Why, oh why don't boats have brakes?

Not having read a Hetta Coffey book before (this is book 7) but intrigued by the cover and wooed by the voice of the narrator, I requested and was given a complimentary copy of Just Different Devils, without any obligation, by the rights holder via Audiobook Boom. Thank you so much: I have now discovered a new and excellent series to explore.

Completely standalone, the reader meets Hetta and friend Jan, plus dizzy dog No Thant and a dolphin they call Bubbles off the coast of Mexico. (Yes, lots of others, too. Naughty, old enough to know better, all of them.) Hetta is offered, and accepts, a profitable job to take out an anonymous client on her beloved boat for a month. Trouble is, there have been reports of people being attacked and killed in the area by giant squids. But this job will pay out a lot of money, so...
Surprise. The client is someone she knows only too well.

A good mystery story with fabulous characters (colourful and not quite honest), funny, cheeky and great dialogue, all performed with a delicious Texan accent by narrator, Stevie Puckett. So absorbed in the production, this reader barely noticed if the individual characters were voiced distinctively (so I guess they were!) other than wincing slightly at her dreadful Scottish accent for the attractive bagpipe playing man who moors his boat next to hers. But what did that matter? It was all tremendous fun.

A sniff of the sea, a frolic with a dolphin, friends united on the slightly seedy side of honest - delicious fun. Recommended.

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