This is the first book in a mystery series featuring burned-out-nurse turned insurance investigator Pauline Sokol.

Pauline Sokol (yeah, she refers to herself by both first and last names quite a bit--it got a little annoying) decides she's got to quit nursing before she gives in to the temptation to take a poke at one of those irritating little kids. So, she calls in a favor and gets a job as an insurance investigator.

The first case she's sent on, she ends up having to go undercover... as a nurse.

It's a fun story. It would be even more fun if I hadn't read Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. This is just too much of the same. The similarities--the slimy boss, the sexy mysterious mentor, the cross-dressing co-worker, etc., etc.--were distracting to the point that they interfered with enjoying the book.

What was good was the realistic medical details, and the convoluted mystery, especially once Pauline's casual boyfriend gets a job at the medical center she's investigating.

I believe I have the second book in the series in my TBR pile. I'm crossing my fingers that the annoying/distracting bits were confined to the first book.

If you enjoy Stephanie Plum, Myron Bolitar and other smartly written, part time investigators with quirky friends, families, impersonality's, you will enjoy this series as well.

As many others have said, this is a poor clone of the Stephanie Plum series. Almost every Plum character has a match in this book, and it was disappointing. The book itself had a good story line. I enjoy laugh out loud books; this one didn't provide much, but did have some amusing scenes. I had to mentally stop myself from reading "Ranger" when the character was "Jagger".

Overall, I was very disappointed. I will read the reviews from her future books to see if she has managed to get over her Plum fixation, and has expanded the storylines to include other characters.

Unfortunately, I wasn't too impressed with this title. I muddled my way through chapter five but was unable to finish. Although the premise of the book was a good one (burnt out nurse becomes a P.I.), something about the character of Pauline Sokol just irritated me. Others might find it a lot more enjoyable than I did, though!

I searched the reviews and was glad to see someone put into words exactly what I was thinking the whole time I read this book. The whole story read like a Plum imitation from dinner at the parents house to the mysterious stranger/perfect man! I don't know how Ms. Avocato gets away with publishing a book that she hardly had to write!