- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Minotaur Books; First Edition edition (Feb 2 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312384033
- ISBN-13: 978-0312384036
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 16.1 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #704,247 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Tightly plotted, with scenes of laugh-out-loud humor, great dialogue and supporting characters, this is a sassy, fun story that will have you waiting impatiently for the next book."--Romantic Times BOOKreviews (4 1/2 stars)
“Fans who fell for Lola in Living the Vida Lola (2009) will welcome her smart and snappy return.”--Booklist
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When Lola comes home to her parents’ house to find a horde of relatives mourning her death, no one is more surprised than she is. The news had reported that one Lola Cruz, PI was found murdered in an alley, causing great alarm in the Cruz family. Before Lola can say “boo,” a cop comes to the house. It turns out the dead woman had a driver’s license with Lola’s information. Between avoiding an unsavory ex-boyfriend, sorting out mixed signals from the very interested but not yet committed Jack Callaghan, and filling in as a waitress at her parents’ Mexican restaurant, Lola tries to find out who the woman was and why she stole her identity. Was the woman hiding from someone who meant her harm, or is there someone out there who wants Lola dead?
This follow-up to Ramirez’s debut novel, Living the Vida Lola, is a red-hot, fun-filled mystery. Lola, a black belt in kung fu who loves to salsa dance, makes for a sexy, unique, and vivacious detective.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Fun filled engaging read with a feel of Evanovich, April 5 2010
By Sheila A. Dechantal - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hasta la Vista, Lola!: A Lola Cruz Mystery (Hardcover)
I loved the wonderful, full of life character that is Lola. Starting out by walking in on her own wake. Yes - her own wake! And the craziness does not stop there... page by page you fall in love with this fun loving family and everything they bring along with them.
I really picked up on a Janet Evanovich "Stephanie Plum" type vibe in this book so if you are a fan of the great Evanovich series, I believe you will be rolling with laughter at this one as well.
Wonderfully worded and deeply entangled in family, you will not want to put this book down once you dive into Lola's world.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Derivative, Mar 16 2010
By M. C. Carter "cartertoggle" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hasta la Vista, Lola!: A Lola Cruz Mystery (Hardcover)
I am in the process of reading both of the Lola Cruz PI books (I got the second one from the library before noticing it was a second book). While neither of them are bad books, neither are either of them particularly good books. Probably not good review form, but I'm going to cut and paste this review for her other book because my opinion of them isn't based on the plot, but on their derivative and watered down back story. Lola Cruz is a PI with an eye for newspaperman Jack and her boss Manny. She has a nosy but loving mother and a very concerned and involved family who are concerned about the dangerous nature of her career, a career, as other reviewers have pointed out, she isn't terribly good at, tending to stumble into solutions rather than 'detecting' her way through her cases. There is a lot of talk about her underwear drawer, her low cut swishy skirts and thin t-shirts and a lot of steamy 'will she won't she' scenes and wait for it, her boss is somewhat mysterious.
Does this start to sound familiar? Stephanie Plum is the Italian-Hungarian template and Dolores Falcon Cruz, Sophie Metropolis, Bubbles Strohmeyer and probably a half dozen more literary characters are the watered-down Mexican, Greek and I believe Polish (I could be wrong on that) wanna-bes. Somehow Stephanie (and her creator) do it all so much better, tighter, funnier and more readably.
The Dolores story lines and mysteries really becomes who cares...it's all about the bumbling PI and caliente newspaper writer Jack and their attempts to find a place to do what both of them have supposedly been lusting after since high school. Oh and she really wants to figure out what makes Ranger (I mean Manny tick).
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
engaging Mexican-American mystery, Feb 5 2010
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hasta la Vista, Lola!: A Lola Cruz Mystery (Hardcover)
In Sacramento, California private investigator Lola Cruz visits her parents' house to find extended family members and friends mourning her death. Apparently, the news reported that the police found her body near the Florin Mall; she had been hammered in the head. A cop arrives at the house to tell the family that their daughter died; as he has a license taken from the deceased with Lola's information on it.
The victim is Rosie Gonzales, an identity thief. Lola and her boyfriend, Sacramento Bee reporter Jack Callaghan find out that Rosie had pretended to be Lola for at least six months. Unable to resist, Lola makes further inquiries trying to learn why Rosie took her identity but apparently did not steal anything financial from her. In between restaurant gigs at her parents place, Lola soon finds a link to her odious former boyfriend Sergio Garcia and that the dead woman has a child missing somewhere in the city who the sleuth wants to find.
The second Cruz whodunit (see Living the Vida Lola) is an engaging Mexican-American mystery with an insightful focus on identity theft. The story line is fast-paced from the moment Lola shows up at her grief "party" and never slows down though the murder investigation takes a back seat to the romance between Lola and noncommittal Jack. Still this is a wonderful tale as Lola's escapades are fun to follow even when the action is low key.
Harriet Klausner
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