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Overview

"In Laura Resnick's Doppelgangster, the New York actress is 'resting' between roles by working as a singing waitress at a Manhattan mob restaurant because wiseguys tip well. Then duplicated gangsters appear, bullets start flying, and it's up to Esther and her friend Max the Magician to fight Evil by stopping the gang war before it starts killing the wrong people. And if she has time, maybe Esther can actually keep a hot date with her hunky detective friend Lopez, who doesn't believe in magic. Yet. Unplug the phone and settle down for a fast and funny read."
New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney

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Publishers Weekly
This gleeful, clever sequel to 2006’s Disappearing Nightly teams up actress and singing waitress Esther Diamond with the magic-savvy but utterly unworldly Max the Magician and his slobbering canine familiar, Nelli, to discover how and why New York’s mobsters are being magically duplicated. Complicating matters is Esther’s suspicious would-be boyfriend, handsome Irish-Cuban police detective Connor Lopez, who would prefer a straightforward investigation involving neither Esther nor magic. Resnick introduces a colorful cast of gangsters and their associates, including a thrice-bereaved mob widow and an attractive young priest, as she spins a witty, fast-paced mystery around her convincingly self-absorbed chorus-girl heroine. Sexy interludes raise the tension between Lopez and Esther as she juggles magical assailants, her perennially distracted agent, her meddling mother, and wiseguys both friendly and threatening in a well-crafted, rollicking mystery. (Jan.)
From The Critics
Esther Diamond (Disappearing Nightly) is having a difficult week. The Off-Broadway show she's acting in is closing, and she just witnessed a murder at her waitressing job at a Mafia hangout in Little Italy. Before "Chubby" Charlie Chiccante died, he told Esther that he had seen his doppio, a perfect double and a portent of death. Soon, döppelgangers are plaguing New York's mobsters, their hangers-on, and their enemies, and Esther, lured in by her friendships with the local wiseguys and her budding relationship with a cop in the organized crime unit, finds herself in over her head. Fortunately, her friends Max, a 350-plus-year-old sorcerer, and Lucky Battistuzzi, an aging hit man, can help her stop the person behind the döppelgangers. VERDICT Fans of Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series will appreciate this series' lively heroine and the appealing combination of humor, mystery, and romance.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780756405953
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 1/5/2010
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Original
  • Pages: 400
  • Sales rank: 434,847
  • Series: Esther Diamond Series, #2
  • Product dimensions: 4.42 (w) x 6.84 (h) x 1.06 (d)
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  • Posted January 20, 2011

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    WISH ALL BOOKS WERE THIS GOOD

    BEST PART OF THE BOOK:
    Esther has forgotten her date w/Lopez & announces he's going to training for two weeks. Banter ensues:
    "So you were planning to wine and dine me tonight, get me into bed, and then abandon me for two weeks?"
    "That was the plan," he admitted.
    "I'm pretty sure that makes you a cad" I told him.
    He grinned. "I'm coming back. I just wante...d to mark my territory before I go."
    "Mark your territory?"
    "A woman who could forget I was coming over tonight might forget me completely in two weeks...unless I make a strong enough impression."

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  • Posted September 18, 2010

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    Cute series.

    unfortunately, the first book in the series is out of print. But the second one reads well without reading the first one.

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  • Posted January 28, 2010

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    Great follow up book

    I read her first book and loved it. The characters were believable - like who wants to be involved with fighting evil and trying to earn a living at the same time?

    This second book was just as good. A person needs to work to pay bills and live. And you take what you can get!

    This was well worth the money, an enjoyable read, no holier than thou pretensions. This is a welcome change from the cliched plot where the whole world revolves around the characters. This is where the characters does the necessary but aren't really thrilled about it. Wonderful, wonderful and a great way to escape one's own problems. Thank you Laura for realistic reactions to unreal situations!

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  • Posted November 22, 2009

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    The sequel to Disappearing Nightly is an amusing urban fantasy

    New York actress Esther Diamond waits for her next gig, but brings in needed cash while resting between roles as a singing waitress at Bella Stella because the patrons when they are not killed are mobsters who everyone knows are the best tippers. As she shares Ben and Jerry with NYPD Irish-Cuban police detective Connor Lopez, the deceased gangsters suddenly return to life.

    Connor leads the investigations into the dead firing guns with real ammo. At the same Eastern Standard Time, Esther and her unwise in the way of street magic but a guru with magic-Magic, Max the Magician and his crime fighting companion Nelli the saliva canine queen at her side, also makes inquiries on a slightly different plane than the cops as a gang war from beyond threaten the streets of Manhattan.

    The sequel to Disappearing Nightly is an amusing urban fantasy starring a wonderful heroine surrounded by a horde of eccentrics, one straight cop, and one interfering matchmaking mom. The jocular story line is filled with a fast-paced frenzy from the first magical mugging until the last as Esther proves once again to be a reader's best friend with her misadventures in Manhattan mystical mayhem.

    Harriet Klausner

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  • Posted April 25, 2010

    Paranormal Mystery

    In Dopplegangster, Esther Diamond and friends are at it again. Her Off -Broadway show has closed and she is back working as a singing waitress at a restaurant where members of the mob hang out. Detective Lopez, her want to be boy friend, is afraid something bad will happen to her there and wants her to find another job. He is proven right when Charlie Chiccante is murdered right after telling Ester that he has just seen his doppio. A doppio is a perfect duplicate of a person and a sign of immediate death. When other doppelgangers start to show up Esther goes to her old friend Max for help and the fun begins.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 5, 2010

    I have never read this authur. Wanted something differant to read. What a wonderful read.

    Laura Resnick hooked me from the very begining with this book. It was enough differant from what I usually read that i truelly enjoyed it.
    I will now have to go and read the first one.

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