Hot Enough to Kill (Jolene Jackson Mystery Series)

By Paula Boyd

The mayor's dead, your mother's in jail, and you'd rather be anywhere but Kickapoo, Texas. Welcome to Jolene Jackson's world.It's bad enough that her 72-year-old mother's boyfriend got himself... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096747860X
• ISBN13: 9780967478609
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Diomo Books
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

side-splitting humor

Kickapoo, Texas. The name alone is enough to start you laughing. Add to that a purse swing widow who's romantic fling with the town's married Mayor is public knowledge due to his untimely murder, the widow's divorced daughter who must return to Kickapoo to bail Mom out of jail, a good looking sheriff who eyes the daughter with unsupressed interest, and a Dairy Queen full of gossipy characters, and you have a riot in the making. Paula Boyd had me in stitches with her tongue-in-cheek descriptions of life in a small town. This is a humorous first novel by a writer of great potential.

From The Midwest Book Review

5+ Stars, 5+ Laughs! "Hot Enough to Kill is a hoot and a half of rollicking good mystery! Jolene Jackson could take on any 'classic' female private eye and have her down for the count. Add her to the best set of characters next to the cast of an Emmy sitcom, nasty murder, and a small town Kickapoo, which while making me giggle, makes me want to move there. Do that, and you have THE BEST DANG NOVEL I'VE READ ALL YEAR! Has to be film adapated. Would make a delightful audiobook."

Side Splitting Humor --- Page Turning Action!

'Hot Enough to Kill' has it all! Sharp tongued Jolene Jackson and her purse swinging mother are a hilarious duo. But don't let that undermine the fact that this book is filled with all the right twists and turns of a great murder mystery! A must read!

A seriously funny mystery

New writer Paula Boyd is going to garner many fans with her fresh, funny, and suspense filled "Hot Enough to Kill." The denizens of the small (population 1,024) town of Kickapoo, Texas come alive and that includes the Mayor BigJohn who is dead when the story begins. Jolene Jackson, a forty-something, divorced mother of two grown children is forced to return to her long-ago-abandoned hometown. Her widowed mother, Lucille, is being held for questioning in the murder of His Honor. To Jolene's shock, she discovers that her widowed mother had been having an affair with the married town official. Jolene discovers many more secrets in this small town where everyone is supposed to know everyone else's business. Her snooping, puts her and her mother in grave danger. "Hot Enough to Kill" is a must read for those who like mysteries with a lot of humor. I'm looking forward to the continuing adventures of Jolene and her marvelous mother.

Uproariously funny

A new writer to watch. Paula Boyd has a fine grasp of dialogue and action. Not a dull moment in this book. Jolene Jackson returns home to bail her 72-year-old mother out of jail. Soon, bullets start flying faster than Jolene's mouth, if that's at all possible. Throw in a few hormones with Jolene's high school sweetheart and you've got a delicious recipe for a great read.