5 Bodies to Die For (Body Movers) [Kindle Edition]

Stephanie Bond (Author)

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*Starred Review* Carlotta Wren, Neiman Marcus sales associate by day and a body mover–amateur sleuth by night, is in desperate need of a safe haven. She’s been stalked by a serial killer, pushed off a balcony, and had her car blown up. Now she’s linked to the so-called Charmed Killer, who places a bracelet charm in the mouths of his victims. Carlotta can’t rely on her brother, Wesley, an Oxy addict, for help, and her parents deserted them years ago. So, against her better judgment, Carlotta moves into the supposedly secure mansion of her high-school boyfriend, wealthy Peter Ashford, who still carries a flame for her. Things have gotten so dangerous, her current love, police detective Jack Terry, actually agrees to this arrangement. Bond’s latest mystery brims with suspense while also offering a liberal peppering of wickedly funny dialogue and situations as well as a Persian cat whose goal in life is to make Carlotta miserable. This standout is part of a terrific series librarians will want to have in full, from Body Movers (2006) to 2 Bodies for the Price of 1 (2007), 3 Men and a Body (2008), and 4 Bodies and a Funeral (2009). --Shelley Mosley

Product Description

The Charmed Killer is on the loose in Atlanta and Carlotta Wren is caught up in the terror--especially when her body-moving side business brings her dangerously close to the action.

And then...

She's forced to take refuge in her former fianc?'s house--much to the chagrin of other interested parties...

Her brother Wesley begins to behave as if he has his own death wish...

And someone close to her is implicated in the mass murders.

Meanwhile, Carlotta can't shake the feeling that danger is dogging her seemingly cursed family--and that the serial killer's exploits are starting to get personal....

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 282 KB
• Print Length: 320 pages
• Publisher: Mira; Original edition (May 1, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0027KRSSI
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,284 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Stephanie Bond was several years into a corporate computer programming career when an instructor in her night school MBA program remarked that she had a flair for writing and encouraged her to submit one of her projects to academic journals. "But," Stephanie says, "all I could think was 'I wonder if I could write a romance novel?'" Bond grew up on a farm in eastern Kentucky where the entertainment choices were few. Luckily, she had a beloved aunt who shared her passion for reading. "When she visited once a year, she brought boxes and boxes of books by Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney and lush historicals--I was in heaven! I think I learned most of what I know about world history from historical romance novels. So suddenly thinking about writing in the genre of the books I loved so much was very exciting." After writing every spare moment for two years, Stephanie sold her first romantic comedy manuscript, IRRESISTIBLE? to Harlequin books. Two years later, she walked away from her corporate career to write commercial fiction full time. To date, she's published over 60 romance and mystery projects with various New York publishers, and is most well-known for her BODY MOVERS humorous mystery series. Stephanie lives in midtown Atlanta and is probably working on a new story at the very moment.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good read, but left dangling indefinitely!, November 26, 2010

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Debbie King "happy in bookland" (Naples, FL USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 5 Bodies to Die For (Body Movers, Book 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

I love Stephanie Bond's style; her books are fast-paced, funny, filled with red-hot passion and lots of excitement, but this series has left a very sour taste - I raced through books 1 through 4, barely able to wait to crack the next cover to find out what mysterious/romantic adventure would befall Carlotta. Each book is written as a cliff-hanger; there is not a "temporary" ending to help soothe the wait. All well and good, as long as there is relief on the horizon. However, book 5 seems to do more unraveling than weaving the plotline, book 6 even more so, and... Horrors!! The rest of the series appears to be on more or less permanent hiatus, awaiting a possible TV series that doesn't actually seem to be in the works. I am very disappointed that the publisher and/or Stephanie Bond have opted for the same anti-reader ploy of Charlaine Harris's Sookie series. I'm not sure that I wish I'd never started this series, but I am indeed sorry that I'll probably never get to see how Carlotta's tale ends. Since I do wish I'd been warned beforehand, this is my caveat to all readers desiring an eventual plotted (and definitely foreseen) finish. You'll get sucked in, you'll love it, - and then you'll hate it...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Skip this one -- nothing happens, July 5, 2010

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Gadgeteer (Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 5 Bodies to Die For (Body Movers, Book 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

I can't believe I read this book, after the stupidity of the "4 bodies" that precedes it. "5 bodies" continues the inanity of "4 bodies," nothing new at all, but even after two books the author is unable to conclude a single story line. What a rip off.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars No mystery solved here, June 13, 2009

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D. Griffin "dargriff" (Wesley Chapel, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 5 Bodies to Die For (Body Movers, Book 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

Well it is entertaining, but Carlotta's inability to pick a guy is wearing thin. The Charmed Killer is not caught, just kills many more people and she still investigates and gets into trouble. Don't let the lack of closure stop you if you have read the series, you have to keep going.