While on vacation recently we spent a lot of time on the beach reading. I put aside my regular books and read “beach books.” Courting Trouble is one of those. It’s a murder mystery featuring Anne Murphy a smart, young, single, gorgeous, red headed attorney with a shoe fetish living in Philidelphia. She goes on a trip out of town by herself for the Fourth of July but reads in the paper next day that she has been killed.

That piques her interest of course and she decides that she should stay dead for now and find out who “killed” her. So off the the story goes. It’s pretty funny actually all the adventures and misadventures she has while she recruits help in her search for the killer. She ends up using an Uncle Sam costume as a disguise for much of the book and she and the rest of her all female law firm dress up as hookers for much of the rest of the book. She gets “lonely” and spends the night at an opposing attorney’s place and then leaves before he wakes up but she can’t find her panties so that is something she comments on quite frequently during the book. She goes all over town I couldn’t figure out why she didn’t stop in at Target and get what she needs.

Anyway the book is kind of a lightweight and the plot is full of holes and anybody that has read very many whodunnits can spot whodunnit a long ways away but still the book is a fun read. I give it three stars out of five.

The book has been out a while and I picked it up for fifty cents at our local libraries bargain bin. It’s all broke in. The pages are sprinkled with a great mixture of beer, beach sand, and seawater so it is a genuine beach read. I’m putting it in the Goodwill bag unless somebody local wants it.