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The Jinx (Red Dress Ink Novels)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780373895403
ISBN: 0373895402
Label: Red Dress Ink
Manufacturer: Red Dress Ink
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: December 01, 2005
Publisher: Red Dress Ink
Studio: Red Dress Ink
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Editorial Review:
When everything's going right, it's a sure sign that things are about to go very, very wrong.
Rachel Benjamin's life might look glamorous but she has worked into the early morning on more nights, canceled more weekend plans and slept in more Holiday Inns in small industrial towns than she cares to count. (Standard practice in the business of mergers and acquisitions.) And that picture of her on the recent cover of Fortune? It inspired a reprise of her grandmother's favorite lecture, the one titled "You don't want to be one of those career gals, do you?" (Other popular hits include "Have you met anyone nice?" and "I just want to go to a wedding before I die.")
But this week Rachel's job is taking her to Boston, where in between work obligations she plans to squeeze in quality time with her promising new boyfriend. They've just hit the six-month mark and things are going so well, Rachel's not even worried anymore that she'll jinx it.
There are just a few little problems: Her friend's been attacked and a serial killer is on the loose -- and the two might actually be related. Oh, and her promising new boyfriend? He seems to be squeezing in quality time with his new gazelle-like, model-material colleague . . . Now Rachel's making like Miss Marple again, trying to track down her friend's assailant -- not to mention get a clue about her relationship. When she stopped worrying about jinxing things, did she jinx everything?
Rachel Benjamin, investment banker by day -- and night -- is delighted when her newest project takes her to Boston, because she'll have time to spend with her new boyfriend. Things change when Rachel's friend is attacked. There's a serial killer on the loose, and she must take on the role of Miss Marple. And what about the amount of time her so-called boyfriend is spending with his model-like colleague and making himself romantically unavailable? Just when she stopped worrying about jinxing things, did she jinx everything?
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A little too predictable, a little too flakey, and a little too cliche. . .
Where exactly do I begin? I think I have to begin by saying that I actually feel a little dumber having read this book. Honestly, I do. And I feel badly saying so because I'm sure Ms. Sturman is a very nice person, but I'm not convinced that I took anything really substantial from her most recent novel, except perhaps maybe the headache I got as I read the last few chapters on the train ride home tonight.
Now I had read The Pact, and a little less than two years ago I felt compelled ... Read More
Rating:  - Boring
I really wanted to love this; the premise was so good. But from page 1, it's all back story and asides. The story took a looong time to take off and then it wasn't very entertainingly written. It would have benefitted from some ruthless editing and a human doing the spell check. The typos were sloppy and inexcusable. One character "loses a tone of weight." Spell check won't catch that, but a real editor should have...the complaints keep going. Sorry, but this one's a snoozefest. Excellent for the ... Read More
Rating:  - Love it!
Jennifer Sturman does it again! I have really enjoyed both The Jinx and The Pact, and I am anxiously awaiting the release of The Key. Once I start one of her books, I can never put them down! (Perhaps I am a bit biased as a Bostonian though.)
Rating:  - Started off slow, but....
this turned out to be a really good book. I enjoyed immensly, it has lots of twists and turns.
Rating:  - Disappointing follow up to "The Pact"
Rachel Benjamin is back (last seen in "The Pact")! Investment banker by trade, and frustrated wanna-be sleuth, she has definitely seen far too many Agatha Christie movies!
She is tapped by her firm to recruit new graduates at her alma mater, Harvard. She and her four gal-pals coincidentally are having an annual get-together and her long distance boyfriend Peter will be in from San Francisco for a glorious week attending a conference, leaving them plenty of time to cuddle. Of course, a ... Read More
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