From USA Today bestselling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins.A controversial tourist resort. An unsolved beachside murder. Does she have the pipes to blow the whistle on a deadly conspiracy?Everyone wants a piece of Ava’s skyrocketing star power… including her serious boyfriend and her deadbeat baby daddy. But when she visits the future site of a controversial resort and stumbles upon a dead body, Ava … controversial resort and stumbles upon a dead body, Ava thinks she’s finally found a worthy cause for her newfound celebrity. Determined to catch the killer and stop the construction of the eco-unfriendly tourist trap, she plans to put her sex symbol status to good use.
Infiltrating the resort chain gala’s celebrity guest list, she teams up with a heavyweight boxer to dig up dirt on the investors. But her investigation takes a critical hit when her ex sues for full custody. Faced with the possibility of losing her daughter, she may have to give up the flirty persona she’s put to good use in wheeling out secrets from under the noses of corrupt investors.
To solve the murder and save her career, Ava must find a new way to take down the multi-million-dollar nest of corruption before her dead body joins the construction heap.
Knockout is the third book in Ava’s trilogy and book #9 within the What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery saga. If you like strong single mothers, glamorous celebrity lifestyles, and hard-hitting whodunits, then you’ll love USA Today best seller Pamela Fagan Hutchins’ award-winning series.
Buy Knockout to step into the spotlight for a star-studded mystery today!
˃˃˃ See why Pamela wins contests and makes best seller lists.
- USA Today Best Seller
- #1 Amazon Best Seller
- Top 50 Amazon Romantic Suspense and Mystery Author
- Silver Falchion for Best Adult Mystery
- USA Best Book Awards Cross-Genre Fiction
- Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, Romance, Quarter-finalist
˃˃˃ Once Upon A Romance calls Hutchins an “up-and-coming powerhouse writer.”
If you like Sandra Brown or Janet Evanovich, you will love Pamela Fagan Hutchins. A former attorney who splits her time between Nowheresville, Texas and the frozen north of Snowheresville, Wyoming, Pamela lived in the U.S. Virgin Islands for nearly ten years. She refuses to admit to taking notes for this series during that time.
˃˃˃ The Ava series reviews are in, and they’re good. Very, very good.
“Just when I think I couldn’t love another Pamela Fagan Hutchins novel more, along comes Ava. She’s smart and sassy, with a story full of juicy plot twists. I enjoyed Bombshell from cover to cover!” — Marcy McKay, author of Pennies from Burger Heaven
“To finally get a whole book of Ava’s beautiful voice and attitude was so much fun. And then to see that her outer armor was mixed with the very real insecurities and struggles that we can all relate to was magical. She personifies bombshell in every sense of word and I can’t wait to have her voice in my head again in Stunner.” — Tara Scheyer, Grammy-nominated musician, Long-Distance Sisters Book Club
“Entertaining, complex, and thought-provoking. Each book gets better and better and better…It was so hard to put this book down once I started reading.” — Ginger Copeland, power reader
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Ava has more to deal with than one person (or a team) should possibly!
I was treated to the Audible version of this all encompassing novel. Even having read the blurb, I was unprepared for everything involved! Ava gets hit from all sides and has more to deal with than one person (or a team) should possibly at the same time.
From family health worries, to stumbling across a death (or murder,) a change of career environment to actual environmental battles, there is so much going on your head will spin. Poor Ava!
And strange men watching and following her at every turn. Everyone wants something from her, now that she is in the spotlight, including pirates.
I really enjoyed the narration and dialect.
I am not reading this series in order but was not lost, as long as I could focus. There is so much happening and Ava is being pulled in so many directions, of course with fans and Paparazzi alike watching. Of course I want to read each book in the series now.
