New York Times Bestselling Author of Meet Me in VeniceIt was just one of those Malibu nights, dark as a velvet shroud, creamy waves crashing onto the shore, breeze soft as a kitten’s breath.But when Private Investigator to the stars, Mac Reilly, hears the sound of a woman’s scream over the crashing waves, his low-key beach-bum lifestyle is changed forever. A beautiful, distrau/It New York Times Bestselling Author of Meet Me in VeniceIt was just one of those Malibu nights, dark as a velvet shroud, creamy waves crashing onto the shore, breeze soft as a kitten’s breath.But when Private Investigator to the stars, Mac Reilly, hears the sound of a woman’s scream over the crashing waves, his low-key beach-bum lifestyle is changed forever. A beautiful, distraught woman wearing only a black lace negligee stands in the doorway of a fabulous beach house.

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In her hand, a gun, and it’s pointed directly at him.Mac escapes her bullet, but barely. Who is that woman? Days later she’s disappeared and the Smith & Wesson she almost killed him with finds its way into his car.Not so coincidentally, Allie Ray, star of the big screen and America’s sweetheart, has also gone missing. The two women are connected, and Mac suddenly finds himself tangled up in a web of deception. He’s going to need some help if he’s going to get to the bottom of it all.This is where Sunny Alvarez comes in. Sunny and Mac have an on-again, off-again relationship.

Lately it’s been more off than on. But now he needs her more than ever. Together they go on a quest that takes them from Southern California, to the beaches of Mexico, to the streets of Rome, and the countryside of France. All the while they’re one step behind an elusive murderer and one step ahead of an actress who wants nothing more than to get lost.With Elizabeth Adler’s trademark descriptions, plot twists, and irresistible characters, One of Those Malibu Nights is beach-reading suspense at its best. Post Listen Review: Listening to this was torturous. I vowed not to skip any audiobooks on the library shelf so I could hear them all but it was a struggle to finish this one. As I was listening I realized it isn't just a bad story but the people in it are awful people.

I state my case below.Why Sonny (the main female protagonist) is an awful girlfriend: She contemplates her 'coral pink toenails and her life'. That is someone way too shallow to hang around. She plays into strict fema Post Listen Review: Listening to this was torturous. I vowed not to skip any audiobooks on the library shelf so I could hear them all but it was a struggle to finish this one. As I was listening I realized it isn't just a bad story but the people in it are awful people.

I state my case below.Why Sonny (the main female protagonist) is an awful girlfriend: She contemplates her 'coral pink toenails and her life'. That is someone way too shallow to hang around. She plays into strict female stereotypes because she takes hours to dress but makes up for it by 'cooking delilcious meals for her man, keeps an immaculate kitchen and always does the dishes'. Getting rid of that kind of stereotype is what the Seventies were for. She is not a believable character because she is described as both brainy and ditsy yet all her actions indicate she is ditsy and ditsy.

Yet she supposedly graduated Magna Cum Laude. She is insanely jealous and borderline psychotic. Sonny gets mad at her 'man' Mac for being late off of a fifteen hour flight to Rome and then goes off to do something she ALREADY HAD PLANNED! I would drop her then and there, no matter how 'beautiful' she is supposed to be. She gets mad at Mac because her ploy to 'flaunt her naked left hand pointedly' to get him to propose doesn't work. Also there is something wrong with her physically.

At one point her boyfriend is watching her walk and thinks,'the twitch of her butt was natural and beautiful'. If I see someone's butt twitching I think they have some kind of private itch that needs to be taken care of in private. She is insanely jealous. She gets mad because Mac invites Alley, the actress who doesn't act, to come to his house because she got a death threat and Sonnny gets mad because Mac must like her for inviting her over. She also won't let Mac find the missing actress who doesn't act alone despite the fact that Sonny was almost killed the night before.Why Mac is a terrible private eye: He has to ask Sonny if a woman that is clearly lying is lying because 'you're a woman, Sonny'.

He also forces Sonny to break into a house, rifle through stuff and escape through the doggy door. But see this is all ok because he has, 'A nice bottle of champagne' for her.

Also, one of the characters, Ron, goes missing and who finds out where he went? Not Mac the private investigator, it's Sonnny. Who finds out who has been stalking the actress? Mac's assistant. When Mac finds a body buried under rubble does he check for a pulse, try to get help, call an ambulance?

