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Another great and entertaining mystery.

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2012

When the book starts up you meet Belinda who has recently moved to Atlanta and who has recently joined a carpool with three other women from her office. Part of the reason the women carpool together is because they live outside of the perimeter of the city and traffic is usually a nightmare trying to drive into work. She's been able to join the carpool because a woman that was once a part of it died a few months before from an accident involving an elevator at work. During the drive all of the women like listening to a particular radio station because the man who does the traffic report has quite a sexy voice. In fact he ends up reporting the very accident Belinda gets herself into when she runs into the back of the police car in front of her. From there she meets the very handsome cop who is quite irritated and she ends up with three tickets from the adventure that morning and ends up missing a very important meeting she was supposed to have been in that morning.
When she ends up having a very public argument with her boss that really should have gotten her fired, instead the woman promises her a job promotion which would be giving her quite a hefty raise which is unusual in the economy. She keeps that news to herself meanwhile all the while continuing to go on her carpool as usual as well as some concerns about some of the numbers that don't ad up quite as well as they should on some financial papers. The dreaded employee evaluations are coming up and everyone's nervous. Belinda goes into her evaluation and things pretty much go about as well as she hoped. She's not sure how much longer she can keep it from everyone but she has two weeks to think about it as Margo is finally going on that vacation to Hawaii that had previously been postponed.
After getting her car back from being repaired Belinda is incredibly shocked to discover something shocking in the trunk. The rest of the story is solving the mystery of what's found in her trunk and whether it has anything to do with what happened to the last person that had her position in the company. Meanwhile she finds herself with the potential for romance with the cop and the air traffic reporter.
A subplot of the book is concerning what is actually in an envelope that she receives from her husband who after the ceremony couldn't bring himself to sign the marriage certificate. Part of the reason why she moved to Atlanta to get away from her failed marriage back home and give herself a chance for a fresh start. Throughout the course of the book we find her picking up the envelope and your curiousity builds about what exactly is contained inside. You do get an answer to that question at the very end of the book in a special epilogue.

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Kate Moore

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Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2019

This was not a book I would recommend. The whole time I was reading it I couldn't decide which was worse. 1. That I spent money on it. or 2 that I was wasting valuable reading time on this. My husband asked me early on in the book what it was about. I said "nothing has happened yet, I don't know what it's about." He asked me again later, what it was about. I still didn't know. (I was reading it on my Kindle, so I could check my reading progress. I was at 25%.) I said it was advertised as mystery, but still nothing. The "mystery" didn't start til I hit 55% The only reason I powered through the book and didn't quit was that I've read several books by this author and they've been good. So I was hopeful that she could pull it out.

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Another great and entertaining mystery.

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2012

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ChristyBee

Chick Lit meets Mystery

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2012

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Kill the Competition centers around Belinda and her hilarious group of carpoolers/girlfriends. She hits a cop car on the freeway her first day driving the carpool, setting off the events that unfold over the remainder of the book. The friendship of the group is severely tested when they inadvertently get wrapped up in murder investigation.

The one thing that bugged me was the fact that Belinda was in a front end collision, but somehow ended up with a damaged trunk latch? That took away from the story a bit for me because I kept wondering how that would happen. Also, the sauna scene was...interestng. The book is a bit dated. I think it was published about 10 years ago. Hard to tell when purchasing Kindle books. Not a big deal, but worth mentioning.

I really enjoyed this book because it was more of a light mystery and read more like chick lit. If chick lit is your thing, you will enjoy this story, as it never got too heavy or scary. I will read more from Stephanie Bond.

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Nicola MansfieldTop Contributor: DC Comics

it was a lot of fun I really enjoyed them all

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2016

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This book is pure and simple fluff but I admit I had a ball with it. Chick Lit with capital letters, this is not my typical type of read. I was attracted to the southern setting, Atlanta Georgia, and the fact that it was labelled "romantic mystery". The mystery isn't much but it does keep you guessing and surprise you because everybody has secrets that don't get told until the very end. Mostly, though this is a character book. Typical southern fiction with the quirky characters. The book revolves around Belinda and the three women she carpools to work with every day. it was a lot of fun I really enjoyed them all. Yes, it is a romance but it's pretty light and both guys she liked had their moments for me. An all around fun, light read!

