How does a blonde spell “Farm”?
E-I-E-I-O
Tressa Jayne Turner has had it up to here with the dumb-blonde jokes and a childhood nickname that’s harder to get rid of than her favorite pair of cowboy boots. Thanks to one Rick Townsend, Iowa Department of Natural Resources officer, local hottie, and general pain in Tressa’s behind, everyone knows her as “Calamity Jayne”. Just because she may be a … she may be a little accident prone and trouble seems to sometimes find her, Tressa can’t get anyone in her small town to take her seriously. That is, until Tressa finds a seriously dead body and an opportunity to get “Ranger Rick” and a skeptical citizenry to see that she’s no longer that skinny kid with scraped knees. How? By resurrecting her job as a reporter for the hometown paper and solving a murder no one else believes happened… no one, that is, except the killer. Now Tressa is one not-so-dumb blonde who’s out to gain a little hometown respect–or die trying.
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Tressa “Calamity” Jane Turner is clumsy and accident prone. She takes the wrong car, it has a flat, and Tressa finds a dead body in the trunk. Unfortunately, her tormenter, Rick, a ranger and the police don’t believe her and do nothing. Even though a hitman is after her, she resolves to get to the truth. She befriends a shady character, Manny. She stumbles, falls, and has all sorts of crazy thoughts which keep you laughing your head off as she tries to solve the case. This is the funniest thing I have ever read and I have read them all with no disappointments. I’ve read these over and over.
This review is for the audio book.
I read this book when it first came out on kindle and was really excited to see it come out as an audio book, I just had to get it. So glad I did because it was even funnier than I remembered. I just love Calamity Jayne as a character and all the mishaps she finds herself getting involved in, highly amusing. The elderly grandad made for a great sidekick and caused just as many chuckles. I hope he joins in more adventures with Calamity. The mystery was interesting and took lots of twists before it got solved and with one I didn’t see coming. It’s just a light hearted mystery with a couple of dumb blonde jokes thrown in and of course the complicated love interest which just adds to the chaos and mayhem. Off to start the next adventure.
With a nickname like Calamity Jayne, Tressa has a hard time getting anybody to take her seriously but you would think finding a dead body in the trunk of her car even the sceptical Ranger Rick would believe her. He would have done if the body was still in the trunk and the car was hers. Anybody can make a mistake and take the wrong car but only Calamity can then become the target of a killer, especially when nobody believe anybody is dead. Is it time to prove every body wrong and finally lose the nickname? Can Tressa find the body and finally get the respect she deserves? And more importantly find the killer before he finds her? Ranger Rick might not believe her but with his grandad helping her, what could go wrong?
I liked the narrator and thought she helped to bring the story to life with humour and perfect timing.
I really liked it but I also didn’t like it. The way everyone including her own family made fun of Jayne and the disasters that happened to her made me mad and cry. The whole story line was so action packed and gripping that I didn’t want to stop until the end. The murderer was someone I thought about but dismissed and the accomplice was just the cherry on top. Really, really glad I finally picked this series to read. (It’s been bookmarked on Overdrive for probably a year or more)
Calamity Jayne is such a fun character and boy the messes she finds herself in! My sister and I devoured this whole series as soon as we found it.