He checks to see if the expensive watch on the body IS STILL WORKINIG.Why Alley is not really an actress: For starters she doesn't act in the book. She attends Cannes, cooks, runs arounds, wallows in self pity and does not ever act, even when she is trying to lie, Sonny figures her out.How you know they stalker person is evil: The stalker cuts up expensive clothing. And despite the fact that there are multiple murders, the thing that frightens the characters the most in this is the fact that expensive dresses are now not wearable.Why I hope there are no more Elizabeth Adler books at the library: Because I will have to listen to the exploits of these awful, shallow, fantastically rich and totally self-centered annoying characters.Pre-Listen Guess: Man this is gonna suck! You know how in the typical PI/adventure book they are racing around solving cases and facing dangers and somehow have time for a little romance, but definitely not for anything else?

In this one, even when they've agreed to keep the damsel in distress safe from the imminent threats of the bad guys, they find time to make complex dinners, relax and watch the sunset, and have a long lunch at some out of the way restaurant.The suspension of belief quotient is especially high with regar You know how in the typical PI/adventure book they are racing around solving cases and facing dangers and somehow have time for a little romance, but definitely not for anything else? In this one, even when they've agreed to keep the damsel in distress safe from the imminent threats of the bad guys, they find time to make complex dinners, relax and watch the sunset, and have a long lunch at some out of the way restaurant.The suspension of belief quotient is especially high with regards to travel time.

The author implies that it is a matter of a few minutes to drive from Malibu to Marina del Rey (54 in current traffic) or from Malibu to Bel Air (at least 45 min). And that's one way! Even more unbelievable, at the drop of a hat, they fly off to Rome or Paris, have lots of adventures and are back in CA in a day or 2. It takes me that long to pack for such a trip! C2008: FWFTB: vineyards, France, actress, husband, missing. If you are having one of 'those days' eg a bad hair day/week/month - do yourself a favour and do not read this book.

Wait until you are in a good place. All the characters are impossibly handsome and impossibly charming. I think that the synopsis is a little misleading in that there was not too much involving the 'beaches of Mexico' and I'm not sure when they were ever 'one step ahead of an actress who wants nothing more to get lost'. T c2008: FWFTB: vineyards, France, actress, husband, missing. If you are having one of 'those days' eg a bad hair day/week/month - do yourself a favour and do not read this book.

Wait until you are in a good place. All the characters are impossibly handsome and impossibly charming. I think that the synopsis is a little misleading in that there was not too much involving the 'beaches of Mexico' and I'm not sure when they were ever 'one step ahead of an actress who wants nothing more to get lost'. The edition I read was titled One Night in Malibu so perhaps there was a difference between the USA and UK versions. I couldn’t finish this book, unfortunately it just didn’t work for me.I picked it up from the romance section, then discovered it was a romance mystery.

This isn’t too much of an issue, but chapter to chapter I discovered I was getting confused as one chapter was all romance, sunshine and light and the chapter after would turn mystery and dark. As amazing as it sounds, I just couldn’t get into it and reading each chapter became a chore for me, I was having to force myself to sit I couldn’t finish this book, unfortunately it just didn’t work for me.I picked it up from the romance section, then discovered it was a romance mystery. This isn’t too much of an issue, but chapter to chapter I discovered I was getting confused as one chapter was all romance, sunshine and light and the chapter after would turn mystery and dark.

As amazing as it sounds, I just couldn’t get into it and reading each chapter became a chore for me, I was having to force myself to sit and read this book and that for me isn’t enjoyable so I’ve given up. Whether I come back to it or not is a different topic. One of Those Malibu Nights, first book in the Mac Reilly series, is set in modern-day Malibu, Baja California, Palm Springs, Rome, Cannes, and the French countryside. The story's characters belong to the 'jet set': Hollywood stars and moguls, millionaires with mansions, and the people who work for them.

Protagonist Mac Reilly is a television actor private eye. His girlfriend Sunny (Sonora Sky Coto de Alvarez) wishes Mac would propose.Mac lives in a Malibu Colony bungalow with his dog Pirate, re One of Those Malibu Nights, first book in the Mac Reilly series, is set in modern-day Malibu, Baja California, Palm Springs, Rome, Cannes, and the French countryside. The story's characters belong to the 'jet set': Hollywood stars and moguls, millionaires with mansions, and the people who work for them. Protagonist Mac Reilly is a television actor private eye.

His girlfriend Sunny (Sonora Sky Coto de Alvarez) wishes Mac would propose.Mac lives in a Malibu Colony bungalow with his dog Pirate, rescued from a highway. While strolling on the beach late at night, Mac hears a woman scream and goes to help.

She shoots at him and he flees. Next day millionaire Ron Perrin, in whose house the woman screamed, denies the event but wants to hire Mac to discover who has been following him.

