Book Reviews of Agnes and the Hitman

Crusie's best book to date, better than the first collaboration with Mayer. It has the exact right amount of thrill, kisses and funny. It reads very quick and gets better with every read. The chapter headers (snippets of Agnes' cooking column), are so funny I read them aloud to my husband. Makes me want to make pecan pancakes from scratch!

I think I'll read it again tonight...

Jennifer Crusie has created Cranky Agnes, a woman with a loser finance', a money pit of a house, a wedding to pull off for her god-daughter, a hitman lover, and his protective mob uncle. This is an enother extremely enjoyable book for those who like their female protagonist to have the guts to keep people from rolling right over them. If you liked Faking It, Bet Me, or Manhunting, you will like Agnes and the Hitman too.

Book is a hoot. I was in stiches both times I've read it. This is my favorite Crusie book so far.

Was not sure about this book at first but it grows on you and ends up being quite a good read. I found it entertaining and really enjoyed reading what was thrown at Agnes constantly from the attempts on her to the way she handles each crisis. A few minor twists and turns that kept me wondering and a crazy family that we all collect.

Probably one of the best books I've read! Couldn't read it in public as I was laughing too hard and people would stare! Pulled me in right from the beginning and kept me going until the end. Highly recommended!!

I was already a big Crusie fan, but the collaboration between Crusie and Mayer is witty, fast-paced and full of fast paced action and romance.

In this book, Crusie brings another dog, Rhett, to life, plenty of low lifes and a handsome man named Shane.

This is a book that I thoroughl enjoyed! I love Jennifer Crusie's books and this is no exception. I find Agnes to be wonderfully humorous and her beau is HOT HOT HOT! I also love that this book has a really good plot and loveable characters that remind me alot of my own dysfunctional family. Great light read!

Often for chick lit books like this, the contrived plot takes away the enjoyment. Here, although the plot is complicated, this book is just plain fun and I would recommend it. "Good things happen to good people, and bad things happen to bad people -- that is what fiction means."

Jennifer Crusie is a talented writer who can pull off the snappiest dialogue and some of the best humor/romance I have ever read. That's why I don't understand why she has to use foul language and explicit sex to get her point across. This story got lots of good reviews, but I couldn't get past the first 50 pages--the negatives turned me off before I could find the positives. Just not my cup of tea.

This book was a quick read and very enjoyable. Agnes is an interesting protagonist with a sharp wit. I zoomed through this book and was smiling the whole time.

Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer should write more books together. The two they have read were both excellent books. Very enjoyable. Would recommend to almost anyone.

A very funny romance and mystery. It was hard to put down once I started reading it.

Hillarious and fun. A good mystery and romance.

Agnes Crandall's promblems are roiling to a boil. First a dog-napper invades her kitchen, seriously hampering her attempts to put on a wedding that she's staked her entire net worth on. Then a man clims through her bedroom window to save her, "Shane" (no last name) may be Agnes's hero, but he's also a professional hitman--so he's no stranger to trouble himself.

Between a rival who wants to take him out and an uncle who may have lost five million bucks in Agnes's basement. Shane's plate is plenty full. Soon Agnes and Shane are tangled up with the lowlifes after the money, a gang of Southern mob wedding guests, a dog named Rhett, and -- most dangerous of all ---each other.

This book made me laugh from the incredulous beginning to hilarious end! I gasped for breath as I read the funniest passages out loud to my sister, and bought the audio book so we could listen to it in the car. Wonderful read!

Crusie and Mayer get it together this time, in a slow-starting story about a cranky food columnist with a penchant for bopping people with frying pans, a flamingo-studded wedding, and a psycho bitch grandmother-of-the-bride who may or may not be sitting on five million dollars in cash.

An old mobster supposely killed by is wife reappears at his granddaughters wedding. The murdering grandmother trys everything from cancalling the wedding cake to bribing the preacher to stop the wedding. Agnes, puts on a wedding dispite several murders and even finds love.

