Agnes and the Hitman

By: Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

Take one food writer named Cranky Agnes, add a hitman named Shane, mix them together with a Southern mob wedding, a missing necklace, two annoyed flamingos, and a dog named Rhett, and you've got a recipe for a sexy, hilarious novel about the disastrous side of true love...

Agnes Crandall's life goes awry when a dognapper invades her kitchen one night, seriously hampering her attempts to put on a wedding that she's staked her entire net worth on. Then a hero climbs through her bedroom window. His name is Shane - no last name, just Shane - and he has his own problems: He's got a big hit scheduled, a rival trying to take him out, and an ex-mobster uncle asking him to protect some little kid named Agnes. When he finds out that Agnes isn't so little, that his uncle has forgotten to mention a missing five million bucks he might have lost in Agnes' house, and that his last hit was a miss, Shane's life isn't looking so good, either. Then a bunch of lowlifes come looking for the money, a string of hitmen show up for Agnes, and some wedding guests gather with the intent to throw more than rice. Agnes and Shane have their hands full with greed, florists, treachery, flamingos, mayhem, mothers of the bride, and - most dangerous of all - each other.

©2007 Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer (P)2007 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Great audio book

I Loved this book in hard copy. The voice actress does a great job at making the character voices distinct.

One of my favorites

Just the right amount of everything. It's funny, sexy, dangerous, and has good food with a southern backdrop. The narrator does all of the characters justice.

One of my absolute favorite books of all time!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes. The story is great. It has a dash of intrigue, a pinch of romance, and a huge dollop of insanity. I love it!

Who was your favorite character and why?

It's a toss up between Shane who wants to fix Agnes' world and Carpenter who never blinks at the madness around him.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Southern fried crazy! I don't know who'd play Agnes, but Joe Manganiello would make a delicious Shane.

A funny story

I totally enjoyed the story and found some parts laugh out loud funny. Would recommend.

Non-stop laughs!

I absolutely loved this book! The story line was unique and you never knew what was going to happen next. I laughed throughout the entire book! The only downfall to this book was part of the narration. Anytime a character "thought" something, the narrative became quiet and had an echo effect added to it. This made it difficult to understand what was being said/thought. Overall I did love the reader and thought she did a wonderful job with the story.

over and over again

Where does Agnes and the Hitman rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

TOP I love this book, it was the first one I listened too of J.C.'s and it opened the door for a while new genera of books to read, Mary Kay Andrews and so on.. It is one that I recommend to friends and family time and time again.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Agnes and the Hitman?

oh man so hard to choose, I am very fond of the flamingos though

Which scene was your favorite?

the bringing in of the bridge

If you could take any character from Agnes and the Hitman out to dinner, who would it be and why?

Carpenter... he is scary and sexy all in the same.

Agnes and the hitman

Why did they change the color of Agnes‘s glasses in the Audiobook to black from red? It makes no sense it’s a little thing, but they even have the picture of the red glasses when they show the book cover and yet throughout the book the narrator says black glasses. Drove me nuts every time she did it

Very entertaining!

The most hilarious hot mess mystery. Loved it. My mom and I listened to it together on a long road trip and it had us laughing all the time. We did have to skip forward during a couple raunchy parts, but definitely a joy to listen to.

If Cooks can Kill.

I read most of Jennifer Cruise’s books quite some time ago and with the 85% off sale I picked up knowing I enjoyed this book the first time but couldn’t remember the storyline that well. Glad I did as I enjoyed it the second time around just as much. Fun little romance, with light lines of mystery and mob involvement in the plot. Narrator is pretty good. The production on how they portrayed the inner voices of the characters was enjoyable, it pulled of the sarcasm and humor well, you could tell it was their inner voices vs the characters talking. The only problem I had with it was if you’re driving it was hard to hear as it is lower in volume that the normal voices. The inner voice of the doctor/therapist cracked me up.

Great fun and a lot of adventure!

Jennifer's back with her quick wit, great humor and smokin' romance and with Bob Mayer's fast-moving action, this mystery/action/romance makes my favorite of Jennifer's books yet! The characters are off the wall and somehow still so believable. I wish they wrote together more often.