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| Agnes and the Hitman | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (85 reviews)
Sales Rank: 151611
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0312363044
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312363048
ASIN: 0312363044
Publication Date: August 21, 2007
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Take one food writer named Cranky Agnes, add a hitman named Shane, mix them together with a Southern mob wedding, a missing necklace, two annoyed flamingos, and a dog named Rhett and you?ve got a recipe for a sexy, hilarious novel about the disastrous side of true love?
Agnes Crandall?s life goes awry when a dognapper invades her kitchen one night, seriously hampering her attempts to put on a wedding that she?s staked her entire net worth on. Then a hero climbs through her bedroom window. His name is Shane, no last name, just Shane, and he has his own problems: he?s got a big hit scheduled, a rival trying to take him out, and an ex-mobster uncle asking him to protect some little kid named Agnes. When he finds out that Agnes isn?t so little, his uncle has forgotten to mention a missing five million bucks he might have lost in Agnes?s house, and his last hit was a miss, Shane?s life isn?t looking so good, either. Then a bunch of lowlifes come looking for the money, a string of hit men show up for Agnes, and some wedding guests gather with intent to throw more than rice. Agnes and Shane have their hands full with greed, florists, treachery, flamingos, mayhem, mothers of the bride, and?most dangerous of all?each other.Agnes and the Hitmanis the perfect combination of sugar and spice, sweet and salty?a novel of delicious proportions.
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 DNF did not finish December 1, 2008
How many times can someone kill and get away with it? Some humor but very dull. I am confused about the reviews this one has gotten. BTW, the skillet gets old.
 Beware of Cooking Forks November 26, 2008
Audio Version - Okay the narrator didn't add to the story, in fact she may have taken away from it since she really couldn't pull off male voices. It didn't get any better the more it went on. If you're turned off by that, get the book in paper form.
Nevertheless, the story is good, not the greatest and while there weren't many surprises, a few, the connection between Agnes and Shane was great and I loved LL and Carpenter. I would certainly buy another book with the four main characters.
Setting, well described you could easily picture it in your mind. A little better description of the characters would have been appreciated but I could easily work with what I had.
Not what I would call a G rated book more like a strong PG-13.
More then several times I burst out laughing over the dialogue and never again will the verb `forking' be the same.
A nice cozy where the men who were paid to do their jobs did it, not all the women were nice, some were down right nasty in a realistic way, and all the loose ends were tied up in a nice neat package.
agnes and the hitman November 19, 2008
I bought this book on cd and couldn't make it past the second one. It was trite, boring an laughable . how this author sells books is beyond me. I wish I could get my money back.
 Belly Laughs !!! Fun Read all the Way To The End!!!! November 18, 2008
I'm a Crusie Fan from the beginning and have to say this is my FAVORITE!
 Mixed Feelings November 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed parts of this book. Agnes is a hoot. She's a no-nonsense, cooking with butter woman who learns to embrace the fact that she's not nice, but is, as her BFF Lisa Livia tells her, in fact a litle crazy. But in a good way. I enjoyed watching Agnes mend her violent ways and browbeat people into submission with good food. I wanted to attend the flamingo wedding and sleep in Agnes' lovely house. I liked that part of the book.
I even liked Shane the hitman who really is a hitman, albeit for the government. Crusie and Mayer don't wimp out on that one.
What I didn't like was the stereotypical portrayal of Italian-Americans as mobsters. Here's why.
Today, too many people associate Italian-Americans (most of us hardworking people who helped make this country great) with criminals. It offends me that this book enforces the stereotype. On a regular basis, people comment on my very Italian last name and ask me about the Sopranos or the Corleonis, inferring or outright accusing my law-abiding family of being involved in crime. They think they're being funny and clever, but really they're being insensitive bigots. I cannot think of another ethnicity or race that is still an acceptable target for such slurs in mass media.
In reality, organized crime is 1) not limited to the Italian mafia, and 2)not about glamour, family loyalty, silly names, and big weddings. It's ugly, corrupt, and it destroys people, the victims and the victimizers.
While readers certainly see some aspects of this in Crusie and Mayer's book, I must still condemn their decision to TREAT THE MOB AS AN APPROPRIATE SUBJECT FOR A LIGHTHEARTED COMEDIC ROMP, no matter how well-written. I seriously doubt they would write a similar romance about gang warfare in Los Angeles.
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