Without a Clue

by Trish Jensen

Book Overview

Without a Clue by Trish Jensen released on Feb 08, 2005 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373442084
• ISBN13: 9780373442089
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Harlequin Flipside
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Fun n Cute

This was a fun book - it's not great writing or literature but, hey, it'll give you a few laughs and pass the time. Meg is an events planner and has unknowingly rented Matt Rossi's estate for her latest event (a murder mystery weekend). The uptight Matt and free-spirited Meg are a great match - they have funny conversations, and great chemistry. I was impressed by this small book and would recommend it.

a long awaited Jensen gem!

Trish Jensen is back! After a long absence - her last book was the utterly delightful Stuck On You for Dorchester Publishing September 2001 - this is the first of two new books from her. It's so great to see the talented writer back where she belongs. She's been ill of late and I hope she is back on her feet. This book is another Jensen gem! For Harlequin Flipside, it's so much fun! Since Meg Renshaw's wedding plans collapsed, she's thrown her energy in her work as an events planner in Charleston. Her current projects is a Murder Mystery Weekend at a plantation. However, the real mystery here is how poor Meg is going to survive the festival without turning into the corpse herself - not 'done in', but from a mortal faint from having everything go wrong! Her assistant first informs her the hired "corpse", on Terry Brogan, an actor who is so ashamed of this low pit stop in his career, has taken too many pain pills and has passed out. He swore he had root canal surgery and explained he was not drunk - just before he passed out. Well, that would have been fine if he waited, but playing dead to the world too soon has ruined the game of 'CLUE'. One guest is a cat - really. And things go to from bad to worse when the owner, developer Matt Rossi returns to his plantation where the event is being held and informs Meg she is trespassing.Matt is an uptight business sort, but Meg is an irresistible force and she soon has her fiddlie-dee charm wrapping the man around her finger. Not only does Matt not boot them out lock, stock and barrel, he agrees to play the corpse. Meg sighs of relief that things are finally back to normal and running smooth, soon learns differently. Her new corpse refuses to stay murdered, and her uptight, control freak of a 'body' is very warm and has designers on her! The book is lively, charming and shows Jensen is sharp as ever. This is just great fun from start to finish!! Welcome Back, Jensen!

wacky amusing romance

In Charleston, events planner Meg Renshaw hosts a weekend murder mystery gala. However, the festival goes poorly even before it begins as her assistant Tina Brown tells her the "corpse" Shakespearean actor Terence Brogan is so high probably to hide from how low he has fallen he would not feel a cement truck land on his head. Terence explains that he is a professional regardless of the gig, but he had emergency root canal surgery and is not inebriated; instead he is filled with pain pills slurring his words. That is the positive highlight as Meg concludes that Murphy was an optimist as everything seems to be going wrong and the weekend is just starting. Developer Matt Rossi comes to the estate her owns and rented to Meg. She and Tina persuade him to act the lord of the manor as her corpse. Out of character for the staid Matt he agrees because eh is very attracted to the creative Meg. She reciprocates though she feels somewhat like a necromantic sex fiend except this corpse stays warm and alive as he tries to lure her into his coffin, make that his bed. Though the theme of a prim and proper male meeting a loose extroverted female (think Sabrina) has been done plenty of times, Trish Jensen refreshes her tale with two wonderful opposites struggling with a wacky weekend made wackier by love. The lead duet is a likable pair and the support cast augments the plot by bringing to life the fun and pitfalls of the mystery weekend. The clues are obvious that this is an amusing romance in which the heroine gets the live corpse. Harriet Klausner