Giveaway: DETECTIVES DON'T WEAR SEAT BELTS by Cici McNair

The folks at Hachette Book Group have generously authorized me to give away five (5) copies of DETECTIVES DON'T WEAR SEAT BELTS by Cici McNair. I haven't read this one yet, but I'm eagerly awaiting my review copy -- it looks like a fun and informative read!

Rules for entering this giveaway are at the bottom of this post.

DETECTIVES DON'T WEAR SEAT BELTS

by Cici McNair

Publisher: Center Street

Category: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Format: HARDCOVER BOOK

Publish Date: 9/23/2009

Price: $22.99/$27.99

ISBN: 9781599951874

Pages: 368

Size: 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"

Description (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.

Click here to read an excerpt.

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• Winners will have 48 hours to respond to my email announcing that they have won; if I don't hear from a winner, I will draw another name.

• Deadline for entry is 11:59 p.m. EST on Saturday, October 24, 2009.

Thank you to Brianne
at Hachette Book Group

for making this giveaway possible.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.