From USA Today bestselling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins.A nationwide tour. A popstar in the crosshairs. Touring with the band just got deadly.After battling breast cancer, island pop singer and single mom Ava thought she could handle anything her concert tour threw her way. But when tragedy strikes her album launch party, she realizes she may have underestimated the price she’ll have to pay for … underestimated the price she’ll have to pay for fame. And the cost skyrockets when someone attempts to murder her headlining act.
Still shaken by the alarming attack, Ava has little time to process the traumatic event before she’s caught up in a scandal worthy of the tabloids. Someone in her staff is leaking secrets to the paparazzi, and the fallout is wreaking havoc on her love life. When a second pop singer is targeted, Ava doubles down on her search for clues. But with music careers and multi-million-dollar contracts on the line, she could pack a stadium with potential suspects.
Knowing her future hinges on staying in the spotlight, Ava must track down the murderous stalker before the final curtain drops.
Stunner is the second book in Ava’s trilogy and book #8 within the What Doesn’t Kill You series of romantic mysteries. If you like sexy pop stars, backstage scandals, and edge-of-your-seat mysteries, then you’ll love USA Today best seller Pamela Fagan Hutchins’ award-winning series.
Buy Stunner to go on the road with a show-stopping murder 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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Pamela Fagan Hutchins does it again!! Stunner,is an edge of your seats romantic mystery. It is a must read in her “What doesn’t kill you” series. You’ll fall in love with the characters and find yourself drawn in at every turn. A total must read!!
Stunner is an exciting page-turner, matching the promise of its predecessor in the series, which is no small feat, given how fast-paced and exciting Bombshell is. Ava is a fascinating protagonist of engaging contradictions, strong but endearingly insecure about balance between family and career, in love with one man but plagued with a wandering eye, and a good mother to her infant daughter but a rock-star sex-pot to the world. The tension between these goals and needs grabs you and won’t let you go. This is a power-packed plot told in the author’s unique voice and with her masterful writing-style. It’s a great read in all respects!
This was a great book, but all that Ava was going through in order to attain her dream was sometimes very overwhelming. If this is what the music industry is really like, I am surprised that people don’t crash and burn. But, once again, the story was compelling, fast paced and Ava and her entourage provided entertainment and thrills throughout the book. I LOVE CHEN! I also love the way Ms Hutchins develops her characters from one book to another. You watch them grow, face trials and tribulations and deal with what life hands them. It is good to see that Ava realizes she is going to have to change her ways if she wants a long term relationship with Collin. And more importantly, she realizes her most important role in life is being a good Mother to Ginger. Another great read and cannot wait for the next book! Thank you PFH fora great series!
Pamela Fagan Hutchins’ Stunner does not disappoint. Heroine Ava is triple threat … smart, sexy and sassy. I enjoyed watching her struggle with her rise to fame, while a few dead bodies dropped along the way. Hutchins writing is fast-pace and fun and I can’t wait to read the conclusion to Ava’s story!
Ava’s world is so not my world! But it’s a fascinating world of music, parties, and mornings after. I totally lost track of time reading Stunner, which is a rare occurrence for me. Ava isn’t perfect, and she knows it, but she’s trying to do her best for her family and herself. It isn’t her fault that people are dying, or is it? Is being the next music sensation what she really wants? From tropical island paradise to gritty band tour buses, Stunner is an entertaining, female-empowering, totally engrossing book!
Ever wonder what it is like to be discovered? To be asked for your autograph? To have thousands of people chant your name over and over, and over again. In the newest book in the What Doesn’t Kill You Series, Stunner, Pamela Fagan Hutchins takes her readers on this ride with character Ava Butler. Ava quickly catapults to the pinnacle of the music industry immersed in the fast paced life of an up and coming singer.
Ava begins the story with an adrenalized playback of her entrance/arrival to the launch party on Decker Cay. A self described road weary skank with make up down her cheek wearing a green lace top, Ava captivates readers. Her story from island beginnings to rock star status mesmerizes readers- taking them down a tremulous, unpredictable path where the line blurs between reality and showtime. Ava struggles with her dream come true and what she may lose if she goes after it- Readers toil with her- wanting to help, yet perplexed as well. Throw in murder, romance, kidnapping and tons of cash… readers will not veer far from the story once they begin reading.
