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Love, Honour, and O’Brien: A Holly Love Mystery (Holly Love Mysteries) Paperback – January 3, 2012

by Jennifer Rowe (Author)

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She stared into the speckled mirror, wondering how she had come to this. How could she, Holly Love, apple of her parents’ eye, competent manipulator of invoices in Gorgon Office Supplies, have ended up alone and starving in a dead man’s flat? How indeed? Most reluctant heroines would throw in the towel at this point. But Holly Love is made of sterner stuff. She’s sworn to track down the cheating swine who ripped her life apart, and make him pay. But as she tries to keep her head in the face of a bizarre mystery, a gloomy old house, a hearse-driving Elvis impersonator and a gang of vengeful thugs – not to mention a garrulous and possibly possessed parrot – Holly is forced to come to terms with a great truth. However bad things seem, they can always get worse.

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"Ingenious, funny, with a cast of charming and eccentric characters." Kerry Greenwood, author of the Phryne Fisher and Corinna Chapman series

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Jennifer Rowe is a devotee of the murder mystery genre; she enjoys reading these ‘extended brainteasers’ as much as writing them. A multi‑award winning writer, Jennifer is the author of the Verity Birdwood and Tessa Vance mysteries, and creator of the television series Murder Call. Now she brings us the adventures of a new and reluctant/accidental P.I., Holly Love

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Poisoned Pen Press (January 3, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 250 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1590585453
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590585450
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.57 x 0.73 x 8.4 inches

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Joanne Dobson

Couldn't put it down!

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2013

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If I'd known what I was getting into, I probably wouldn't have started a novel about a hapless, defrauded fiancee who's mistaken for a dead Private Investigator and pulled into a case where . . . Well, telling more would result in spoilers. But I have to say, this was a whirlwind read! I started it late afternoon, put it down only to cook and eat supper, and finished it before I went to sleep. Such fun!

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2014

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A charming book from Jennifer Rowe. Holly is forced to become a detective after her lover takes her money and leaves and the detective she hires to find him drops dead. Holly Love is a charmer!

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M. Poller

falls short of her earlier mysteries

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2012

I've read this author's other mysteries with great enjoyment but this one disappointed me. I think I just didn't care for the heroine who is rather stupid. On the other hand, the characters aside from Holly are well described and quite memorable. The setting is the Blue Mountains not far from Sydney, Australia. If this becomes a series with Holly, then I won't be reading any of them.

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carl brookins

Fun and Funny Light Mystery

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2013

The author of this romp, Jennifer Rowe, is a prolific Australian writer. Her list of publications is nothing short of amazing. One can legitimately wonder how she can turn out so many fine works. Perhaps that's why this one too frequently sets this reviewer's teeth on edge. Having made that comment I will go on to note that the book is well-written, contains some fine, well-thought-out unusual characters and resolves a plot that is ingenious.

Holly Love, our protagonist is an inexperienced young woman making her way for the first time in the world of commerce. She's a back-office clerk in a sizable office supply retailer in Sydney. She processes invoices in a competent if uninspired manner. She has few friends outside the office and they don't appear very interesting. Holly Love has the unfortunate experience of falling for a slick, handsome bounder. A man with apparently stimulating talents, but one who has the moral balance of a feral cat.

On the eve of her wedding day to Andrew McNish, he pulls a disappearing act. Holly finds his house empty, his belongings gone and, later, all the money from their joint account nowhere in evidence. Holly quickly learns that Mr. McNish doesn't own the house and is in arrears all over town. Among those he apparently owes, are some seriously criminal thugs.

Holly, being of sterner stuff than many young ladies, decides to pursue that man and get her money back, if not her feelings mended. She hires a dodgy private detective who promptly locates the missing bridegroom and just as promptly, dies. Left alone for the second time, Holly does what any upstanding young lady would do, and therein lies the rest of this very funny and very clever tale. I recommend this well-nuanced novel highly.

A copy of the novel was supplied to me at no charge from the publisher.

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Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2016

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Funny, enjoyable and great characters.

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2012

Holly Love's fiance has run off on the eve of their wedding--with just about all of her money. This is the story of how she tries to track him down and gets embroiled with crooks, con men, a psychic, an Elvis impersonator, an exterminator, and more. Set in the Blue Mountains of Australia, this is a fast-paced, entertaining story with a likeable protagonist.
It's well written, well paced and just wacky enough.

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Sharon Redfern

Interesting mystery full of oddball characters!

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2012

Love, Honour and O'Brien is an interesting mystery featuring Holly Love. Holly has quit her job, left her apartment and blown her money on a new dress for her wedding to Andrew McNish. Unfortunately for Holly, Andrew has done a bunk leaving her with nothing but the money in her purse and some nasty looking thugs who want to find Andrew. Holly hires a seedy PI named O'Brien to find Andrew and decides to go to his office when she hasn't heard from him. She finds him deader than a doornail and also finds some clues to Andrew's whereabouts. She decides to camp out in his office since she has nowhere else to go and see if she can find Andrew on her own.
Holly's quest brings her to the decrepit stately home of Una Maggott, Andrew's stepsister, a really nasty old woman. Una thinks that Holly is a PI and hires her to find Andrew's body which she in convinced is hidden in the house somewhere. Una is sure one of the motley residents of the house has murdered Andrew and covered it up. Holly somehow gets another client and the adventure begins.
Reading this book was like falling down the rabbit hole. The story is fast and furious, the characters weird but compelling. Holly blunders her way through discovering what really happened to Andrew and uncovers quite the story. The secondary characters, like her psychic friend, sometimes add and sometimes confuse the story line. There is a strange bird, a python and an Elvis impersonator who drives a white hearse weaving their way through this story. I could not stop reading and I was very surprised with the outcome when the book finished. It does seem as though this is the first book in a series, and if so I would definitely read the next book. I love a quirky mystery!

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Diana M. Hockley

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2015

Holly Love is not the first girl to be ensnared by the dastardly Andrew McNish. Blithely accepting his stories of being in finance and accepting his proposal, she chucks in her job and heads for the Blue Mountains - yes, this is an Australian novel set in Australia - a great treat for an Australian reviewer! Of course, Andrew has flown the coop, taking Holly's money with her. Shocked, she engages a rather seedy Private Investigator, O.Brien, who promptly gets himself...well, dead...

The adventures of Holly, as she gathers new friends and a cockatoo along the way, are bright, sparkling and funny. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and would highly recommend it to anyone who comes across it. I would love to read another Holly Love book and hope that the author saw fit to write one. If not, she should have!!!

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