BOOK OF THE DAY: Pet Sitter by Amy Eyrie and Alix Sloan

Pet Sitter: A Jenna Stack Mystery (Jenna Stack Mysteries)

by Amy Eyrie and Alix Sloan

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

When criminology student Jenna Stack finally breaks up with her cheating boyfriend Liam, she finds herself broke, single and technically homeless.

Thanks to her best friend Dave and his pet sitting business Tails of the City, Jenna secures temporary housing and a way to make some extra cash. She also comes across a mystery that puts her life in peril.

With varying degrees of help and interference from an eccentric mentor, neurotic client, hipster hacker, arrogant cop and enigmatic FBI agent, Jenna must face her fear and trust her instincts to solve the crime and save the day.

AUTHOR BIO

Los Angeles based Amy Eyrie & New York based Alix Sloan met in 2001 and became lifelong friends through their shared interests in literature, film, astrology and a really good laugh. Over a breakfast visit in May 2011, the two pals got the crazy idea to write a novel together long distance. While both had written for multiple personal and commercial projects separately, neither had worked on such a large-scale collaboration. Several edits, countless phone calls, dozens of logistical mishaps and sixteen months later the two completed “Pet Sitter: A Jenna Stack Mystery,” the first in a series of novels following the adventures of Jenna, her family and friends. Visit petsitterbook.com to learn more about the authors

REVIEWS

5.0 out of 5 stars Sassy narrator who gets the job done - too bad about the love life September 19, 2012

By Rebecca Borden

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I love this book. A quick and sassy read. I don't usually go for self-published although this one is. It was referred to me by a friend of one of the authors. The narrative zips along, the scenes are in only-in-NYC locations - Central Park at night perhaps the most memorable. Jenna Stack is broke but sooo not down and out, a funny, observant, smart pet sitter, who seems to frolic with her best friend as often as with the pets, and she stumbles onto some big trouble. The love interest(s?) kept me guessing, although I found Jenna a little prudish in this department. Her distrust of snakes as pets is warranted - would like to see that snake scene on film. This book would make a good tv show episode, with her racing around the city in good looking boots.

5.0 out of 5 stars Nancy Drew meets Law and Order September 25, 2012

By BeckyFord

Format:Kindle Edition

What a fun romp of a book! Jenna Stack is a young, feisty, criminology-lesson magnet who finds herself in situation after situation resulting in all manner of mayhem and fabulousness. The pet sitting context is funny and puts the Jenna into the kinds of exotic places a 20-something New Yorker would never be in. A very clever device resulting in cat ladies, precious pups and a reptile of two. The main mystery resolves with a thrill - like a scene from Clue on steroids! - and there are just enough loose ends and potentially long arching plot lines to make you crave the next one in what I hope is a long series.

My first e-book and Kindle and a real page flicker. I ran out of power at one point and was so rapt I sat uncomfortably tethered to an outlet with my iPad charging so I could keep reading. It was that good.