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    Foxy Roxy: A Roxy Abruzzo Mystery

    By Nancy Martin

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    Big truck, big dog, big hair. Bad attitude.

    Roxy Abruzzo, bestseller Nancy Martin's latest creation, is the sexy, streetwise niece of a Pittsburgh crime boss, and she's trying to stay on the straight and narrow . . . most of the time. But now and then temptation is just too much for hot-blooded Roxy. As she prowls the mean streets looking for architectural treasures, she can't help swiping an ancient Greek statue that's not exactly hers. Then the statue's owner, heir to a billion-dollar steel fortune, gets himself killed, and the police investigation sweeps Roxy into a mess that requires all of her wits and wiles to escape. All this plus a dotty grand dame, a slippery lawyer, and an avaricious socialite or two makes for a lethal combination of danger and desperation—with Roxy in the middle.

    With her wicked sense of humor and a devilishly clever premise, author of the beloved Blackbird Sisters mysteries, Nancy Martin has started another outstanding mystery series with Foxy Roxy.*

    *(Previously published as Our Lady of Immaculate Deception)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJan 18, 2011
    ISBN9781429992732
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    Foxy Roxy: A Roxy Abruzzo Mystery
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    Nancy Martin

    Winner of the 2009 Lifetime Achievement award for mystery writing from Romantic Times magazine, Nancy Martin announces the release of the 8th book in her popular Blackbird Sisters mystery series, NO WAY TO KILL A LADY. Set in Philadelphia, the story features three heiresses whose parents have run off with their trust funds. Now thay have a chance to regain their wealth when their aunt, "Madcap Maddy" Blackbird dies in a volcano and leaves her estate to the sisters. But Nora Blackbird soon discovers all the treasures in Aunt Maddy's house have disappeared...information that leads her to believe maybe Maddy didn't die the way everybody thinks. Author of 48 pop fiction novels in mystery, suspense, historical and romance genres, Nancy created The Blackbird Sisters in 2002--- mysteries about three impoverished heiresses who adventure in couture and crime --as if "Agatha Christie had wandered onto the set of Sex and The City." Nominated for the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery of 2002, HOW TO MURDER A MILLIONAIRE won the RT award for Best First Mystery and was a finalist for the Daphne DuMaurier Award. Currently, she is at work on the Roxy Abruzzo mystery series for St. Martin's Minotaur. In 2009 she received the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award for mystery writing. Nancy lives in Pittsburgh, serves on the board of Sisters in Crime and is a founding member of Pennwriters.

