Bad Kitty

meet Jasmine, 1 Forensic Supersleuth, 2 Aspiring Model Daughter, 3 And Friend To Animals. 4 One Second She's Trying To Enjoy Her Vegas Vacation, 5 The Next She's Tangled Up In An Outrageous Adventure And Has To Outwit A Crazed Killer Before He Ends Ten Lives, One Of Them Her Own. 6 1 Hi! That's Me! 2 I. Wish. 3 Emphasis On aspiring . Current Status: failing . 4 If friend Means Unsuspecting Victim And animals Means One Very Bad Kitty. 5 And Meet The Cute Guy At The Snack Hut. I Have Priorities. 6 Meep! But I Guess It Winds Up Okay Since kirkus Reviews Says: Inventive, Witty, And Laugh-out-loud Funny, With An Enjoyably Twisty Ending. They Wouldn't Say That If Everyone Died, Right? Right? publishers Weekly quirky Characters Breathe Energy Into Jaffe's (bad Girl, For Adults) Silly, If Sometimes Confusing, Mystery Novel. Wannabe Detective Jasmine, Who Narrates, Is On A Family Vacation At Las Vegas's Venetian Hotel. When A Runaway Cat Attacks Her, She Finds Herself In The Middle Of A Real-life Mystery Involving A Famous Model/actress, Her Fugitive Husband And A Very Handsome Young Man With A British Accent. Jas Seems To Attract Catastrophe (after The Cat Attack, She Runs Into A Wedding, Causing The Cake-and The Bride-to Wind Up In The Pool). Other Characters, Including Her Fashion-savvy Best Friend, Who Drives A Van Called The Pink Pearl, And An Unlikable Cousin, Who Considers Flavored Lip Gloss Dessert, Come Along For The Ride, Offering Assistance And Often Also Ending Up In Trouble (jasmine And Her Best Friends Also All Offer A Funny Running Banter In Tinted Sections At The Bottom Of Many Of The Pages). As Readers Race Along With Jas To Unravel The Mystery, Following Its Many Twists, They May Find Some Plotting Hard To Follow. Also, The Inevitable Final Confrontation Seems More Cinematic Than Authentic. Even So, It's Hard Not To Like A Book With A Bow-wearing Bodyguard Nicknamed The Fabinator And A Main Character Who Grew Up Playing Barbie Crime Scene. Readers Will Likely Find Themselves Quickly Clawing Their Way Through This Fun Novel. Ages 12-up. (feb.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. Meet Jasmine forensic supersleuth and unwitting victim of a naughty feline. All Jasmine really wants is to enjoy her family vacation in Las Vegas. And avoid her evil cousin Alyson and Alyson's best fiend, Veronique. And show her suspicious dad that she can be a Model Daughter. And maybe meet the hot guy she's been eyeing from across the pool. It that too much to ask? Apparently, yes. One moment she's an innocent bylounger, the next the central figure in a Las Vegas-sized mystery. Fortunately, Jasmine is both a forensics enthusiast and possessed of some very, well, special friends. Polly, Tom, and Roxy crash the vacation, BeDazzle Jasmine's wardrobe, and find themselves key players in the most outrageous adventure in a town known for outrageous adventures. All because of a very bad kitty While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Jasmine stumbles upon a murder mystery that she attempts to solve with the help of her friends, recently arrived from California