Synopses & Reviews
Twenty-eight-year-old Tomi Reyes is a documentary filmmaker who moonlights as a receptionist to pay the bills. It's a pretty easy gig ? until she receives an unexpected promotion, and her somewhat interesting life goes totally insane. For starters, her new boss, Scott Martin, morphs from nice guy into creepy dictator in the space of, like, five seconds. Then Justin Thyme, Tomi's occasional boyfriend, is found murdered and stuffed inside his refrigerator. Before Tomi can get over the shock, her friend Whim meets the same gruesome fate. Tomi has a sneaking suspicion that new-boss-Scott has a hand in all of this, but the evidence to both of the murders is pointing to her She is wondering how she'll look in an orange jumper, when her childhood pal is assigned to the case. Nicholas ?Nickels? Turino, is now an FBI agent, and a hot one at that. When the killer starts stalking Tomi ? going as far as turning her fridge into her waiting tomb ? the not-so-swift hand of justice drives Tomi to act. She sets out to unmask the killer herself or die trying. Seriously underdressed for such a cold-blooded death, Tomi is determined to live. With its larger-than-life heroine and delightfully sarcastic tone, Spitfire offers readers a refreshing alternative to the ho-hum crime novels crowding today's bookshelves.
Synopsis
Tomi Reyes is a documentary filmmaker who moonlights as a receptionist to pay the bills. It's an easy gig -- until she gets promoted, and her somewhat interesting life goes totally insane. For starters, her new boss, Scott Martin, morphs from nice guy to creepy dictator in the space of five seconds. Then, the bodies of her friends start turning up in their refrigerators. Tomi may suspect Scott, but all of the evidence is pointing to her She's wondering what to pack for prison, when a childhood pal Nicholas "Nickels" Turino is the (very hot) FBI agent assigned to the case. When the killer sets his sights on her, she realizes she'll have to unmask the psycho herself or die trying.