The word "hilarious" appears over and over in reviews of The Butcher of Beverly Hills. Read it and laugh!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! The Butcher has come to call!.. along with the MANGLER and the VAMPIRE... How perfect could the timing be!!! I am going to start a triangle of rings for these three books by this author who I prodded into sending these onto a bookcrossing adventure. She is on MYSPACE and I was an instant fan. I will keep the rings USA only at first then after 10 readers each,,, they can go international to see where the world takes them. I would PLEASE request these were donated ESPECIALLY TO BE RINGS.. not to become part of your personal collection... they are to travel and meet readers all over the United States and then beyond. You can post your comments here and know that the author will get to see the journal entries. =) I don't know her personally but I've decided she has a great sense of humor and was reluctant to PUSH her books which is why I like her even more. A HUMBLE WRITER!!!! Well.. She mailed me some cool postcards and bookmarks that will travel with the bookrings... take one and pass the rest along... a souvenier from the author lest ye be tempted to KEEP THE book. Don't you dare or the Butcher The Mangler or the Vampire ARE SURE TO FIND YOU.... ♥ bbl ♥
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These are the three books and the links to each the rings... in case you want to see where they are...

THE BUTCHER OF BEVERLY HILLS
5 of 5 stars on amazon so far out of 10 reviews.: From Publishers Weekly
What if Stephanie Plum had an ex-cokehead for a sister? Gorgeous twin crime fighters battle a bunch of shady dudes in screenwriter Colt's vivacious debut, the first in a planned trilogy. Kerry and Terry McAfee are both tall, lanky and red-headed, but the similarity stops there: Terry's done time for cocaine possession and has a thing for dangerous women; Kerry's a UCLA grad with a fondness for dark, funny men. Together they're the L.A. PI firm Double Indemnity Investigations, a two-woman, perpetually broke organization dedicated to solving crimes, no job too big or small. When their aunt Reba, the Canasta Queen of Beverly Hills, sends her wealthy friend Lenore to ask the twins for their help in finding the $10,000 her playboy husband ran off with, Kerry and Terry find themselves up to their matching leather jackets in trouble. All roads lead to Dr. Hattrick, a pill-dispensing plastic surgeon who performs face-lifts on the Beverly Hills ladies-who-lunch crowd, but a cast of similarly menacing ne'er-do-wells, including a gun-toting Russian moll, a sleazy lawyer and a cop with a mullet and an attitude, keep the surprises coming. This is a fast-paced, gum-snapping, snarky chick-lit mystery with sparkle to spare. (July)
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MANGLER OF MALIBU CANYON
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon right now
From Publishers Weekly
After kicking some hijackers' butts on a plane arriving at LAX, PI twin sisters Kerry and Terry McAfee get on their pink Harley, zip onto the Pacific Coast Highway and cruise into Malibu for their second crime-solving romp (after 2005's The Butcher of Beverly Hills). Their wealthy great-aunt, Reba, and her middle-aged Ding Dong–addicted son, Robert, who's missing from a posh rehab facility, are in big trouble. After a headless corpse turns up rolled in a rug stashed in Reba's new Malibu digs and Robert surfaces with the matching head, both relatives are arrested and hustled off to jail. In their search for the real killer, the sleuthing sisters dodge a deadly over-the-hill TV actress, mobsters, New Age chicanery, far-out cosmic connections and a cheesy film producer. If the slaphappy plot defies believability, Kerry (the boy-crazy twin addicted to law enforcement types with big guns) and Terry (the twin who goes for leggy ladies) provide plenty of laughs. (June)
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THE VAMPIRE OF VENICE BEACH
THIS IS A 2007 PUBLICATION DATE BOOK!!!! So there are NO reviews yet on AMAZON.. YOU lucky dogs...I got it early!!!! WOW!!! He He He... Here's the blurb
Book Description

The hilariously dysfunctional crime-fighting duo of Kerry and Terry McAffee somehow survived the Butcher of Beverly Hills and the Mangler of Malibu Canyon. But will they be able to shine some California sunshine onto the Vampire of Venice Beach?

The action kicks off when the twins’ pal Darby Applewhite, a.k.a. Ephemera, Queen of the Undead, hires them to escort her hearse through the organized bedlam of the annual Venice Goth Parade. As a way of promoting the opening of the highly anticipated Dark Arts Gallery, Ephemera has planned to pop out of her coffin just as the hearse passes in front of the gallery. But while the twins are working crowd control, Ephemera suddenly pitches forward out of the coffin and onto the street—and Kerry and Terry are shocked to discover that the Queen of the Undead is in fact dead after all.

The stunt-gone-wrong gets more mysterious when the girls spot fang marks on Ephemera’s neck. Suddenly the parade of harmless misfits is transformed into a stream of potential suspects and the sleuthing sisters are plunged into a nefarious world of dentists specializing in prosthetic fangs, and a goth cult led by a blood drinker with a forked tongue. Will a host of welcome and unwelcome distractions—threats scrawled on their Harley in blood, vampires climbing through their skylight at night, amorous advances from Kerry's sometime love interest Detective Boatwright, and a litter of new puppies—derail the twins from getting their ghoul? Not bloody likely.

