Getting Rid of Bradley

by Jennifer Crusie

Lucy Savage is not having a good week.

Her cheating husband, Bradley, lobbed the final insult when he stood her up in divorce court. A dye job gone wrong has left her hair green. And someone is trying to kill her. To top it off, sexy cop Zack Warren is certain the very same man Lucy is trying to wash right out of her hair is the same Bradley he wants to arrest for embezzlement. When someone shoots at her and then her car blows up, Zack decides she needs twenty-four-hour police protection. Next thing Lucy knows, Zack has moved in to her big Victorian house, making them both sleepless . . . and not just from things that go bump in the night!

• ISBN10: 0373772211
• ISBN13: 9780373772216
• Publish Date: 1 January 2002 (first published 1 May 1994)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 19 December 2011
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Harlequin Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 329
• Language: English

Reviews

[MurderByDeath]

In the mood for the book form of a sitcom?  You can't go wrong with Jennifer Crusie.

Getting Rid of Bradley is about as far from reality as you can get without actually veering into Science Fiction or Fantasy.  Lucy has just divorced Bradley after catching him in her house with a blonde.  Zach is a cop of the reckless, gorgeous variety chasing down an elusive embezzler and suspects her ex-husband might be who he's after.   Hilarity and romance ensues amid bullets and bombs.  Oh, and dogs.  There are a lot of dogs.

I love Crusie's writing because she creates great characters, the kind I'd enjoy being friends with, and because she always catches my funny bone in just the right spot.  Not laugh-out-loud funny a la Evanovich, but consistently humorous and entertaining.  No dark, heavy, emotional moments are going to be found between the covers of this book; just a lot of wildly improbable action, witty dialogue, and a smattering of sex and romance.

I won't call Getting Rid of Bradley one of her best, but it is one I've enjoyed reading more than once and I know I'll enjoy reading again.

[jamiereadthis]

This book had me cackling out loud. Zack is not your normal romantic hero, which means that I love him. He’s like a stocky little pit bull with all his nerves inside out, running hot as a furnace. By the time her hair is dyed green and he’s tearing up kitchen floors, this book was a keeper.