Nice Girls Finish Last: A Robin Hudson Mystery

by Sparkle Hayter

Book Overview

Robin Hudson, a reporter for the All News Network, overcomes a loathsome boss and a dead-end career when she discovers that the murder of her gynecologist may be connected to random shootings at her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140245162
• ISBN13: 9780140245165
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

What a great read and character... I'll be reading the rest

Some time back, someone recommended Sparkle Hayter to me as an author. She writes in the female amateur detective genre, much like Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. I was low on recreational reading material, so I picked up Nice Girls Finish Last. I think I've found another favorite author...The main protagonist in this series is Robin Hudson. She's a reporter for a large news network, and she's part of the "Special Reports" division. That would be the group that does stories on alien abductions and stuff. She's not thrilled with this assignment, but she's stuck with it. A doctor in her work building is found murdered, and it looks like there might be an element of S & M involved. The news editor wants Hudson to package the story as an S & M killing, even though she thinks it might have nothing to do with that. She starts investigating on her own, but unfortunately all the guys in her work and personal life are also getting shot at (she was supposed to have an appointment with the doctor that got killed later that evening). The police see her as the common thread, but she can't figure out why for the life of her. And it might be a short life if she can't get it solved quickly...The character is single and cynical, loves the big city and her job, but hates her boss. A real modern woman. The dialogue and writing is sharp and witty, and I got into the story and the characters pretty easily. The book is pretty short, so it's not much of a time investment to read. Well worth picking up if you want to indulge your "guilty pleasures"... :-)

WOW!

I love Robin Hudson. She's beautiful, quirky and red-headed to boot. She's got an exciting life and has such original ideas...like planting poison ivy in all of her window boxes to make anyone who breaks in easy to identify or using a spray glue gun as a weapon of choice (not to mention the epilady!) Her family members are not unlike my own, particularly Aunt Mo. I adored the fast-paced, unusual, hilarious S & M plot. Ms. Hayter's talent with wisecracks and word play is priceless. The description of Robin's evil neighbor's robe as 'looking like it was made from teddy bear pelts' had me rolling! What a fabulous description! It's worth buying this book just to get to know the unique characters. Thanks for a super read, Ms. Hayter. Keep 'em coming!

Hayter Nails It

A surprisingly complex book that uses farce to explore the conflicting desires to be a 'good girl' and make nice, and to fight back. Nobody does these conflicts better, or funnier, than Hayter. How does a girl keep control when chaos erupts around her? Does a whip help? Laugh out loud funny, leaving a lot to think about later.

I laughed out loud!

This is just a great comic mystery. I loved it

Very Funny Mystery

Every once in a blue moon an author like this comes around, and I'm thankful it is blue moon time. This is the first book by Sparkle Hayter (love the name) that I have laughed my way through, but it will not be the last. Robin is the perfect woman of the 90's. She faces her problems with her new positive attitude and her weapons of choice - an epilady and poison ivy. The mystery is interesting, the humor superb and Sparkle a keeper. Erma Arthur, Reading Forum Assistant, MSN