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.

silly and fun

a farce and a mystery all in one. Very fun for a driving listen

Narrator not the best

Not great at doing male voices...or accents...or differentiating female voices.
An alright story if you can get past the narration.

My fave!

One of my favorite Crusie/Mayer books. The narration takes a bit of getting used to but this is one I go back to again and again. It's funny, suspenseful and a little bit sexy.

Ya Gotta Luv Agnes

When I saw this book I figure how bad could it be. I enjoy stories about odd groups of people. I fell in love with Agnes and Shane from the beginning. Listening to the story I get to see it at a different way. Once you start you want to finish.

Lots of Cursing

Okay, I guess I should have expected this given the title, but seriously, listening to this book was like watching an episode of the Sopranos. The book had an outrageous plot and some pretty funny scenes, the characters were interesting and overall this was just like other Jennifer Crusie books. If you don't mind the cursing and enjoyed other Crusie novels then you will probably enjoy this one too. Oh yeah, the narrator did a good job.

Agnes and the Hit man is fabulous!

This book is funny, entertaining, silly, wonderful, irreverent, and so much fun for either reading or listening. The story line is great and has a lot of surprises. The descriptions of people, places, and events are colorful and paint a picture that lets the imagination run.
The characters have personalities..quite rare by many published authors recently.

great book, parts of the recording are hard to...

this is a great book, however some of the dialogue is meant to be internal dialogue and is hard to hear

Great story!

Full of plot twists. Was a great listen. Wish there was a follow up.

Fun story but you can't hear the thoughts!!!

I had read this book in paperback and knew i would enjoy listening while driving back and forth to work. But due to actually trying to hear it while on the road, the only way I could hear the constant thoughts of the characters was to turn the sound WAY up. It got so annoying that i put the sound to an acceptible level and ignored all the thinking going on. There's got to be a better way to express thoughts without making them so quiet you can only hear them in silent surroundings.

A classic must have

I fell in love with this book years ago when I read the entire book in a few days. I was so ecstatic to find the audiobook years later. Agnus is a lovely and real deal character. I loved the narration throughout the audiobook. The funny one liners of the characters and real life friendships was top notch.