Angel's Advocate (A Beaufort & Company Mystery) (Paperback)

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"Engaging and charismatic...will be a breath of fresh air for fans of paranormal cozy mysteries."
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"Wonderfully inventive approach to afterlife."
-MADELYN ALT

Product Description

Money's been tight ever since Bree Winston Beaufort inherited Savannah's haunted law firm Beaufort & Company along with its less-than-angelic staff. But she's finally going to tackle a case that pays the bills representing a spoiled girl who stole someone's Girl Scout cookie money. But soon enough she finds that her client's departed millionaire father needs help too. Can she help an unsavory father/daughter duo and make a living off of the living?

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Berkley (June 2, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425228754
• ISBN-13: 978-0425228753
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #60,978 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Angels Advocate, July 4, 2009

By	Story Circle Book Reviews (www.storycirclebookreviews.org) - See all my reviews

How do the dead get justice? Do they contact a lawyer? In Mary Stanton's latest release, Angel's Advocate, we get a paranormal glance at the funny, and sometimes dangerous, side of lawyering for the Celestial courts.

When a 17-year-old girl decides to mug a Girl Scout selling cookies, the old Savannah family network kicks in. A young lawyer by the name of Briana Beaufort, Bree for short, is coerced by her aunt to take on the case as a family favor. Through twists and turns in the "Cookie Mugger" case, Bree gets tangled in a web wherein she finds herself with the real client--the teen girl's dead father who may have been falsely condemned to one of the lowest planes of Hell.

Working with Angels as your backup should be a walk in the park, but it's more like a walk in the cemetery for Bree, as she thinks to herself: "Well, let's see. In the past twenty-four hours, I've retained another dead soul as a client, dealt with a kid so screwed up she torments dogs, and discovered that yep, I'm being followed by a pair of corpses who've jumped through the barricades between this world and the next so they can take me on a permanent, highly unpleasant tropical vacation."

I giggled out loud as I met some of the quirky characters and shuddered at some of the spooky scenes, so it's easy to get involved in this book. I did get a little tired of hearing so many people tell the heroine how tired and unwell she looks, but the upsets in the plot kept me intrigued through to a surprising end. This new twist on mystery is sure to be a fun series to follow.

by Rhonda Esakov
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Seems like a hurried sequel, June 15, 2009

By	kazza (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews

I bought this second in the series the day it was released, as I couldn't wait to get to it! I was a bit disappointed, as this book didn't have the same magic as the first. I don't think it would stand alone very well; the author seemed to gloss over so much of the ghostly happenings that occurred around Bree in the first novel that the few occurances that were in this book would be confusing. I also felt let down by the scant interaction with the characters working with Bree in the first novel. Maybe I expected too much, but I am willing to hold out for the third in the hopes that it will bring back the spark that the first one had with these brilliant supernatural beings that have walked (flown?)into Bree's life. This one reads more like a mystery with the supernatural thrown in quickly.

I still recommend this book to keep with the flow...

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Welcomed Second Beaufort and Company Book, June 2, 2009

By	Edie Dykeman - See all my reviews

Angel's Advocate is a welcome second Beaufort and Company paranormal cozy from Mary Stanton. Taking up where Defending Angels left off, Brianna Winston-Beaufort, attorney at law is working on a new case. Stanton deftly brings readers up to date in this excellent stand-alone story.

Bree returns for her sophomore case in beautiful Savannah, the most haunted city in the world. Still awaiting renovations to her main practice, Bree and her staff have settled in at their temporary office adjacent to the historic all-murderers cemetery.

A seventeen-year-old high school cheerleader stole $165.26 from a Girl Scout selling cookies in a mall parking lot. In plain site, Lindsay pulled up to the front of the mall, got out of the car, pushed the young girl, and grabbed the shoebox of money, taking off with her girlfriends in her daddy's Hummer. Unfortunately, a quick thinking kid in the parking lot filmed the whole scene on his cell phone and the dirty deed was soon all over the news.

Surprising everyone, including herself, Bree takes the case as a favor to her Aunt Cissy. Not only did the cheerleader attack the much younger Girl Scout in broad daylight, Bree soon discovers Lindsay is a member of the Probert Chandler family of Marlowe drugstore fame. With her beloved rescued dog Sasha by her side, Bree attempts to find a way to help the wayward teen.

In the meantime, her loyal staff, consisting of Ron and Petru, and Livinia, her landlady, uses their own special otherworldly skills to help Bree as only they can. Also making a return appearance is the hunky Lieutenant Sam Hunter.

Mary Stanton has delivered a smash hit as the endearing series continues to entertain. Her quirky cast of characters maintain an engaging realism certain to satisfy the most avid mystery lover.

Angel's Advocate (A Beaufort & Company Mystery)