Praise for Nancy Bartholomewâs
Stella, Get Your Gun
âFans of Janet Evanovichâs Stephanie Plum should enjoy Nancy Bartholomewâs sassy Stella Valocchiâ¦a fun, fast-paced mystery with a distinctive heroine, an intriguing hero and humor.â
âRomantic Times Magazine
âA clever, outrageously funny caper.â
âNew York Times bestselling author Stella Cameron
âA kick-ass heroine and an engaging story, Stella, Get Your Gun is unquestionably a winner.â
âRomance Reviews Today
âIâd like to come by later and check on you,â Detective Gray Evans said. He tried to grin and I tried harder to resist him.
âHow about I call you?â I lied.
He nodded. He knew I was lying.
I walked him through the house to the front door, opened it and stood just inside the hallway while he said goodbye. The farther away from me he was, the less chance there was of me giving in. I forced a smile, thanked him again and closed the door.
However, deep down inside, I was thinking a fish might not need a bicycle, but it sure would enjoy a ride every now and then.
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In Sophieâs Last Stand by Nancy Bartholomew, Sophie Mazarattiâs trying to start over after her marriage ends very badlyâbut it seems her slimy ex has left her in a sticky situation involving the mob, the Feds and one darned attractive detectiveâ¦.
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didnât seem like the Bombshell type at first. Sure, she grew up in Philadelphia, but she was a gentle ministerâs daughter. Sometimes, though, true wildness simmers just below the surface. Nancy started singing country music in biker bars before she graduated from high school. And, yes, Dad was there, sitting in the front row, watching over his little girl!
Nancy graduated from college with a degree in psychology and promptly moved into the inner city where she found work dragging addicted inner-city teenagers into drug and alcohol rehabilitation. She then moved south to Atlanta, and worked as the director of a substance-abuse treatment program for court-ordered offenders. Her patients were bikers and strippers and they taught her wellâ¦lock picking, exotic dancing, gunplay for beginners and hot-wiring cars.
When the criminal life became less of a challenge, Nancy turned to the final frontierâ¦parenthood. This drove Nancy to writing. While her boys were toddlers, Nancy spent their nap-times creating alternate realities. Nancy lives in North Carolina, rides with the police on a regular basis, raises two hooligan teenage boys and tries to keep up with her writing, her psychotherapy practice and her garden. She thanks you from the bottom of her heart for reading this book!
For Becky, the wonderful sister who provided the inspiration and the motivation, and didnât disown me for writing it all down!
Thank you!
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
T he first time I spotted him, I figured I was just a little bit paranoid.
Being followed by strangers was my daily ritual in Philadelphia, but I was in North Carolina now. I couldnât imagine that anybody from up there would take the time and energy to follow me all the way to New Bern just to ruin my vacation.
Besides, my sister was already doing a fine job of that. In fact, just moments before I saw him, obviously out of place in his dark suit and wraparound glasses, I was plotting Darleneâs impending demise. My sister just has that effect on me. She pushes me to the brink of homicidal frustration, all the while acting like sheâs just a well-intentioned love child with the best interest of her sister at heart. It drives me crazy. Now as I stood on the sidewalk, with Darlene not three feet away from me, I was thinking about how I could give her a little shove into oncoming traffic and have it be all over with. But the minute I saw the guy I stopped thinking about Darlene.