Flo Fitzpatrick, Hot Stuff

Flo Fitzpatrick, Hot Stuff - Translator Tempe Walsh is in Hot Harry's Bar in Bombay working for client Ray DeCore who is negotiating with Himali Khan over purchasing Shiva's Diva statue. Tempe is translating to and from Hindi and English. The deal is struck when Tempe notices the statue is a fake. All hell breaks loose with bullets flying everywhere. Ray is dead, but Tempe survives due to her gymnastic skills and her Wonder Woman-like earrings. Briggan "Strider" O'Brian, who speaks Gaelic, escapes with Tempe and the original statue.

Everyone in town seems to be after Brig and Tempe. Needing a place to hole up, the beleaguered couple chooses a Bollywood set, which turns out to make it even more difficult to decide who is the hero and who is the villain though Tempe likes Brig's kisses an awful lot.

This is a tongue-in-cheek romantic suspense that takes off from the moment Tempe opens her mouth about the statue and never slows down until the final altercation. The storyline combines plenty of humor with excitement as the rogue and the language expert dodge danger within a movie production and fall in love although Tempe has doubts that she will ride off with the hero as her beloved is too much the imp even if he is her champion, kind of like the Douglas role in Romancing the Stone. Flo Fitzpatrick provides an amusing romantic adventure.

Zebra, Apr 2005, $5.99

ISBN: 082177753X

Harriet Klausner