Detectives Don’t Wear Seat Belts by Cici McNair
Title: Detectives Don’t Wear Seat Belts: True Adventures of a Female P.I.
Author/website: Cici McNair (Hachette Book Group USA page)
354 pages
Publisher: Center Street
Publication date: September ’09
Genre: Memoir
Would I recommend it: DNF’d @ pg. 260 of 354
Journal notes: If Detectives Don’t Wear Seat Belts had been billed as a fictional story it would have been decent. As a memoir there was a lot that didn’t add up for me, too many details missing. ** Updated 11/4/09 **
Growing up in Mississippi, Cici McNair was always more the tomboy her mother supported than the Southern belle her father demanded. She escaped her suffocating upbringing the first chance she had to travel the world. Whether working at the Vatican in Rome or consorting with a gunrunner in Haiti, she lived a life of international adventure. When Cici finds herself in New York, divorced, broke, and fashionably starving to death in a Madison Avenue apartment, she impulsively decides to become a private detective.
But, as Cici soon learns, the world of P.I.s is tight-knit and made up almost exclusively of former law enforcement officers. By nature, they are a highly suspicious group and are especially wary of a newcomer with an untraceable past. Diligently working her way through the Yellow Pages, doggedly pursuing the slightest lead, Cici is finally hired by a private investigator willing to take a chance. 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. 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. 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.
(Detectives Don’t Wear Seat Belts was provided to me by Brianne of Hachette Book Group USA. I was not paid and will be sending this book to another book blogger 
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Sorry this one didn’t do it for you. I actually kind of enjoyed it.
Oh man, I hate to hear that – this one’s near the top of my TBR pile.
I know this book is a big hit with other readers. It’s billed as a memoir and I’m not saying it’s not but…
To me it just didn’t add up.