“Stay at Home Dead” grabs the reader from the first paragraph and never lets go until the final ditzy finish. Deuce Winters is a stay at home dad who has a problem from the very beginning of the novel. He finds a dead body in the back seat of his minivan after he shops with his daughter at a local supermarket. He and his wife later have to deal with an odd array of characters including a midget private detective and the mothers at a local school where his daughter is a student. Allen in generous doses mixes in a dash of mystery while presenting many funny situations. “Stay at Home Dead” is the first of a series of novels that is bound to please any fan of Janet Evanovich, or Donald E. Westlake.
Stay at Home Dead
Jeffrey Allen
Kensington Publishing Corp
119 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018
9780758266897, $7.99, www.amazon.com www.kensingtonbooks.com
