Pasta Imperfect

by Maddy Hunter

Book Overview

In the third novel of the laugh-out-loud Passport to Peril mystery series, Emily Andrew, Nana, and the gang from Iowa are off with a group of romance writers to Italy, where competition for a book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743482913
• ISBN13: 9780743482912
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Keeps getting better and better!

I loved this one EVEN more if that is at all possible! She has gotten me hooked onto a new kind of book! They are impossible to put down and downright laughable. I also had a person picked who I thought might have been our murderer, but was wrong this time! I can't wait for her new book to come out!!!

Another Winner!!!!!!

Maddy Hunter has won the triple crown with this latest and third adventure of what I hope will be a long series! Although the premise is consistent - Emily as a travel guide for a group of seniors - the story is fresh, entertaining and hysterically funny. Pasta Imperfect is all that Maddy Hunter's readers have come to enjoy and anticipate. The characters are so real that you're sure some of them must be the "crazy people down the street," and the heroine, Emily, is just like your best friend. Ms. Hunter added some major characters in this story that were not part of the senior travel group, and they were the perfect addition to the twists and turns of the story! Be careful if you read this book on an airplane or in a doctor's waiting room - your hysterical laughter might get annoying!

A Laugh a Minute Mystery

Emily Andrew has got to be the world's unluckiest travel agent. When she found a too good to be true deal to Italy, she lined up a group of fellow Iowans and away they went. Also along for the trip is a group of romance novel writers who, it turns out, are all willing to stab each other in the back for a chance in the spotlight. First Emily's luggage gets lost and then the hotel the group is staying in burns to the ground. Things are definitely getting off to a bad start. Then when word gets out that the publisher sponsoring the trip has decided to have a writing contest with the winner getting a book contract, one by one the romance writers start mysteriously turning up dead. What happens next turns out to be a laugh out loud funny adventure as we try to figure out who the murderer is. "Pasta Imperfect" is a fun and light mystery that will definitely leave you laughing, I know, because I still am.

This series just keeps getting better!

The third Passport to Peril mystery was well worth the wait! Emily, Nana and all those quirky Iowans are in Italy, along with a big group of romance writers. Of course, Emily's luggage is lost on the flight over, but it turns into a blessing when it arrives AFTER their hotel burns down. Of course, since nothing ever goes right for travel guide Emily Andrew, all the romance writers raid her suitcase, leaving her with nothing but the clothes on her back. To make up for the inconveneience of having their possesions burned to a crisp, the publisher sponsoring the trip announces a writing contest, and the winner gets a book contract. Before you can say purple penned prose three times fast, the "pre-published" romance writers start dropping like flies--and they're all found wearing Emily's new outfits! Maddy Hunter has done it again, I couldn't stop laughing while reading this book. The characters get better with every entry in the series, and the mystery had a great twist that I didn't see coming, though all the clues were there. I've been to some romance writing conventions, and she really captured the types of aspiring authors, which is not surprising considering Ms. Hunter published a few romances herself under a different name. The only complaint I have about PASTA IMPERFECT is that it came to an end. I can't wait to read the next one. There's a preview chapter at the end, it's called HULA DONE IT? and it's set (where else?) in Hawaii on a cruise ship. I can't wait to climb aboard!