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A. Bond

Kill The Competition!

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2013

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Belinda just moved from Cincinnati to Atlanta to take a job at a big firm. Things start going downhill when, while driving to work, she rear ends a police officer. She is late for an important meeting with her boss, who later is found dead. Numerous suspects abound! Could one of Belinda's new friends be a killer? Could Belinda become the next victim? This adult funny romantic mystery is an extremely fun read. The mystery is the prominent element, with just the right amount of romance and humor. The main character's move across country and acclimating to a different environment, both physically and socially, plus the strange encounters with the local citizenry elicits many humorous moments. The drawbacks: this book really needed one more read through before it was published. There were too many editing mistakes for an author I feel is gifted.

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Gaele

Starting over isn't a recipe for mayhem is it?

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2012

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This was the second of Stephanie Bond's titles that I read. I started with a book penned later than this, which references the "advice manual for Grown Women" that the characters in the carpool have decided to create during the nightmare commutes to work in Atlanta.

What was funny is that this book grabbed mu attention from the start - mentioning an area and a situation with traffic that is all too common on the news here. And it continued with a theme of starting anew, being the 'new kid' in the room, a horrible boss ( we have all had those ) and the amazing intimacy of the time spent in commuter traffic with 3 other people you don't know.

A thoroughly enjoyable read, with a whodunit tossed in there that was a surprise to me, at least.

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Nanny Talbot

A New Friend For Me!

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2017

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Loved reading this book! The holidays were over and the blahs had settled in. The weather was damp and cold outdoors. I was in need of something interesting to grab my attention so I picked up my iPad and discovered I had previously ordered, but not read, Kill The Competition. So I started reading and began my winter blahs recovery immediately! I loved the story line, the characters (especially the love interests), the suspense, the mystery, the beginning, the tangled middle, the end, and laughing out loud again! Ah! The perfect elixir! I recommend it? Oh yes!

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Liralen

A light read

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2013

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A novel about a jilted northern bride who moved south to Atlanta to start anew. An independent lady, she joins a carpool to lighten the strain of her commute only to find friendship and danger. This essentially is a light read, good for travel or vacation, with a few life lessons sprinkled in for good measure. The need for true friendship that is frighteningly open, the need for love to be independent and dependent, and the need to be true to yourself while trying to succeed. A good mix of romance ad mystery keeps the reader guessing on which man will Belinda choose and who killed her unbearable boss.

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Lorraine Darrell

Page Turner!

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2014

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I was glad that Stephanie told us what was in the envelope from Vince, because I did want to know, but I did not keep wondering about it while reading the story.

She should continue with these characters and update us with their lives. Or even better would be what is happending with Vince and whether or not Belinda would find out how lucky she was that he did not sign the marriage certificate.

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Robinread

Each book just gets better!

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2013

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This is only my third Stephanie Bond book and I must say that each books gets better than the last. I always expect these books to be Mystery Lites, but even though they are more entertaining and less intense than many mysteries, they are very well-written and the characters believable and likeable. I have one more of these in my collection and plan to add many more. I give this one 4.8 stars!

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moppetage

Great light hearted romantic mystery with a few laugh out loud moments

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2013

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I really like that I came across Stephanie Bond, especially her romantic mysteries which offer the 'fluffy bunny' of a Mills & Boon with a little less swooning, slightly flawed characters a la Janet Evanovich and a mystery just intense enough to make you want to keep turning the pages. Her humour is mostly subtle but still enough to make you smile and there's usually a few laugh out loud moments as well. Best yet her books offer brilliant value, they are cheap enough to download plentifully and I've never felt like I've wasted my money on a single one yet - and this must be about the 8th i've read recently.

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