Allie Ray, the movie star wife Ron is divorcing, also wants to hire Mac to discover who has been following her, and sending threatening notes.While he is vacationing in Rome with Sunny, Mac encounters the woman who had screamed and shot at him in Malibu. Marisa tells him she is Ron's fiancee, flaunts a huge diamond ring, and asks Mac to find Ron, who has disappeared.When Mac returns from Rome, Ron's right-hand man Sam Demarco also asks Mac to find Ron, and to find out what the FBI wants from Ron.Famous movie star Allie Ray had humble beginnings, and she is lonely surrounded by luxury.

She plans to return to being Mary Allison Raycheck one day. But first she must do her job: appear in Cannes at her film release party.Mac meets another PI who thinks Ron killed his girlfriend. Sunny and Mac travel to Palm Springs looking for clues and find a body. They investigate all the people in Ron's and Allie's lives, wondering who might carry a grudge.Allie Ray escapes fame & fortune to the French countryside, where she works in a restaurant. She becomes interested in a local landowner, but still misses and loves her husband.Sunny goes on trip by herself to Baja CA and finds Ron, but then loses him.Sunny and Mac go back to Rome, where they find another body. One of Allie's friends tells Sunny where Allie is, just before a newspaper reporter tells the world.

Mac finally learns who the killer is, and races to save Allie and Sunny in France.I found the book shallow and many descriptions melodramatic. It likely appeals to readers who follow movie stars and celebrities.

The author uses dogs and their relationships with their owners to illustrate shallow lives as well as true-blue characters. Mac and Sunny will continue investigating together and jet-setting around the world, but I don't plan to read any more of the series. A weekend camping trip, and out come the guilty pleasures!This one is definitely a typical guilty pleasure (or as the BF would say, some good fluff.though he would NEVER call it good, lol!). Medical terminology made easy fourth edition building. This book is very lighthearted, even for a mystery, as the the fun, playful human interactions are well balanced with the suspense and intrigue. The interwoven story lines also made this enjoyable, though on a few occasions I felt the number of people who seem to come to the same private inves A weekend camping trip, and out come the guilty pleasures!This one is definitely a typical guilty pleasure (or as the BF would say, some good fluff.though he would NEVER call it good, lol!). This book is very lighthearted, even for a mystery, as the the fun, playful human interactions are well balanced with the suspense and intrigue.

The interwoven story lines also made this enjoyable, though on a few occasions I felt the number of people who seem to come to the same private investigator, unbeknownst to each other and in relation to the same overall set of problems, was a little over the top and not believable. To the author's credit though, this is fiction so of course there is room for all the creative license one would like to employ, but I am sometimes a bit put off by the moments where I go 'really?!'

- it just seems to me to be easier to get into a story like this when there is at least some feeling that things going on could actually happen.The only other thing I didn't love as much about this book was the way the relationship between Mac and Sunny shaped up and played out. We are introduced to Sunny as being Mac's 'on again, off again' girlfriend who wanted to get married though Mac is 'happy how things are'. I won't throw in a spoiler, but will just say that the state of their relationship at the end of the book was a bit disappointing, though not for the normal reasons. This didn't originally bother me when first reading, as I was not aware that this was the first book in a series, but upon realizing that there were additional books, I was bit bummed out. The 'on again, off again' and 'will they or won't they' scenario is one that has a lot of potential in a series.

Yes, it can be somewhat annoying sometimes when the latest book or episode leaves you wondering until the next comes out, but in the end it is one of the great elements that they know will keep readers and viewers coming back, and I think too much happened in this one story that could have been spread out over at least one, if not two, other books that would have added to the desire to read the next one.Otherwise, a great lazy hammock afternoon read! 1.5.Adler writes romantic suspense / chick-lit. This is the first in her Mac Reilly / Sunny Alvarez series. Mac is a private investigator with a Malibu beach bungalow, a one-eyed mutt named Pirate, and a reality crime-investigation TV show. His girlfriend Sunny just wants him to propose.

While out for an evening stroll on the beach, he hears a woman scream and nearly gets shot when he runs to investigate. Before he knows it, however, he’s got multiple clients in the rich-and-famous H 1.5.Adler writes romantic suspense / chick-lit. This is the first in her Mac Reilly / Sunny Alvarez series. Mac is a private investigator with a Malibu beach bungalow, a one-eyed mutt named Pirate, and a reality crime-investigation TV show. His girlfriend Sunny just wants him to propose.

While out for an evening stroll on the beach, he hears a woman scream and nearly gets shot when he runs to investigate. Before he knows it, however, he’s got multiple clients in the rich-and-famous Hollywood jet-set. The story has the characters traveling to Italy, Mexico and France in pursuit of a murderer.The writing is hackneyed, and the characters one-dimensional. Worse, the plot twists are so incredible as to be plain ridiculous. I’ve read some of her other books and thought they were fun beach reads.

