Giveaway - Detectives Don't Wear Seat Belts - Cici McNair

What do they all have in common? Harriet the Spy, Nancy Drew, V.I. Warshawski, Kinsey Milhone. Detectives. All fictional of course. But Cici McNair is the real deal.

Detectives Don't Wear Seatbelts is a memoir I'll be reading in the next little bit. Here's your chance, courtesy of The Hachette Book Group to win yourself a copy.

From the publisher:

"Growing up in Mississippi, Cici McNair was always more the tomboy her mother supported than the Southern belle her father demanded. She escaped her suffocating upbringing the first chance she had to travel the world. Whether working at the Vatican in Rome or consorting with a gunrunner in Haiti, she lived a life of international adventure. When Cici finds herself in New York, divorced, broke, and fashionably starving to death in a Madison Avenue apartment, she impulsively decides to become a private detective.But, as Cici soon learns, the world of P.I.s is tight-knit and made up almost exclusively of former law enforcement officers. By nature, they are a highly suspicious group and are especially wary of a newcomer with an untraceable past. Diligently working her way through the Yellow Pages, doggedly pursuing the slightest lead, Cici is finally hired by a private investigator willing to take a chance. The next day she's working side by side with a pair of seasoned detectives and a skip tracer who is scary to meet but like silk on the phone. She quickly realizes she'll need all her energy and wits to succeed in this new world.Being a private investigator is as exciting and liberating as Cici ever dreamed, from creating a false identity on the spot on her first case in the field to surviving adrenaline-rushing car chases. Working with law enforcement, she goes undercover, dealing with the ruthless Born to Kill gang in Chinatown and the Middle Eastern counterfeiters west of Broadway. A detailed account of the hidden world and real-life cases of a P.I., this action-packed memoir is as entertaining as any detective novel you've ever read."

Five (!) copies to be won. Open to US and Canada, no po boxes please. To be entered leave the name of a fictional detective or detective series. An extra entry for followers ( please let me know in a separate comment) Runs until Wed Oct 21 at 6pm EST.

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