Cross Your Heart and Hope He Dies by Jenny Elder Moke (2026)
Had a great laugh-out-loud time with this sharp witted romcom mystery, top loaded with rich, obnoxious characters whom you feel like you've hated forever.
At first I included the book's unlikely sleuth, publishing exec Juliette Winters as one of the obnoxious ones. A take-no-prisoners, suffer-no-fools force to be reckoned with she's a fierce, type-A achiever whose abrasive personality was forged, for better or worse, by a toxic upbringing at the hands of her psychoanalyst parents. And now her best laid plans to save the financially failing publisher she works for have literally disappeared. She'd pinned her hopes on an explosive, tell-all manuscript just finished by a ruthless CEO shark......until he dropped dead of a heart attack while someone made off his would-be bestseller..
Here's where the real fun begins, when it appears the CEO's heart failure may have been engineered on purpose. Juliette, well equipped with a rapier sense of humor and looks to die for, barrels her way through a host of suspects who orbited around the CEO., all of them with valid motives. In the process of collecting clues, she also collects an ally in Dr. Charlie Hawkins, whom commitment-averse Juliette had previously rejected as a dull 'Dr. Dud'. But as the plot thickens, so do romantic sparks fly hot and high between the love-'em-and-leave-'em, normally hard-hearted Juliette and the sweet, kind and undeniably hunky Charlie.
A thoroughly delightful, funny read, with a climax between Juliette and the guilty party that manages to become both harrowing and hilarious all at the same time.....not to mention the romance that slowly, surely (and cutely) makes its way to up to incendiary status. 4 stars for sure. (****)
At first I included the book's unlikely sleuth, publishing exec Juliette Winters as one of the obnoxious ones. A take-no-prisoners, suffer-no-fools force to be reckoned with she's a fierce, type-A achiever whose abrasive personality was forged, for better or worse, by a toxic upbringing at the hands of her psychoanalyst parents. And now her best laid plans to save the financially failing publisher she works for have literally disappeared. She'd pinned her hopes on an explosive, tell-all manuscript just finished by a ruthless CEO shark......until he dropped dead of a heart attack while someone made off his would-be bestseller..
Here's where the real fun begins, when it appears the CEO's heart failure may have been engineered on purpose. Juliette, well equipped with a rapier sense of humor and looks to die for, barrels her way through a host of suspects who orbited around the CEO., all of them with valid motives. In the process of collecting clues, she also collects an ally in Dr. Charlie Hawkins, whom commitment-averse Juliette had previously rejected as a dull 'Dr. Dud'. But as the plot thickens, so do romantic sparks fly hot and high between the love-'em-and-leave-'em, normally hard-hearted Juliette and the sweet, kind and undeniably hunky Charlie.
A thoroughly delightful, funny read, with a climax between Juliette and the guilty party that manages to become both harrowing and hilarious all at the same time.....not to mention the romance that slowly, surely (and cutely) makes its way to up to incendiary status. 4 stars for sure. (****)
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