Detectives Don't Wear Seat Belts: True Adventures of a Female P.I.
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (919 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1599951878 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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John W. Hill said Great book!!. Simply put this is a great book. I loved it, couldn't put it down and felt like it included me in Cici McNair's struggle to survive in the male dominated world of international private investigation. It wasn't like I was reading about someone else's experience, it was like I was right beside her when she was doing servailance, tailing subjects and sorting out scams, questionable characters . Detectives Don't Wear Seatbelts-Cici McNair Lauren Cannavino Cici McNair weaves her memoir through the deep south of Mississippi and the streets of New York City. After traveling the world and trying her hand at a variety of careers, Cici decides to become a private investigator. Cici soon learns that becoming a P.I., especially a female one, is not as easy as she first thought. When the charismatic Vinny Pardo in New York City finally gives her a ch. A Non-Southern Belle at Her Finest Christine Fernandez - The IE Mommy You have to read this book. I loved it. I really truly did. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I have actually worked for a few Private Investigators in my lifetime, although none as colorful or adventurous as the groupsCici worked withI could still relate to so much that she discovered within the P.I. world.Cici McNair has lived more then one lifetime of adventures. I enjoyed her though
By nature, they are a highly suspicious group and are especially wary of a newcomer with an untraceable past. She escaped her suffocating upbringing the first chance she had to travel the world. The next day she's working side by side with a pair of seasoned detectives and a skip tracer who is scary to meet but like silk on the phone. She quickly realizes she'll need all her energy and wits to succeed in this new world.Being a private investigator is as exciting and liberating as Cici ever dreamed, from creating a false identity on the spot on her first case in the field to surviving adrenaline-rushing car chases. A detailed account of the hidden world and real-life cases of a P.I., this action-packed memoir is as entertaining as any detective novel you've ever read.. Growing up in Mississippi, Cici McNair was always more the tomboy her mother supported than the Southern belle her father demanded. Working with law enforcement, she goes undercover, dealing with the ruthless Born to Kill gang in Chinatown and the Middle Eastern counterfeiters west of Broadway. When Cici finds herself in New York, divorced, broke, and fashionably starving to death in a Madison Avenue apartment, she impulsivel
McNair's crafted vignettes of low-rent detectives are like chocolate truffles: dark, bittersweet, and addictive." (Bruce Schimmel, founder and columnist, Philadelphia City Paper 2009-01-00)"One of the few female members of this hard-living, stained-tie fraternity, McNair declassifies the donkey work and dangers that are all part of the job description for those who would live for the chase." (Phoebe Eaton, novelist and screenwriter 2009-01-00)"Detectives may not wear seat belts, but you definitely should hang onto your seat when you read Cici McNair's saucy, smart memoir about a hot female P.I. This is a memoir written by someone who made her own life into an adventure story, and who knows exactly how to grab your hand and pull you along." (Perri Klass, author of 'The Mercy Rule' 2009-01-00)"This
A graduate of BriarcliffCollege in New York, she worked as a researcher for CBC-TV's award winning documentary on organized crime called "Connections" in Toronto. Cici McNair, P.I., was born and raised in Mississippi. She was also a news writer, on-air newscaster, and producer of documentaries for Vatican radio in Rome. Ms. She also works as a court-appointed Homicide Investigator handling both capital and non-capital cases. She h