Murder on Naked Beach by J. J. Henderson
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: February 2006
- Publisher: Vanguard Press
- Format: Paperback, 274pp
- Series: Lucy Ripken Series
- ISBN-13: 9781593152871
- ISBN: 1593152876
Synopsis
30-something, single, and struggling to make it as a photographer in New York City, she's smart, tough, and fiercely protective of her friends and her privacy. Lucy wants to meet the right guy, but she's got to be free for a life of travel and adventure, and she finds both in Murder on Naked Beach, the first novel of this sizzling new mystery series.
It's the ugly side of winter in Manhattan and Lucy is itching to escape to a warmer climate. She manages to talk her way onto a press junket to Jamaica to photograph a posh new resort. Once her photo shoot is done, she'll have plenty of time left for windsurfing and catching up with her traveling companions. Instead, Lucy finds one of them dead in the hot tub on the resort's little island, known as Naked Beach. Although everyone claims the writer died of a heart attack, Lucy smells mischief and is determined to find out what really happened. But her curiosity leads her way off Jamaica's beaten tourist path, and straight into danger, drug smuggling, and the bed of an undercover DEA agent.
With Murder on Naked Beach, author J.J. Henderson introduces us to a sassy and sexy new sleuth in this suspenseful and sharply funny novel.
Kirkus Reviews
A travel writer discovers a drug-smuggling ring in Jamaica, with murder on the side. Thirtysomething journalist/photographer Lucy Ripken finds the usual suspects on a press-junket plane bound for a new Jamaican resort. Brash editor Mickey Wolf plays den mother, filling Lucy in on the folks she doesn't know, beginning with chic, imperious Louise Rousseau and half-Lebanese Jackson Hababi, who runs the hotel they'll be staying at as well as many others in the FunClubs chain. Prickly, prissy Angus Wilson is easily the most disliked of the group. At the other end of the spectrum is perky Allie Margolis, fresh out of Bennington College. On the first day of her stay, Lucy clicks with handsome windsurfing instructor Desmond and discovers Naked Beach, peopled unfortunately by some of the more unattractive members of the junket. The next day brings an even grimmer discovery: the body of Angus Wilson, floating in shallow water. Lucy, close at hand when Allie finds the corpse, helps calm her down while she snaps photos. The death is ruled an accident, but Lucy's not so sure. In any case, it's fodder for a great story. Her probing and picture-snapping uncover a cache of illegal drugs and point to murder. Travel writer Henderson's series kickoff shows promise-a terrific premise, great local color and an appealing cast-but the prose is flat.
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Murder on Naked Beachby Anonymous
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March 14, 2006: I like this book. I thought the main character was pretty cool and sassy and the location was fun. And I really like the first chapter of the next book (it's in the back of the book). I look forward to the rest of the series.
Murder on Naked Beachby Anonymous
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February 22, 2006: This book reads like a travel pamphlet you'd get from from travel agent. A poorly written one at that. That's no big suprise because that's the author's background. When she spends half a chapter describing the photo shoot of a new hotel, I found myself skipping whole paragraphs to get past the excrutiatingly boring detail. This book was not even mildly entertaining and I would avoid it like the plague.
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