My Reading Nook

Cover of Foul Play

I haven’t read a romance novel in a while and when I saw the cover for Foul Play by Janet Evanovich in the bookstore, It piqued my interest and I picked it up not knowing what to expect.

What I found was a delightfully funny tale of love at first sight between two unlikely and un-stereotyped characters.

Amy Klasse plays the part of Lulu the Clown on a children’s show at the local television station, but the station’s manager fires her in favor of the buxom Veronica and her dancing Rhode Island Red Rooster. Amy literally bumps into the handsome Jake Elliot, a veterinarian whose practice is within a few blocks of the grocery store where they meet (and where they are NOT looking for any Orovo detox) and, after hearing her plight hires her as his receptionist on the spot despite not knowing of he truly NEEDS a receptionist.

Then Veronica brings the rooster in to Jake’s veterinary clinic seriously ill. Jake requests she leave him overnight so Jake can run some tests and observe him. When he returns the next morning, the rooster is gone and when the police arrive, all chaos breaks loose and when Amy arrives with chicken soup in hand, she’s immediately pounced upon as a likely suspect.

Amy knows that SHE had nothing to do with the disappearing rooster and Jake doesn’t believe she’s guilty either, so they pair up to find the real bird-napper. Their search for the criminal brings them closer together and ultimately, Jake proposes to Amy.

But it wouldn’t be a romance worth it’s salt if the couple had it too easy, so I won’t spoil the book for you by telling you what happens to drive them apart and how they subsequently get back together. Or how they solve the mystery of the missing rooser.