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    • 2/5
      Our Lady of Immaculate Deception was a book chosen for my book club and the first book that I had read by Martin. Martin delivers a very humorous book with more than a few twists and turns. Roxy is a very comical character who gets herself into some tight situations but she has a big heart and tries to do the right thing even for strangers finding themselves in need of her help. Roxy has some interesting friends who help her out and help to make the book even more interesting with Nooch, Rooney, Flynn, Loretta, and Sage. The book's mystery was pretty well set up because there were a lot of characters who wanted Julius dead. I did like how Martin provided the reader with multiple points of view giving readers a glimpse into secondary characters like Arden who helped flesh out the Hyde family. Overall Our Lady of Immaculate Deception gives the reader a mystery that also contains humor, family drama, a touch of romance, with a little bit of fun.
    • 3/5
      With a nod to her Blackbird Sisters series, Martin introduces us to Roxy Abruzzo, a slightly mob-connected, sex-obssessed, architectural salvage specialist. She and soon to be off parole assistant, Nooch, stumble onto a murder mystery after "salvaging" what turns out to be a priceless Greek statue from the Hyde estate. There are only so many incarnations of Stephanie Plum possible and although the mystery was fine, I don't know if I'll bother checking in with Roxy again.
    • 4/5
      Though I was disappointed to find out that Nancy Martin wouldn't be doing any more Blackbird books in the forseeable future, I was definitely looking forward to her new series beaturing Michael's half-sister, Roxy. Devoured it in a day. While it may take a while to warm up to Roxy, a wise-ass, smart-mouth single mom she's only one in a string of fascinating Pittsburgh characters I'm looking forward to getting to know as the series continues. The problem, now, is waiting patiently for book two.
    • 2/5
      This is the first in a new series by Martin and features Roxy Arbruzzo. Arbruzzo runs a not-so-successful architectural salvage company and must earn money from other sources to make ends meet. She is given some salvage rights to the Hyde mansion after Mrs. Hyde burns the place down in a fit of pique. Among the things she takes away is a statue hidden away in the back yard and which she was not authorized to take. When Julius Hyde is murdered, the police are looking at everyone with a connection to Hyde and that includes Roxy. The family also wants their Greek antiquity back.I started this book with a great deal of anticipation (choosing this over Anne Perry's newest). Normally, I love new series. But this one is flawed on so many levels that I doubt that I’ll try the second in the series. The author spends almost no time in the beginning of the book to introduce her main character and allowing the reader to like her. She doesn’t even give us a description of the woman until around page 100. She also introduced many characters too quickly. I would expect to be introduced to ongoing characters, like Nooch and Rooney, but she also introduced us to every member of the Hyde family. By the time I figured out that I couldn’t even keep the Hyde brothers straight, I didn’t care about any of the characters, including Roxy.Finally, the book is being touted as “humorous,” but like other reviewers, I found myself asking humor? What humor? I understand that everyone sees humor in different ways, but I expected to at least occasionally smile. That didn’t happen. Perhaps I was too busy trying to figure out which Hyde brother the author was talking about to find the author humorous.Martin had such potential with Roxy, but fell so short. Perhaps later additions to the series will be better. Let's hope so.
    • 2/5
      Our Lady of Immaculate Deception - Nancy MartinThe synopsis of this book made it sound as if it were right up my alley. I love the Stephanie Plum character that Janet Evanovich writes about so when I saw Roxy Abruzzo, owner of Bada Bling Architectural Salvage, being compared to Stephanie Plum, I figured I would be in for a treat. Add to this that it was also supposed to be about the mob in Philadelphia and it appeared that it would have some interesting secondary characters, and there were even hints of it being funny. I thought I would be in reader’s heaven. I was wrong and so was the synopsis. Roxy is nothing like Stephanie or any other woman protagonist that I have read about lately. There are several story lines and at times it’s a bit difficult to remember just which is the main one - is it about the theft of a priceless salvaged artifact or is it about the murder of the multi-millionaire Julius Hyde who owned it; maybe the machinations of the millionaires family around his estate, can it be about the unscrupulous lawyer who seems to have his finger in every pie or is it about his drug addled art expert niece, or the fact that Roxy‘s mobbed up uncle wants her to work for “The Family“? This novel is all over the map with the numerous stories going on.I realize that a lot of my dissatisfaction was with the fact that this is a first book in the series and so the author may be trying to set us up for the future books, but this book has a dizzying array of characters, most of whom had nothing to do with pushing the plot forward. Roxy has the morals of an alley cat…which if written a little differently, could have been funny or even endearing. I realize that Ms Martin may have wanted to point out the fact that men having many one night stands can be an acceptable thing so a woman should be able to do the same thing without consequences, but Roxy keeps souvenirs from her one hour stands and unfortunately she just came off as being cheap. Even learning of her difficult childhood couldn’t seem to redeem Roxy in my mind. Since Roxy has a teenaged daughter, you might have thought the author may have taken a slightly different tack, but then again once you meet the daughter you see why the author chose to go the way she did. The daughter is quite obnoxious, but I assume that is typical bad girl teenage attitude. The story could have been interesting and even very funny if it hadn’t been flawed from the very start. On the very first page we meet Julius Hyde; the now deceased millionaire and his lover Kaylee. His wife walks in on one of their trysts and sets fire to the mansion to the tune of 85 million dollars in insurance money. Now I know things work a tad differently for the rich, but apparently unless I’ve misread something, Mrs. Hyde never even gets charged with arson. I can allow myself to suspend my disbelief for many things, but that just made me try to stretch a bit too far and I couldn’t do it.Don’t get me wrong, this is not a horrible book. I can even see Roxy becoming quite endearing in future books, if the hints in this one run true. But I’m afraid that many won’t have that burning desire to see what happens to Roxy, Sage, Nooch, Flynn, Loretta and Zack. I’m also afraid that with today’s economy people are going to start being a little pickier with their book choices and may not want to take a chance on another confusing book like this. Good luck and good reading!