"Now this is what you call a really bad day!"

By: Toni McGee Causey

Genres: Humor | Mystery

Posted: August 8, 2007

Bobbie Faye's day began very badly when her trailer lurched on its side and filled with water from a broken pipe. She does not need this grief on today of all days -- the social worker is due to evaluate her capability as a foster parent for her niece. While contending with the flooded trailer, Bobbie Faye receives a phone call from a criminal who's kidnapped her brother. He demands the only valuable item her family owns -- her Contraband Queen tiara that has no real value except sentimental. When Bobbie Faye runs to the bank to extract it from her lock box, she becomes involved in a bank heist. The bank robbers steal the money -- and her tiara! -- leading Bobbie Faye to chase after them.

From there on, Bobbie Faye's day becomes a disaster in progress. On the run, she uses all the skills she's learned from being self-sufficient, since her family is a bunch of undependable losers (but she loves them anyway). She's proficient with guns, can hot wire boats and talk her way out of every imaginable trouble. Along the way to recover her tiara, Bobbie Faye revisits and involves ex-boyfriends (which includes criminals and a cop), leading them all on a merry chase through the Louisiana swamp.

Ms. Causey has created in Bobbie Faye a funny and endearing character who will capture readers' hearts with her strengths and vulnerabilities. Action-packed with zany one- liners, BOBBIE FAYE'S VERY (very, very, very) BAD DAY is a winner that goes on the keeper shelf.

Book Summary

Bobbie Faye Sumrall knows that a day without disaster is a day in someone else's life. Criminals have kidnapped her good-for-nothing brother and are demanding her Contraband Queen tiara--the only thing of her mama's she inherited--as random. So Bobbie Faye has to outwit the police, organized crime, former boyfriends, and a hostage she never intended to take (but who turns out to be damn sexy!), in order to rescue her brother, keep custody of her niece, and get back in time to take her place as Queen in the Lake Charles Contraband Festival (think Mardi Gras, with more drinking and pirates).

Luckily, Bobbie Faye knows how to handle guns, outsmart angry mama bears, drive a speedboat, and get herself out of- -and into--almost every kind of trouble. If only that pesky state police detective (who also happens to be a pissed-off ex-boyfriend) would stay out of her way . . .

Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day by Toni McGee Causey

Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day

by: Toni McGee Causey

Bobbie Faye #1

St. Martin's Griffin
May 1, 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Featuring: Bobbie Faye Sumrall
336 pages
ISBN: 0312354487
EAN: 9780312354480
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