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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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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.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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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.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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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.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.
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Posted April 25, 2010
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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Posted March 5, 2010
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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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