I couldn’t put this book down! I am so happy that Ava has finally realized that sometimes you long to chase a dream but what is best is right in front of you. She seems to have finally come to terms with her life and I sure hope there is another installment in this series. I love how Ms.Hutchins adds characters that you really come to love and I hope Chen and McKenna and all the other characters continue to have a place in this storyline. Most importantly, I cannot wait to read about Ava’s new life and all that lies ahead!
What a rollercoaster! Good news, bad news, murder, love – all the essentials of a great read! Ava’s celebrity status works for and against her, as ex-boyfriends appear, and island mysteries surface. From the islands to the streets of New York, new characters appear, old friends reappear, and Ava learns how to handle some major life crises. I laughed, I cried, I didn’t want to stop reading. If you like strong, imperfect female protagonists, this book is for you.
Ava is a rockstar and a tough-as-nails lioness who hangs onto her cool despite being a murder scene witness ×2, flashbacks to childhood traumas, theft of her amazing music, and betrayal and threats from every direction. It is only by sheer determination, smart sleuthing, and her Virgin Island chutzpah, that she records, performs, protects family, and deems to save her beautiful island from money monger villains. Surprise twists reveal answers to mysterious events from her last starring roles in Bombshell and Stunner, and you won’t want to miss the latest steam to ice moments with love interest Collin. So don’t miss a thing! Read Knockout, from the Ava Trilogy, in the What Doesn’t Kill You series by Pamela Fagan Hutchins.
A day in the life of a singer celebrity.
A look into the life of a singer who has detached herself from being owned by the big guys. No one is perfect or exempt from messing up and making mistakes. Ava is just another young woman who is merely a drop in this musical world. It seems very realistic and very hard to stomach, really, but so true to life as well. Well written. Love the narrator’s ability to bring each character to life.
Love all pamela’s books!
Ava is turning in to a lioness and she is fierce!!
Another murder, another song, another stalker, another day in the life of Ava but this is the new and improved lioness Ava and she is taking charge this time! Taking charge of her career, her crazy baby Daddy, the destruction of her island, her relationships and her family and she ROCKS it!
I love Pamela’s characters so much because they are so real! They are flawed. They are fun. They are life!
Trust me and pick up these fun, cozy, a little sexy, murder mysteries and escape!
This review is for the audio book.
I quite enjoyed this snippet of Island life and the glimpse into the world of music. The murder did seem to get brushed aside what with Ava recording a new music album and rushing around New York to make it happen but I did enjoy the characters and the familiarity between them all. This is book three and it obviously carries on from the previous books but it was still easy to follow on and didn’t matter that I didn’t start with book one.
Ava has broken away from her record label and has enlisted the help of her friends to help her make a record she can be proud of. However things aren’t that easy as she finds a dead body floating in the water of her favourite hangout out spot and to make matters worse she knows the man and calls him a friend. She barely has time to come to terms with his death before she is traveling to New York to start recording the album, an ex boyfriend attaches himself to her entourage, her current boyfriend is having major problems at work, her daughter’s father is making noises about having her back in his life and a land developer is stirring up ripples on her home Island causing friction between her and her friends and her family is out of touch leaving Ava feeling home sick. Then another body turns up and even her bodyguard is worried about her safety . It’s a good job what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
The narrator had a nice easy way of speaking just right for what I imagine Island life is like.
Another great read by Pamela Fagan Hutchins! Knockout is the 3rd in the Ava series, As with the first 2, Bombshell and Stunner, you are in for a wild ride with murder,a message from the jumbie, people from Ava’s past (nice and not so nice) and continuing drama that seems to always follow Ava from the states to St Marcos. I thoroughly enjoy Pamela’s writing for Ava who speaks in the island dialect or “Yank” depending on who Ava is talking with. I can’t get enough of Pamela’s books!
I loved the Book #3 of awesome Ava! Murder, mayhem and more. Two things I love most about Ava’s stories … learning about life in the Caribbean (even when she’s in NYC) + how wonderfully flawed Ava is. I get SO TIRED of perfect heroes and heroines. This is a GREAT read I’d recommend to anyone.