True to form, Stunner fits nicely in the What Doesn’t Kill You series, with Ava visiting Emily Annalisle and seeing Michelle (Going for Kona) at her show in Houston .- yet, Stunner may be read without confusion as a stand alone book. Kudos to Hutchins for her dedication to the series framework as well as to the individual novel.
Readers love Hutchins’ work- a well developed plot line, characters vividly described and detailed … and always an accurate backstory- in this case experiencing the impact a hit single generates. Readers absorb relevant facts, information, truisms- the what really goes on in the music tour circuit as Ava faces euphoria followed by face-slapping reality. Hutchins planned and articulated an inseparable bond between the reader and Ava. This connection remains. When Stunner ends, the reader wants more- what more is there to say?
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Ava is a Bombshell, a Stunner and TNT. She explodes into every scene. She’s steamy sexy, conflicted and so real. I couldn’t stop turning the pages, burning to find out her next dilemma. I am mesmerized by the way Pamela crafts this continent- hopping mystery, bringing together old friends and family to share love, protect their own, and rally to lift up our heroine, Ava.
I am a huge fan of all of this Author’s books and Stunner clearly does not disappoint. In Stunner, the author brings you right smack into the musical entertainment world. There are moments you honestly feel like you are on stage with Ava. The characters are REAL, they do things and say things real people would. The pace of Stunner is fast, the mystery will keep you guessing and the characters like Chen, will become your friends. I also think it is fun that there are story threads of characters from other of the authors books creatively woven into Stunner. You will LOVE this book.
Ava is fast tracking her rise to fame and it is bringing the crazy out of the woodwork! She now has people who want her to have a certain presence at all times, they pick out her close, do her hair & make-up in just the right way, spin her life in just the way they want even though it conflicts with who she really is and how she wants to live, they even have the nerve to dictate what she drinks! If that isn’t bad enough she also had to sign a contract stating she will not care for her daughter when she is sick! The excitement of the stage is also making her hormones run on overdrive and she finds herself flirting with everyone constantly to Colin’s absolute frustration! Now she finds herself in the middle of a stalker, one man has died, one man has been shot and no one knows who or what they are after! This is not at all like she thought it would be!
Pamela’s steamiest story to date! There is tons of mystery and great characters! I think this was my favorite book in all of the series!
This review is for the audio book
If you give this book a chance you might enjoy it as the story was good. You are taking a chance because the recording wasn’t the best but if you ignore that and listen to the story you will find it has lots of twist in the story and was good.
Ava and her daughter are on your promoting her new album. Being new to the music industry she is only the opening act for the main stars but has the promise of being rich and famous. But being a super star isn’t all it’s cracked up to be as Ava finds out when she gains the attention of a stalker and stalkers can be be dangerous. With on life taken before the tour even starts Ava is worried and the when an accident derails the tour things get really strange. With her manager ducking her calls, the band members not getting paid, secrets getting leaked to the media, fans going crazy on stage,a stalker seems to be the less of her worries.
The narrator was good and I liked her island accent but it only gets a three star rating because the recording wasn’t very good, very tinny and there was random sounds at the end of a few chapters like whistling and even what sounded like a toilet being flushed. It you can get past the bad recording then give it ago.
Always love Pamela Fagan Hutchins books. Frickin hay!
i liked the book. All of the authors books are linked, but have new protagonists.
This has a action packed story which is what i always like.
The characters are original.
Look out Janet Evanovich!
Pamela Fagan Hutchins is on a roll with Stunner! Amazing characterization. Vivid descriptions that put you in the midst of the Caribbean, with plot twists a plenty. Hutchins’ dedication to portraying the local dialect (patios) is really fun. You can hear their accents in your head as you read.
The cliffhanger ending in reference to Ava’s relationship keeps me in suspense for the next book!
There were some minor police procedural type of inaccuracies, which I’m a stickler for. Most people probably wouldn’t notice them or care.
Rated R for language and sexual content–I skipped this part because I don’t read sex scenes. However, it would probably be considered steamy. GREAT WRITING, but I gave it a 4 because I wish she would’ve kept them clean.