prevalent stereotypes, which makes them human and engaging, and, at times, exasperating. We so want them to have it all and they keep doing things they "shouldn't!" So, who wouldn't appreciate Babydoll? Only those who would find crossing the boundaries between humor, sex, romance, suspense,and murder mystery sacrilegious and too much to bear. Everyone else: fasten your seat belt and enjoy the wild ride of the second in the Saylor Oz series. I, for one, can't wait for the third!
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