Going Out In Style (Dallas O'Connor Mysteries) [Hardcover]

Kensington (Producer)

Book Description

Series: Dallas O'Connor Mysteries | Publication Date: July 1, 2000

A novel based on the screenplay by Martin Brest.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Stylist Dallas O'Connor, who arranges fashion shoots for a major Dallas, Tex., department store, makes a charming debut in this light, fast-paced mystery. A hectic and sometimes chaotic life hardly prepares Dallas for finding a knife-wielding man next to a young model's dead body on the set of an upcoming photo shoot. The manACuban photographer Raul DomingoAprotests his innocence, claiming that he picked up the knife accidentally. After learning that the police view her as the chief suspect, Dallas agrees to join Raul in a hunt for some photos that they hope will clear them both of the murder charge. While they're searching the files of a famous photographer inside his studio, however, someone sets fire to the place. Now Dallas's life gets even more complicated, as an on-the-scene news camera catches her and Raul running from the burning building. Convinced that her good friend and agent, Leo, will come to her aid, Dallas is horrified when he winds up dead. Who would brutally murder a model and a fashion agent? Only after a few makeovers for herself and Raul and with the help of some amazingly adaptive friends do Dallas and Raul identify and rope in the guilty party. Readers will be pleased to find that, along the way, Dallas from Dallas never loses her sense of humor. (July) FYI: Green has written three historical novels as Suzanne Frank.
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From Library Journal

In this series debut, fashion/set stylist Dallas O!Connor falls right into the thick of things when she discovers the body of a murdered model, gets chased around the studio by the supposed killer, and faces police who don!t believe her story. The next she knows, her pursuer (always proclaiming his innocence) kidnaps her, forces her into breaking and entering, then gets the two of them accused of arson. Dallas!s hateful boss looks for any excuse to fire her. The high-energy plotting continues, splayed against a big-city Texas background and complicated by various fashion-related suspects. Green also writes a time-travel series as Suzanne Frank (Sunrise on the Mediterranean). An amusing read; for larger collections.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Kensington (July 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575665743
• ISBN-13: 978-1575665740
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,024,890 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read, August 14, 2000

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"gavera" (DENTON, TEXAS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Going Out In Style (Dallas O'Connor Mysteries) (Hardcover)

Smart, fast paced, exciting, sexy and funny. Not funny because she tells jokes, but funny because of the heroine's outlook on life. She knows Dallas, Texas people and fashion industry folks to a 'T'. A real page-turner that you won't be able to put down.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Murder is fashionable, May 25, 2001

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"kathrynlively" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Going Out In Style (Dallas O'Connor Mysteries) (Hardcover)

Chloe Green is the pseudonym for one Suzanne Frank, authoress of a series of time-travel romance/suspense books, none of which I have read. Her debut mystery, Going Out in Style, is about as far away as one can get from time travel and ancient civilizations.

Anyway, Going Out concerns Dallas O'Connor, a local set designer who arranges and designs sets for catalog fashion shoots and similar projects; that is, Dallas would normally be doing these things if she were not in hiding. See, when she reports early to work one morning she happens upon the lifeless body of an up-and-coming model, not to mention the very life-filled body of a hunky Cuban artist named Raul who is holding the murder weapon. Sometimes the early bird gets more than the worm, sometimes she gets accused of wielding the knife herself for the final cut. Raul, naturally, asserts his own innocence as well, and Dallas is reluctantly made his partner in crime investigation. So, she blends into the city for which she was named, sneaking around to colleagues and friends conducting her own investigation in order to clear her name. It's not as easy as it sounds, however, as it seems somebody is usually one step ahead of her, planting traps and staging other crimes that have the police thinking Dallas is on some sort of spree, and Dallas must work quickly before she finds herself fashionably late to her own funeral.

Going Out is a nice, enjoyable read with moments of mirth and lunacy (particularly when Dallas and Raul are hashing out their plans and options); Dallas especially is likeable as a harried heroine who knows her priorities and still feels justified in bending the rules (it's not everyday somebody accepts a date with a stranger in a fancy restaurant when she's supposed to be running for her life). I suppose I also like this story because of its originality, since I do not recall having read a Texas-set mystery in years, much less anything with the fashion industry as a backdrop. If Suzanne/Chloe can tear herself away from her romances, I think she can continue to keep the Dallas O'Connor series in fashion.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Vacation Book, June 29, 2000

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Renee Jones (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Going Out In Style (Dallas O'Connor Mysteries) (Hardcover)

Chloe Green sets the pace for summer. Read those pages, and read them fast, or you might get caught by the murderer chasing Dallas O'Connor all over . . . well . . . Dallas. Capturing the essence of the city, Green weaves a tale of intrigue involving the fashion industry, the subculture including Greenville Avenue, the restaurants to see and where to be seen, and the corpses that seem to be wherever Dallas goes. This is the first in a series, so feel free to invest in this character. She'll be around for a while. It's smart. It's well-written. It's engaging. It's fun. Take extra sun block to the beach. You'll get caught up and roast.