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For Pete's Sake (Berkley Sensation)

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Be careful where you read this book. I have not laughed this hard during a read in a very long time. This book is full of quirky characters, situations you hope you will never run into and a romance that startes off in the most unexpected place.

Pete is trying to put together a nice funeral for her grandma, continue on with the fourth of July celebration that her town hosts and keep a smile on her face all the while. Well, that would be easy IF...when looking to put a mess of catfish into the freezer she didn't happen to see the frozen dead body of one of her late grandfather's mistress. She and her best friend are trying to come to terms with what they just saw...and more importantly what to do with it when enters Danny. Danny is her brothers divorce lawyer...he's there to start those proceedings but steps into the a bigger mess than he ever dreamed possible. Just when things can't get any worse...the dead body up and disappears. Add to this the rest of Pete's family showing up and chemistry between the playboy of the year (rumors are an ugly thing) and Pete's life has just gotten a tad more complicated. Can Pete and Danny find a common ground and quite time to see if their feelings are more than steamy lust? Oh, and just where did the dead body go?

This book is not brain surgery but it's fun. Ms. Buckley has created a very fun world to visit with characters that will make you smile and at time laugh out loud. Pete and Danny are a fun set of protaganist and their romance although not as steamy as the Florida Panhandle summer is sweet and not with out it's moments. I recommend this read if you love laughter with your romance.

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Pete, our heroine, is only trying to keep her disfunctional and incredibly wealthy family together and looking good in the eyes of the world. However she is really being tested when she has to hide her politician brothers divorce, her sisters messy playboy boyfriends, her creepy voodoo housekeepers predictions, host half the town events for 4th of July, and grieve for her freshly deceased grandmother who is yet to be buried...and oh, yeah, hide the corpse it turned out grandma stored in the broken down shed freezer. Throw in a hunky lawyer who just happens to know about "Ms. Fritz, the bimbo corpse" and wants her to naively turn to the police while falling head over heels for her and a mortician boyfriend who seems to be in on a body snatching scheme with half the town and you can see why this is an entertaining read.
For Pete's Sake isn't Pulitzer winning but it is a frolicking beach read that's worth picking up.

Pete's got broad shoulders. At least, her entire family seems to think so - anything happens, Pete - aka Peitra Lang - can take care of it. That's why, in the midst of the celebrations surrounding her grandmother's funeral - I'll explain that later - the family doesn't worry about the dead body in the deep freezer. Well, until the body disappears. Pete figures the problem is gone - but her brother's lawyer says otherwise. Pete is determined to throw the best party ever in memory of her grandmother, the matriarch of Langstown, but her family and Danny, the lawyer, keep distracting her. Can she pull off the party AND find out who was in the freezer without marring her family's good name? This is a cute romance, minor on the mystery. A good distraction.

Every family has a skeleton or two, but they generally don't move around. While planning the Fourth of July gala and her grandmother's funeral, Pete finds an extra body hidden in the decorations. Thus begins her game of let's hide grandfather's mistress' corpse so her murder won't sully granny's memory, complicated by the body vanishing. She wanted this, but she wanted to know where it was placed as well, and by whom. Her endeavors are assisted by divorce attorney Danny Benedict who is in town for secret reasons of his own. What is meant to be a madcap, possibly warmly humorous Southern comedy of errors is more error than comedy, relying on stereotypical eccentricity and confusion to create a result that is quite flat.

Though her grandma's recent death has caused a cloud over the Langstown, Florida annual Fourth of July gala, Pietra "Pete" Lang plans to make this the best celebration ever. However, she runs into a slight problem when she and her friend Albert Rheinhold open up a freezer and finds inside the defrosting corpse of a blond with the tattoo "Miss Fritz". The victim is obviously her long deceased grandfather's floozy.

Divorce attorney Danny Benedict finds Pete trying to dispose of the corpse. He is concerned as her brother Jackson is planning to run for state legislature while obtaining a divorce after ten years of marriage to wed a podiatrist. As Danny and Pete plot what to do, their initial attraction already hotter than a Floridian summer heats up; soon the are in love and he will do anything FOR PETE'S SAKE not caring about her grandma's reputation or her brother's political ambitions.

Readers will appreciate the amusing contemporary romance that will remind the audience of The Trouble With Harry. The story line never takes itself too seriously as Danny and Pete struggle with proof that her beloved grandma killed her husband's lover. The romance is deftly handled as is Jackson's efforts to change wives while running for public office, but the tale belongs to a triangle populated by dead people.

Harriet Klausner

I just finished this book. It was just fun and sexy all the way through. Geri Buckley has a way with words, colloquialisms and characters. I will definately be looking for her next book.

I enjoyed this book immensely. The characters were fun, the dialog witty and the story well paced. However, I didn't find there to be much romance or much mystery for that matter. The mystery of the woman in the freezer was never really solved, it was just sort of resolved at the end. And the "romance" of course resolved itself as romances always do.

It's a light, enjoyable read that's perfect for the beach or killing time in an airport.

I loved this book! The characters are not only well drawn they are someone you know and that's what makes this book a fantastic read. The dialogue is clever and quick from beginning to end. The story line is cute and not to be taken seriously which I enjoyed very much. I liked it that the author didn't clutter the book with unnecessary filler, and kept the story moving at a fast pace. You won't be disappointed with this one.

I gave this book 3 stars as I did like the characters very much, they were real and worth liking. I got this book off the mystery shelf, NOT the romance shelf, there was no mystery here, just far too much lust and little else. The lust in this book dominated the whole book, this is not what I was after, I wanted a MYSTERY! The writer/publisher needs to make sure these books end up on the ROMANCE shelf next time, they have no place in the mystery department.