Janet Evanovich & Charlotte Hughes, Full Scoop

Full Scoop

Janet Evanovich & Charlotte Hughes

St. Martin's, Apr 2006, $7.99

ISBN: 0312934319

As a teen, Maggie Davenport fell in love with Carl Lee Stanton, who used her and deserted her. Maggie used her relationship with this bad boy as the impetus to turn herself around and make something of herself while also raising their child Mel with love. Meanwhile Maggie becomes a doctor while Carl Lee robbed a bank and killed an FBI Agent.

Life is good until Maggie learns that Carl Lee escaped from prison and is most likely heading to Beaumont, South Carolina to collect his hidden loot and to probably punish Maggie. To protect her and her now thirteen year old daughter, the FBI sends tired agent Zack Madden, who appreciates the opportunity to go after Carl Lee. The assignment should be easy as Zack appreciates the eccentricity of the townsfolk, but two things hamper him. First he is extremely attracted to the pediatrician he is to protect and second an Elvis impersonation convention has swamped the town with strangers.

The latest Beaumont mystery is as always "Full" of zany characters who cause havoc on the lead protagonists. Some consciously do so, for instance the reporter seeking the FULL SCOOP on Maggie's past; others are in the cards, just ask psychic Destiny; and finally those who unintentionally bring Maggie and Zack together, like her killer teenage boyfriend and the Elvis crowd. Readers who enjoy a lighthearted regional romantic police procedural will want to read this tale and its full line of predecessors.