90 Days to Score
By Deborah Coonts
- Release Date: 2020-10-01
- Genre: Women Sleuths
Description
In Texas, football isn't all fun and fanatics...it can be fatal.
Two years ago, I’d married for love.
Little had I known I was marrying into a threesome.
Now my wannabe ex is dead, and everybody thinks I did it.
Worse—I inherited everything…including the Roughriders, the NFL franchise the locals follow with a religious fervor bordering on a cult-like fanaticism.
Imagine, in Dallas, a woman, and worse, a Northerner, running their sainted team?
My name is Brinda Rose, and I’m a Jersey girl caught in the net of Southern pretense, privilege, and back-stabbing, with nary a rule book to guide me.
The whole city seems out for my blood.
But the NFL gave me 90 days to solve my pesky little legal issues and prove I am up to the task of running an NFL franchise. Big of them.
My pal, Lucky O’Toole sent reinforcements in the form of a long, tall, drink of Texas charm named Paxton Dane, although he’s as clueless as I am in the kind of voodoo needed to fend off the coffee-klatch of bored, bitter wives of the power brokers in town.
Intent on protecting their positions (even if it means defending the scum they married) they feast on newcomers with a piranha frenzy.
As if this wasn’t bad enough, I keep seeing flashes of a guy tailing me who looks a lot like my ex.
Could he be alive? The thought has me sleeping with a handgun and doubting my sanity.
With a fortune on the line and everyone from players, to coaches, to investors, to even my former father-in-law, hiding secrets and working angles, 90 days seems an impossibly short amount of time to solve my problems, and an impossibly long amount of time to stay alive.
Reviews
Another Winner From Deborah Coonts
5By nora charlesDeborah Coonts has another winner on her hands with “90 Days to Score” and I couldn’t be happier. I was sorry to see her “Lucky O’Toole” series end, so this is a balm to my reader’s heart. Coonts writes great characters and creates interesting mysteries. I always enjoy them. But what I enjoy even more is her writing style. She has a way of using words that always amazes me. She paints these incredible word pictures, and then populates them with all manner of characters. In this new series, we are introduced to Brinda Rose, who is a Jersey girl living in the midst of football country in Texas. When her husband is murdered she finds herself waking up to the fact that he wasn’t the man she thought he was, and that in order to prove she wasn’t the one who killed him she must dig deeper into the viper pit of society she lives amongst and the business of football that would prefer Brinda, as the “outsider,” leave to the good old boys. There are lots of twists and turns, and several revelations that you don’t see coming. I really enjoyed this new series and hope that we’ll be seeing more of Brinda and the gang. Highly recommended.Loved It
5By Linda943I have been a fan of the Lucky O’Toole series, but I think Belinda Rose is the best yet. Loved learning about Texas wealth, society, and football. The mystery plot was well crafted and the suspects were numerous. Hope ther are more adventures of Belinda Rose to come.
