Funny Money (Haskell Blevins Mysteries) [Mass Market Paperback]

Taylor McCafferty (Author)

Book Description

Series: Haskell Blevins Mysteries | Publication Date: March 1, 2000

THE LORD GIVETH, AND THE LORD TAKETH AWAY.

Since leaving Louisville's homicide division to become the only P.I. in Pigeon Fork, Kentucky, Haskell Blevins regrettably spends more time helping out at his brother's drugstore than solving crimes. So when he's interrupted from shelving deodorant to discuss a "very private matter" with Brother Tallman, the preacher at the Pentecostal Church, Haskell can barely suppress a hallelujah.

It seems someone has been making unsolicited deposits into the church's bank account to the hymn of a quarter of a million dollars -- a real blessing, until that same someone started making withdrawals. Brother Tallman wants Haskell to discreetly find out who's tampering with the church funds. But as Haskell gets closer to the truth, it looks more and more like members of Brother Tallman's sanctimonious congregation have committed adultery, money laundering, and murder. And with every soul a suspect, solving these crimes will be a miracle.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Pigeon Fork, Ky., is very quiet for former Louisville cop and PI Harlan Blevins, until local clergyman Brother Isaac Tallman approaches him with a problem. After launching into a diatribe on saving sinners, the tightly wound preacher tells Blevins that he's troubled by deposits being made into the church account by some unknown person. Blevins, eager for a little action, follows the trail through the local banking world, in which branches are frequently inside supermarkets and tellers are often suspicious of strangers. The more he searches outside the church, the fewer clues he finds, so he turns his attention to the church members, including Sister Kay Fay Tallman, Brother Isaac's wife, who visits prisons, adopts stray animals and is considered within the congregation to be a saint. The investigation takes a tense turn when she disappears and her car is found. McCafferty (Pet Peeves) nicely infuses colorful locals into this twisting tale of crime-riddled small-town America. (Mar.)
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About the Author

Taylor McCafferty is the author of twelve novels (including five Haskell Blevins mysteries), and several short stories for national magazines. She lives in Lebanon Junction, Kentucky.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Pocket (March 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671001299
• ISBN-13: 978-0671001292
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,121,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It doesn't get better than this!!!, August 3, 2000

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J. A. Marks (cincinnati, Oh USA) - See all my reviews
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Just finished reading Funny Money by Taylor McCafferty. It was great. I loved every minute of it. Haskell gets another case, and it involves the strange deposits and withdrawals of cash from a holy-roller church's bank accounts. Of course, plenty of fun ensues as Haskell has to go undercover to find out what's going on..

The only sad part of the book was realizing that I'd have to wait a year for the next installment. I'm already impatient.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh God, it's funny!, July 19, 2000

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Brenda "MYSHELFDOTCOM" (United States) - See all my reviews
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Taylor McCafferty brings us another amusing chapter in the Haskell Blevins and Pigeon Fork mystery series. The author hasn't lost her touch; Funny Money is the fifth in the series and just as funny as the last four.

Put one Pentecostal preacher and creator of the local church bumper sticker "I Brake for Sinners" with one Private Detective who thinks it a tad presumptuous for any one person to think him or herself capable of judging the rest of humanity, and you will get one interesting, and most definitely hilarious, read. Haskell Blevins, a private detective and part time drug store assistant for his brother, is dying for a case to come along and save him from the menial task of stocking deodorant. When the town Pentecostal preacher shows up asking for his help, Haskell, still smarting from his last humiliating experience with the preacher, thinks twice and charges double before he agrees to help. Once on the case, Haskell has to solve who is blessing the church bank account and playing Indian giver.

I really enjoyed this mystery. The series characters are wonderful. I appreciated the author's humor and ability to make light of the things we take too serious. The mystery is well planned, and, to me, the plot was simple, but don't let that fool you; just when you think you know - the author throws some great curves.

A great series to follow.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Funny Money, May 12, 2000

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Merrill Bennington "Merrillanne" (Newnan, Georgia) - See all my reviews
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It is about time! We have been waiting for YEARS for this book. I have read all of the Haskel Blevins novels and loved them all. I have loaned out these books some many times that I had to buy a new set. When you start reading Funny Money, just like all of the rest of these books, you feel like you have found some old friends again. The characters are wonderful and the story line is really good. It is nice to have a mystery that makes you laugh out loud. However there was 1 loose end left unaccounted for - who was responsible for the incident with the garage door? Ms. McCafferty, please don't make us wait this long again.