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Deadly Gamble | 
| Author: Linda Lael Miller
Publisher: HQN Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 70596
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 3.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0373772009
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780373772001
ASIN: 0373772009
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
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Product Description
Mojo's got an uncanny knack for winning at slots, but her home sweet home is Bad-Ass Bert's Biker Saloon. She'd love to go undercover with an irresistibly hot cop, but he's got baggage as big as his biceps. Mojo survived a mysterious childhood tragedy, but she's never quite figured out who she really is or how to get on with her life. Now the wisecracking Mojo is seeing ghosts—the ectoplasmic kind— and turning up baffling clues to her real identity. And she'll need all her savvy and strange new talent to keep someone from burying her—and the truth—for keeps.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 I loved it! June 1, 2008
Cocoa Futch (Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thoroughly enjoyed it - couldn't put it down. Can't wait to get the next one.
 waywayway over-plotted March 12, 2008
Mary Ellen Snodgrass (hickory, nc United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This novel is much in need of pruning. The tie-up of loose ends becomes comic at the end.
 Great character March 6, 2008
Lisa (Oklahoma)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is my first book by this author and so I had no expectations coming in. I was overjoyed by this character and this book. Mojo Sheepshanks was everthing a female character needs to be. Tough, independent and a little vunerable. Deadly Gamble had a great mystery, wonderful secondary characters including the ghost cat, Chester and the basset hound, Russell. I will definitely order the next in this series and hope many more adventures of Mojo Sheepshanks will be forthcoming. This was a very entertaining and delightful and sometimes eerie read.
Mojo rocks! February 10, 2008
Theresa (Michigan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Loved this book. Mojo Sheepshanks is one on the most entertaining characters I've come across in recent years.
Mojo has so many things going against her, that it's a miracle she can function normally. As the secrets of her identity and her past come back to control her future, she is thrust into a mystery, as well as ghosts that appear without notice. She fears she's losing her mind, and the people that surround her can't argue with that.
Her family dynamic is a great element to this story. It shows that you don't have to have blood ties to really be siblings. The mother she's always known warns her to be careful, her ex is popping up to warn her, and bad things begin to happen.
With a new career ready to take off, the set up for book two is waiting. I can't wait until March to pick it up and dive into Mojo's next case. So many questions still linger from Deadly Gamble, that I've begun to read this book a second time in anticipation.
Linda Lael Miller has always had strong characters, but Mojo Sheepshanks is a breath of fresh air, and definetly a woman worth getting to know. The many layers of her character, and the charm of her sense of humor keep the reader entranced. She's the girl you want living next door!
 love Linda Miller's romantic westerns- HATE THIS BOOK January 5, 2008
Billy Goat Ranch (Hill Country, TX USA)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I love Linda Miller's western-based romances. I have read all of the ones I have found. I read them to escape from the bad stuff that makes up a lot of the world today - and to feel good! I grabbed this- because she wrote it and the cover appeared to be just that- another western romance.
But what the heck happened here??? It is like she read Janet Evonovich's 'How I Write' book, and tried to write like she does! Only it was a lot more gory- and not the side-splitting humor that Evonovich has. This was a bloodbath beginning to end- with a lot of loopholes left open for future books to solve. Every concievable plot and sub-plot is toss in for 'added appeal'. And the amount of romance is pretty close to pathethic, as is the setting- it could take place anywhere.
The plot? A woman sees- as a child- her parents murdered- is covered in blood- hides in order to escape... does not remember the details- is kidnapped by a well meaning woman. Has a bad marriage with a cheating husband. Is a medical transcriber who barely makes ends meet- but wait- she 'becomes' a privite detective with one of her how-to books... and is very bad and stumbling about it- but her sometime boyfriend undercover cop- hurting from a bad marriage has to save her at the last minute from being carved up from psyco women and half-brother. Oh, she has regular chats with the ghost of her dead husband, her dead cat, and in the end a murdered 7 year old girl. Oh, and dogs that eat lunchmeat with the wrappers or who get poisoned by accident because of course everyone is trying to kill the main character. Oh, and she has 2 sisters who are not 'really' related- one black and one a white former hooker....hmmmm
I am beyond annoyed that someone like Miller, who KNOWS how to write, and write WELL, would decide to shift into this sort of crap writing style (and I love Evonovich don't get me wrong, but she is probably the only one who can get away with it and make it truly funny). I will really be careful before I toss a book in my basket just because Miller wrote it!!
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