Bookring order:
1. ME ;-)
2. vraciousrdr
3 katintheboots
4 solittletime

5 NancyW1

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1. jacksmum2004 Shropshire United Kingdom
2. CandyDarling FINLAND

Now offering to a MYSPACER Kathy B. *(pending address) will amail as soon as I hear back from her. =)

I Just finished reading "The Butcher of Beverly Hills" Excellent debut!!! I'm off to post my review at Amazon.
I loved the fresh banter which is crisp, funny and imaginative. Glad it's a holiday weekend cause I will move on to "The Mangler" tonight ;-) Although I'm tempted to reread The Butcher because there are so many fun analogies and metaphors tucked into the dialogue.**SPOILER WARNING ** Looking back now for the rabid monkeys in jakarta one... Just found it on page 228 (with an assist- thx) Begins... "I'm treating my body like the temple it is."...". "A crumbling Jakartan ruin filled with rabid monkeys?"... I did't want to spoil it but I just HAD to write it down somewhere I could refer back to for a later chuckle when my memory fails and I want to recall it. Off to devour the MANGLER.

For anyone STILL considering plastic surgery, btw... have a gander over here awfulplasticsurgery.com

RELEASE NOTES:

Off to vraciousrdr for a funfest!

Can't wait to read it, heard a lot of good things. :)

Move over Stephanie Plum, there's a new girl in town. Or should I say, there are two new girls in town. "The Butcher of Beverly Hills" is the debut novel by Jennifer Colt featuring private eyes, Kerry and Terry McAfee.

Yes you read that right, Kerry and Terry; twins; redheads to boot and one is a lesbian. Men are going to be flocking to these books like gangbusters.

Great series! Witty with fun characters and interesting future developments. Quick moving and oh do we love the red herrings. This avid mystery fan figured it out but missed a crucial part. Let's see if the next reader can get it.

Definitely written with a slant towards future movie production. But who would play the twins? What redhead twin actresses are there? Or would they do the old Hollywood way and have one redhead actress play both parts, a la The Parent Trap. And please don't say Lindsay Lohan because these are good books. No offense to Lohan.

Can't wait to start on the second one!

1st in the series.

RELEASE NOTES:

released as part of a bookring to katintheboots

I found this book, the first in a spiral ring, on my doorstep when I got home this evening. Bookrings always seem to travel in packs, as I got one yesterday as well. But I've already started on that one, and will pick up this bookring as soon as I finish the one I'm currently reading.

This book represents another fun entry in the growing genre of the LA girl detective (or in this case, two girls). Having lived in southern California all my life, this is quickly becoming one of my favorite genres. Kerry and Terry were quite engaging, and I did appreciate how the author captured life in LA.

I'll PM the next person in line and try to ship this off sometime this week.

Sent to solittletime's new address this afternoon via media mail.

That was quick! Received in yesterday's mail, looks good. I'm halfway through another book (Bad Guys) but will read this one next and pass it along the ring-route.

A wild romp! A fun read! I'm really looking forward to the other books in this series too.

I work in an independent bookstore and I enjoyed the book enough to get a copy for the store so I could write up a blurb on it and put it in the "Staff Recommends" section.

(Dispproving the theory that BookCrossing will decrease book sales, my reading this free copy has caused me to buy one for the store and to recommend it to other customers.)

This book is ready to send on. I think it goes to NancyW1, but I've written to busybooklover to make sure, since there are some blank spaces listed in the Ring. Thanks for including me in the BookRing.

NancyW1 wrote me that she already got a copy of the book, so on to the next in line.

Mailed to jackmum2004 last week, unfortunately via the slow boat.

The book arrived just now, Woohoo, im so excited. Will start reading it today. Loving all the postcards and bookmarks too, which i will of course pass on :)

Thanks, I should have it finished in a few days, and ready to send on.

I really liked this book, a good story line, and fantastic funny bits. The bit where they explain themselves to the police, SO funny. And the ending, well they are twins i suppose, how was he to know which twin was which, lol!

Will be looking out for another book from the same auther now.

Off to PM the next in line now :)

RELEASE NOTES:

Posted onto CandyDarling. Hope you enjoy it :)

Got the book in the mail today. Thank you! I'm really looking forward to reading this!

Thanks for the boomarks and cards too. I will distribute them with the other bookrings I send out. :)

I read this book in March, I'm really sorry for the late journal entry! The Butcher of Beverly Hills was a funny and enjoyable read, and I'm very much looking forward to reading the rest of the books in the series. I loved Kerry and Terry, and the LA setting was great. I didn't figure out the mystery part until it was revealed. Thanks for introducing me to a great new author!

I left the book on the book exchange shelf at Vuosaari library.

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