I want to start out by saying that this book was so funny that I was laughing practically every page. The romance in it is good, but it doesn't seem like the main point of the story, and I was okay with that. The fact that Agnes gets together with the Hitman is not a big surprise, as much as how they deal with each other is. Remembering parts of this book still makes me grin. I think every girl should have a Shane (the Hitman) in their lives.

If I hadn't checked this book out of the library, I would probably pick it up and re-read it right now, just because writing up the review makes me remember how much I loved it. Reading this book also has made me a Jennifer Crusie fan (and although I read her and Bob Mayer's first collaboration "Don't Look Down", I'd still recommend this one more than that one.)

A fun, light read!

Good book, good read. Not as good as some of Jennifer Crusie's books.

Winning combination of wit, action, and romance. Crusie and Mayer create wonderful stories. Originality and sparkling wit.

What does a Sarcastic Food Columinist and a Hitman have in Common? You need to read the book to find out. Lots of dead bodies and pink flamingos add to an intresting weekend wedding. The book has many twists and secrets. The characters are very likable. Though you are not routing for all the villians, you still like some of them.

A very good read.

Very engrossing book. Not your run of the mill, boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl back. Highly recommend.

very cute, nice story, good characters, fun read that kept me interested.

Agnes Crandall writes the “Cranky Agnes” cooking column and is engaged to Taylor, an up-and-coming local chef. The two of them have just worked out a deal to purchase Two Rivers from Brenda Fortunato Dupres. Brenda is the mother of her best friend, Lisa Livia (aka LL) growing up. Part of the deal is that Agnes and Taylor will cater the wedding for Maria – Brenda’s granddaughter and Lisa Livia’s daughter.

This will be Agnes and Taylor’s first big catering event at the home which is on the river and has a barn for the catering events.

One evening, a young local comes to Agnes’ home and tries to kidnap her dog. Agnes uses the nearest weapon she has at hand to stop him – a frying pan. (This is not the first time she’s conked a guy on the head with a frying pan, either.) In the struggle, the intruder falls through a previous covered-up door in the kitchen and fatally falls to the floor of the previously hidden basement.

Shane is a government agent and is called in to help protect Agnes by his Uncle Joey, who is also a good friend of Agnes’.

While protecting Agnes, the two of them need to figure out why people keep trying to break into Agnes’ home and Agnes’ has to work to ensure that Maria’s wedding takes place at her home because now Brenda is trying to set things up so that the wedding will get moved and then Agnes will have to come up with three months of actual mortgage payments or be foreclosed on.

I enjoyed this book better than the last Crusie/Mayer collaboration that I read (Don’t Look Down.) The action and romance is better written and the story is a little easier to follow even though much of it is pretty far fetched.

This book turned out to be one of my all-time favorites. Every character is just a bit nuts in their own way. It's one of those books that's hard to read in public because you're trying not to laugh out loud. I'd recommend it to anyone with a sense of humor. (Though I did not like the first Jennifer Crusie/Bob Mayer attempt)

I had fun reading this. It was smart, funny and sexy. It's great when you find yourself laughing out loud while reading a book, although if you are in public people look at you kind of weird. Oh well.

Very Enjoyable.

What a joy of a read! I couldn't wait to get their next book, but it wasn't a sequel!!
I laughed my butt off reading this one!!

A fun read, alittle different for Jennifer Crusie but I enjoyed it very much.

This is typical Crusie, fast and funny.

I very much enjoyed it.

If you're looking for a romantic comedy, with a some suspense thrown in, this is a nice one. Crusie and Mayer have written together before and do so well. It's a fast read, good for when you just want to escape for a few hours. If you like Crusie's other books, you'll probably like this one, too.

My second favorite Crusie novel next to Bet Me. Great dialogue between characters and zany circumstances that just make it fun.

I loved this book! Talk about LOL funny! Agnes and her temper were a hoot. It was funny how things just kept snowballing out of control no matter what they did. I also like how Shane "fell" for Agnes despite being a commitment-phobic hitman in the beginning. Terrific read!