Search - Cooked Goose (Savannah Reid, Bk 4)

Savannah Reid is asked by her ex-boss asks her to be his daughter's personal bodyguard, as she is the prime target of a vicious cop killer. Will she be able to bring a killer home for the holidays...?

Really enjoyed this one! Set around Christmastime in California. 4th in the Savannah Reid mystery series.

"Blue-eyed" & "big-boned" private detective Savannah Reid took the mystery scene by storm in Just Desserts, Bitter Sweets, & Killer Calories. Now the sexy, Southern-born heroine with the black belt in karate is back, keeping the streets of exclusive San Carmelita, California, safe while indulging both her passion for food and her appetite for solving crime..."

From Publishers Weekly: "It's hard not to like Savannah Reid, a large woman with appetites, emotions and attitudes to match. The pseudonymous McKevett's fourth book about Savannah raises some serious issues about the crime of rape and its victims, but the mix of this theme with Savannah's winsome character and the recipes included at the back of the book is uneasy. Savannah, working as a PI after being fired from the police force in the fictional California seaside town of San Carmelita, is hired by a shopping mall to catch the "Santa Rapist," a man wearing a fake white beard who has attacked six women in the mall's parking lot. The first man she disables with a hard kick to the ornaments turns out to be a legitimate store Santa, and the investigation goes downhill from there. Margie Bloss, the teenaged daughter of the odious police chief who fired Savannah, is a student in a self-defense class that Savannah teaches; when Margie is herself attacked and some of the town's cops begin to die, the identity of the rapist/killer becomes so obvious that readers may lose interest in a hurry. McKevitt has done better before and, hopefully, will again. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --

Excellent read...could not put it down!

#4 in the Savannah Reid series. A good mystery.

Love this series.