Tara Sivec

After war veteran Kennedy O'Brien returned home from Afghanistan and caught her husband in bed with the nanny, she lost her faith in all things male. So she started Fool Me Once Investigations to stick it to the man—because there's no better bounty hunter than a woman scorned. Her latest job is a wild dog-chase to slap cuffs on a bail jumper turned Chihuahua thief, but thanks to her meddling family, Kennedy will have to put up with a partner. And it's about the last man she'd ever pick: her cheating ex-husband's best friend, Griffin Crawford. As gorgeous as he is unwelcome, Griffin is a pesky (if scorching hot) reminder that Kennedy will need help to catch her man—and to open up her heart again.

Shame on You

Army veteran, Kennedy O'Brien and her two friends Paige and Lorelei have opened a full service PI office called Fool Me Once.  Kennedy occasionally takes on jobs for her father and uncle who own Buddy's Bail Bonds.  Their latest bail jumper is alien fearing Martin McFadden who not only skipped out on his bond but also stole a Chihuahua named Tinkerdoodle. Unbeknownst to Kennedy, her father has also hired her former husband's best friend Griffin Crawford to work with her on the case.  The only thing slowing down the hijinks ensuing during the chase is the attraction the Kennedy and Griffin share.

Shame on You is a cute romantic suspense that is too short to include much romance or suspense.  The story is fun with lots of laugh out loud moments, but it is completely over the top and farfetched.  Also, the length of the book doesn't allow time for the development of characters or the mystery.  Overall, with just a few more pages, Shame on You could have been a really good comedic romantic suspense. 

Lynn Braden

Army veteran, Kennedy O'Brien and her two friends Paige and Lorelei have opened a full service PI office called Fool Me Once.  Kennedy occasionally takes on jobs for her father and uncle who own Buddy's Bail Bonds.  Their latest bail jumper is alien fearing Martin McFadden who not only skipped out on his bond but also stole a Chihuahua named Tinkerdoodle. Unbeknownst to Kennedy, her father has also hired her former husband's best friend Griffin Crawford to work with her on the case.  The only thing slowing down the hijinks ensuing during the chase is the attraction the Kennedy and Griffin share.

Shame on You is a cute romantic suspense that is too short to include much romance or suspense.  The story is fun with lots of laugh out loud moments, but it is completely over the top and farfetched.  Also, the length of the book doesn't allow time for the development of characters or the mystery.  Overall, with just a few more pages, Shame on You could have been a really good comedic romantic suspense. 

Samantha Emery

I was rather disappointed in this book in all honesty!

I loved the Chocolate Lovers series! Loved it!

But this book just left me vaguely annoyed.

Kennedy O’Brien found out her husband was cheating, and dislikes her husbands best friend Griffin Crawford, (who was apparently also one of her Best Friends) as she thinks he knew about the affair all along.(although at one point she says she found out that Griffin knew all along a few months after she kicked the ex out, then literally a couple of pages later, she is thinking that the very day she discovered he ex cheating, she went to Griffin, and then overheard him on the phone, telling he ex to keep quiet about it all and not tell her!)

The thing is, I just did not like Kennedy!

Am not sure where she is supposed to have met her 2 best friends, who she started her agency with, they seem to have no history! it is mentioned that as a teen, young adult she hung around with her brothers, cousins, Griffin and her EX, as they were in the army or similar and all liked to go off and do manly things I suppose like wrestle bears while naked and covered in war paint. Ok, I am just assuming that, but it is mentioned enough times how none girly she is! 

And given her complete derision for anything girly why she would be friends with these two other women is beyond me!

Was just a major plot contrivance to be able to get 3 books out of this I think!

She is an awful mother! Implying her 12 year old daughter is slutty and looks like a streetwalker! Clearly preferring the younger girl over the older one, as she had failed to make the older one exactly like her as apparently she knows "You're not supposed to force your children to be like you, but come on, what parent doesn't at least try?"  Well, any other decent parent!! Ugh

But that is ok, because soon she manages to get the kids out of the way, when the crappy ex who has not seen them in ages, shows up and she chucks her kids at them, then keeps telling him to keep them longer so she can sort out her sex life basically!

There was no depth to the characters at all. I have no sense of who Griffin was as a person, other then a nice ass in jeans and rode a Harley! And what I knew about Kennedy, I did not like!

It all felt a bit forced, ridiculous and plain daft!

Nicole Goldstein

Sarah Kessler

Lawyer Lorelei Warner finds her perfect life perfectly boring, but when a routine subpoena delivery turns into a murder investigation, sparks will fly between Lorelei and pompous, but good-looking private investigator Dallas Osborne.

Shame on Him

Ex-model Paige McCarty is fed up with being just a pretty face. After her ex-husband's gambling problem left her royally screwed and tragically shoeless, she started Fool Me Once Investigations with her best friends, Lorlei and Kennedy, to prevent other women from being similarly played and dismayed. The job: act as bait for a cheating husband. The target: Matt Russo. The case should be as easy as getting a man's attention--and Paige has never had trouble with that. The problem is Matt--in all his nerdy-hot glory--turns out to be not such a scumbag after all. And when the case hits closer to home than Paige could ever have imagined--landing her in a face-off with the mob--she wonders if taking the job just to prove that she has a brain maybe wasn't her best idea. This second outing for the Fool Me Once team follows in the same fun, feisty footsteps as bestselling author Tara Sivec's Shame on You.

Shame on You

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