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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A definite "guilty pleasure",
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This review is from: Black Rubber Dress: A Sam Jones Novel (Paperback)
The Sam Jones series of suspense novels by Lauren Henderson was recommended to me by an editor at Amazon.com, and I decided to take a chance and purchase the earliest one available (the actual first in the series "Dead White Female", appears to be out of print) as a gift to my 21 year old daughter, who enjoys books with a female protagonist. She liked the book very much, so I read it, and I also enjoyed it. Sam Jones is not the typical female character, but rather an independent, single person who lets nothing stand in her way when she has the scent of a good mystery. The tale is well-told, with a number of interesting characters and minor plots. The mystery is rather straight-forward, but that's all right with me: I'm not engaged in a guessing game with the author, I just like to read the book. Some references to things only known by British readers tends to be puzzling, but I'm sure overseas readers of American books have the same problem. This is well done, and a good diversion for a few hours at any time of year.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An "edgy" and hip mystery which includes sex and drugs.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Black Rubber Dress: A Sam Jones Novel (Paperback)
I loved Lauren Henderson's book "Black Rubber Dress" but the reader should be aware that the Samantha (Sam) Jones character does induldge in casual sex and casual cocaine use. If you think Janet Evanovich's series with Stephanie Plum is wild, you won't believe Sam Jones!! But Henderson is a very good writer and the action is funny and fast paced. I wanted to read more but her other books are not in print (at least in the US).
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Unconventional, sexy London mystery heroine,
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This review is from: Black Rubber Dress: A Sam Jones Novel (Paperback)
Our heroine's name here is *Samantha* Jones, not Bridget...but if Bridget Jones lost her paranoia and self-obsession she might turn into Sam Jones! There's much of the same characterization, concern and compulsion with boyfriends, dating, sex, losing weight, career, etc., transplanted into a hip North London sculptor, and thankfully, it's a lot more entertaining to read. (Brief memo to Helen Fielding: give poor Bridget a *plot* next time!) If you like British mysteries but are turned off by their usual two extremes: the elderly biddy detective solving the murder of the vicar in the tea garden, or the world-weary Birmingham cop battling corruption in his own force...then this is the book, and the character, for you. Sam Jones is a breath of fresh air...a young, confident (mostly), sexy sculptor from Camden Town (no, she's *not* Cockney, as another review here has said!) Definitely an non-traditional mystery series heroine--she sniffs coke, juggles lovers, and takes action to solve a mystery not necessarily out of justice, but rather because it's her sculpture that's crushed a murder victim. The mystery takes a while to get going in the book (the murder doesn't occur until about a third of the way through, and Sam doesn't even really start taking action until two-thirds in)...but I didn't mind because the personalities, scenery, and subplots were so compelling and fun to read about--scandal, blackmail, drugs and murder inside an ultra-exclusive society family and London banking firm rope in Sam, giving her a lover from the privileged side of the tracks. For the Anglophiles there's plenty of London atmosphere from trendy Kensington to hip Camden Town, and this is definitely a character worth watching and checking in on in future Sam Jones mysteries. She reminded me a bit of Stephanie Plum in Janet Evanovich's mysteries...sexy, spunky, sometimes a little out of her depth but always entertaining to watch. Perhaps I'd like to see Lauren Henderson work on having a stronger mystery plot itself in her next book, but if the characters and scene-setting are as entertaining as this one, I'll gladly forgive her that!
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