{"id":6315,"date":"2025-03-17T06:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=6315"},"modified":"2025-03-17T06:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:34:51","slug":"nikki-knight-hound-of-the-bonnevilles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/nikki-knight-hound-of-the-bonnevilles\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Knight: Hound of the Bonnevilles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grace the Hit Mom #2<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is the second book in the deliciously high concept \u201cHit Mom\u201d series.\u00a0 Knight\u2019s heroine, Grace Adair, only takes out those who truly deserve it.\u00a0 And she does it in an untraceable way.\u00a0 Book one had many details of the way her organization functions; this second book deals more with fallout of actions taken by Grace and her fellow murder-y sisters.\u00a0 While this sounds intense, humor is on tap here.<\/p>\n

While Grace is a \u201chit mom\u201d she\u2019s also a mom-mom, as well as an editor and a sometime practicing lawyer.\u00a0 In other words, she\u2019s extremely busy.\u00a0 She and her husband, who have a solid and affectionately loving marriage, share a fairly low maintenance son but her life still revolves around school drop off and pick up time.\u00a0 It\u2019s truly amazing what she manages to fit in between those times.<\/p>\n

In this novel, which is, among other things, a courtroom drama, Grace\u2019s husband asks her to take point on a case.\u00a0 The defendant is a pretty unappealing, privileged and overbearing woman who carries a rare Russian toy terrier around in her purse.\u00a0 Grace\u2019s first mission: to get the purse dog admitted to court as an emotional support animal.\u00a0 Mission achieved; she must now help her husband to defend the woman who is charged with killing her used car dealer husband.\u00a0 The woman insists on her innocence, but things look black for her.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile things are not quite right on the hit mom side of things either.\u00a0 As Grace is looking into a kill that may or may not have been righteous, she\u2019s also asked to look into the fianc\u00e9e of her \u201chandler\u201d who is thrilled about her upcoming later in life wedding and marriage.\u00a0 This part of the book is smaller than the courtroom side of things, but the clues unearthed add to the solution.<\/p>\n

Knight also has a deft hand with portraying suburban life.\u00a0 Like all cozy mysteries, community is key, and Grace has a strong, supportive and nicely diverse community of friends and fellow parents.\u00a0 Knight portrays pretty realistically the work that goes into taking care of a child, from school pick ups to meals to homework.<\/p>\n

One of the clues is a \u201958 Bonneville which seems to be swoon worthy for every man in the book.\u00a0 For a light touch, there\u2019s the tendency of her huge dog to attack blow up lawn decorations (it\u2019s the holiday season, so there are lots of them).\u00a0 Knight is a very gifted storyteller.\u00a0 Her books are tight and the story elements she includes are there for a reason, so pay attention!\u00a0 The way her book ultimately knits together is very satisfying for the reader,\u00a0 and the humor makes it all go down easily.\u00a0 This is a light, funny book, but there\u2019s a brain behind it.\u00a0 This writer is really one of the best cozy writers at work at the moment.\u00a0\u00a0— Robin Agnew<\/em><\/p>\n

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Grace the Hit Mom #2 This is the second book in the deliciously high concept \u201cHit Mom\u201d series.\u00a0 Knight\u2019s heroine, Grace Adair, only takes out those who truly deserve it.\u00a0 And she does it in an untraceable way.\u00a0 Book one had many details of the way her organization functions; this second book deals more with … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[328,2038,2039,2036,2037,36,989,1276],"class_list":["post-6315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-cozy","tag-grace-the-hit-mom","tag-holidays","tag-hound-of-the-bonnevilles","tag-keylight-books","tag-legal","tag-nikki-knight","tag-robin-agnew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6317,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions\/6317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}