Mrs. Million - Hardcover

Hautman, Pete

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684832437 ISBN 13: 9780684832432

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1999

Synopsis

When Barbaraannette Quinn wins the lottery and offers a million dollar reward to anyone willing to drag her missing husband, Bobby, home to Cold Rock, she discovers that mixing love and money can be a mistake

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Review:

"The Denver Post"

Entertaining....Pete Hautman is among the writers whose name alone promises a great read.

"Omaha World-Herald" (NE)

"Mrs. Million" is a heck of a fun novel and deliciously written, too.

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Besides being a hillarious, fast-moving read..."Mrs. Million" is a first-rate adventure yarn.

"Newsday" (New York)

Fun and engaging. Read it for the heroine who is tough, sensitive, and entangled in a family she both loves and hates.

"San Diego Union-Tribune"

"Mrs. Million" is a hot-dog-at-the-ballgame book: You can?t believe you ate it; you can?t believe you ate it so fast; you probably could eat another one.

"Detroit Free Press"

A winding and surprisingly satisfying story....This book is a sweet-dizzy ride that shows Hautman is one of those rare authors who can love his characters while laughing at them.

"State Journal" (Lansing, MI)

The action gets fast, furious, and deadly with unexpected plot twists....If you?re seeking entertaining, fast-paced, light reading: look no further -- Pete Hautman has arrived.

"Baton Rouge Magazine" (LA)

The tale is outrageous and decidedly funny with a tightly drawn plot, suspense and even violence....The whole thing has a wonderful lunatic tinge that brings crime fiction to a near hysterical level.

"Midwest Book Review"

A fabulous tale that will thrill readers who relish an offbeat novel. The story line never lets up, but as in all of Hautman's delicious books, the eccentric characters control the plot...and bring a brilliant mystery to life.

"Los Angeles Times" A winner.

From the Back Cover:

Barbaraannette Quinn loved her husband, Bobby, right up until the day he got in his truck, left their home in Cold Rock, Minnesota, and never returned. She has waited six years for him to walk back through her door, and now that she has hit the Powerball lottery, she's willing to give a million dollars to anyone who can make that happen.

Bobby and his girlfriend, Phlox, decide that she will turn him in, collect the million bucks, and then they'll both hightail it back to Arizona to live happily ever after. Unfortunately, everybody wants a piece of Bobby -- including a pair of hulking good ole boys, who figure Bobby owes them, and a sociopathic pretty boy fresh out of St. Cloud Correctional, who notices that Barbaraannette's offer doesn't require that Bobby arrive alive. Toss in a shy marathon-running banker, a lovestruck humanities professor, and Barbaraannette's kleptomaniac mother, and things start getting a little hot in Cold Rock.

"I've really started something, haven't I?" Barbaraannette says. What she has started is a crackpot criminal conspiracy in Pete Hautman's funniest novel yet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0684832437
• ISBN 13: 9780684832432
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280