Dixie Cash, I Gave You My Heart, But You Sold It Online

I Gave You My Heart, But You Sold It Online

Dixie Cash

Morrow, November 2006, $21.95

ISBN 0060829710

In Salt Lick, Texas former rodeo superstar Quint Matthews asks his ex girlfriend Debbie Sue Overstreet and her "Domestic Equalizers" partner Edwina Perkins-Martin to uncover the hideaway of the thief using his credit card. He informs the ladies that he was dating Veronica, but she vanished leaving his credit in shambles. Finally he insists they low key everything, as he is in hiding after a highly publicized fiasco involving a Vegas transvestite. The beauty parlor owners agree to investigate the theft.

Quint fails to inform the two sleuths that he is also in town to meet in person for the first time his new online girlfriend Allison Barker, who is a single mother raising a twelve year old daughter. What Quint does not know is that it is not the mom agreeing to a date, but the daughter masquerading as her mother. As the Equalizers work the case, Quint and Allison go out on a date, but she likes his friend Tag Freeman much more. Besides which, Quint has new problems with a stalker and a murder, with him as the only suspect.

The third madcap Domestic Equalizers mystery (see MY HEART MAY BE BROKEN BUT MY HAIR STILL LOOKS GREAT and SINCE YOU'RE LEAVING ANYWAY, TAKE OUT THE TRASH) is a zany way out West teas tale filled with an eccentric cast (including the lead females). The wild enjoyable storyline is character driven. Quint is quite a character as he jumps from the frying pan into the fire time after time. Edwina and Debbie Sue are as always stirring up trouble in between fixing hair, as they try to locate Veronica until Quint gets in even deeper, and they have to prove his innocence based on his being stupid and not a killer. Dixie cash provides an amusing, insane but fun thriller.