McNally's Risk

I had never heard of this series, but my mom brought this mystery (the third installment?) to the beach for her beach book club pick. In which we bring a favorite book from the past year to inflict on each other. McNally is the bomb! I have a major crush on Archie McNally, and I can’t wait to read m......more

It took me a hot minute to wrap this one up. Meanwhile falling 2-3 books behind my GR goal which I start to pay far more attention to in the waning days of the calendar. Here’s to never actually reaching my reading goals! As for Archy, he is much the same and that is a good thing. If I knew him IRL,......more

Archy, employed by his dad's legal firm, is asked to background check a young lady that appears to be engaged soon to a wealthy woman's son. The problem is that our hero becomes enamored of the gorgeous girl who likes to play the field. Throw in a murder of a notorious local artist, and Archy is up......more

"It would be indelicate to describe those gifts that qualified her for employment in a topless car wash. Suffice to say that she was well-qualified." What an unexpectedly pleasant read! The third novel in Lawrence Sanders' Archy McNally series, McNally's Risk (1993) is a light, breezy, entertaining b......more

Floridian James Bond There were some peculiar aspects to this novel, primarily the lead character who used British English terms despite seemingly spent his life on the east coast of the USA. The thesaurus driven dialog was funny at times, it was a fine mystery along with the family dysfunction it cer......more