I think she got carried away with this one and tried to do too much. I didn’t care at all about the relationship between Mac and Sunny. Actress Allie Ray’s adventures in the South of France were the best part. That might have made an entertaining read all on its own. How does drivel like this get published! Absolutely the most amateurish writing I have had the misfortune of listening to.Clearly Elizabeth Adler took Over-Descriptive Literature When You Have No Real Story 101.' It was just one of those Malibu nights - dark as a velvet shroud, creamy waves crashing onto the Malibu shore, breeze soft as a kittens breath.'

'Joggers looking as sweaty as regular joggers, even thought they were movie stars or just plain rich, trotted past.' 'Roddy dried t How does drivel like this get published! Absolutely the most amateurish writing I have had the misfortune of listening to.Clearly Elizabeth Adler took Over-Descriptive Literature When You Have No Real Story 101.'

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It was just one of those Malibu nights - dark as a velvet shroud, creamy waves crashing onto the Malibu shore, breeze soft as a kittens breath.' 'Joggers looking as sweaty as regular joggers, even thought they were movie stars or just plain rich, trotted past.' 'Roddy dried the car off with paper towels, gave it a quick polish, then checked the cars door. As he thought, it was open.' While this is the 1st story in the Sunny & Mac series, it is my 2nd read of the authors and well as my 2nd read of the series. I read the 2nd book 1st without realizing it.While this book was a nice light mystery chic lit style read, it just does not compare to the story quality of the 2nd book in the series, so I have to give it 3 stars, which for me is liked it (4 = love and 5 = phenomenal).

It was nice to read the history and get the establishment for the Sunny & Mac story While this is the 1st story in the Sunny & Mac series, it is my 2nd read of the authors and well as my 2nd read of the series. I read the 2nd book 1st without realizing it.While this book was a nice light mystery chic lit style read, it just does not compare to the story quality of the 2nd book in the series, so I have to give it 3 stars, which for me is liked it (4 = love and 5 = phenomenal). It was nice to read the history and get the establishment for the Sunny & Mac storyline but quite frankly it isn't necessary. Again, not a bad good - it's good by itself. I was just let down a touch after reading the 2nd book in series first. What attracted me to this book was the mystery/investigation.

Since I seem to be drawn to that.And I thought, crime with an undertone of romance. PERFECT.Except no.The mystery involves a triangle of people who are in love with someone and think that another person is after them/following them/out to get them.The romance consisted of two flat characters trying to convince each other they really love each other.The only thing attractive about this book was the cover and the idea of this M What attracted me to this book was the mystery/investigation. Since I seem to be drawn to that.And I thought, crime with an undertone of romance. PERFECT.Except no.The mystery involves a triangle of people who are in love with someone and think that another person is after them/following them/out to get them.The romance consisted of two flat characters trying to convince each other they really love each other.The only thing attractive about this book was the cover and the idea of this Malibu lifestyle. It's the first in the Mac Reilly series and I actually started off by reading the newest (3rd installlment, 'It All Began in Monte Carlo') and was hooked. These books make me want to travel and this one in particular made me want to taste the delicious foreign dishes described. Now I'm reading the second book in the series, 'There's Something About St.

Tropez' and loving it as well. I'd recommend this to anyone who loves a good mystery and can enjoy traveling vicariously through the ch Loved it! It's the first in the Mac Reilly series and I actually started off by reading the newest (3rd installlment, 'It All Began in Monte Carlo') and was hooked.

These books make me want to travel and this one in particular made me want to taste the delicious foreign dishes described. Now I'm reading the second book in the series, 'There's Something About St. Tropez' and loving it as well. I'd recommend this to anyone who loves a good mystery and can enjoy traveling vicariously through the characters. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it,This was a great beach read for Labor Day weekend.Elizabeth Alder writes another adventurous story on the water about PI Mac Reilly, his gorgeous girlfriend Sunny Alvarez,and a Hollywood starlet named Allie Ray. There is murder, romance,and travel, but I was most happy reading about the pets in the story.

This book is really starring Pirate the one-eyed, three-legged mutt, Tesoro the feisty chihuahua, Fussy the miniature Maltese,and Dearie and Frankie. Born in Yorkshire, North England, met her husband Richard (an American) while both were working in London.

They have lived in England, Ireland, France, Brazil, and the United States and have traveled extensively. They have one daughter and live in Palm Springs, California. Her first novel, Private Desires (also titled Leonie), launched an enormously successful writing career, she also w Born in Yorkshire, North England, met her husband Richard (an American) while both were working in London.

They have lived in England, Ireland, France, Brazil, and the United States and have traveled extensively. They have one daughter and live in Palm Springs, California. Her first novel, Private Desires (also titled Leonie), launched an enormously successful writing career, she also wrote as. She has now written over twenty internationally acclaimed bestsellers.

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