Literary agent Allie Cobb is feeling fine. Her brother Luke is soon to marry her best friend Sloane. Her cat, Ursi, gets along well with her boyfriend Brent. The Cobb Literary Agency is keeping her busy with five manuscripts being considered for publication.

Putting a leash on Ursi, Allie heads out for a morning walk over to check on the construction progress of the Winchester-Cobb Memorial Park. Finding a truckload of mulch dumped in the wrong place, while Allie calls her brother, Ursi starts digging in the pile of mulch. Uncovering the finger of a dead body, Allie calls 911.
Turns out the dead body is Georgie Alonso, the bad boy that stood Allie up for the senior prom back in high school. As an immediate suspect, Allie begins sleuthing between agency work, volunteering for a local mayoral candidate

Allie finds a few other suspects to consider: there’s a $1 million life insurance policy that goes to Lori, the mother of Georgie’s illegitimate daughter Britany; Georgie’s former employer Roger Parke, lost a court case requiring him to pay Georgie $25,000 even though Georgie totaled one of his company’s vehicles while driving under the influence; and Georgie is deeply in debt to a couple of gamblers with bad reputations. Unfortunately, evidence keeps appearing that links Allie to the crime.

J. C. Kenney teases readers with a terrific mystery loaded with red herrings and a suspense driven pace that keeps interest high. Author Kenney continues to build on the warm, authentic character and realistic relationships he created in the series debut. Of course, the feline charmer Ursi makes her presence known throughout Allie’s search for the killer. A Genuine Fix is an entertaining treat for a summer afternoon.

2 stars (at best)
I am so unhappy about this book. I loved the first book in this series so much. A Genuine Fix has been a sheer disappointment.
I will start with the good.
1. The characters are well written, even though they are beyond trite and cringe-worthy
2.. The endorsement to support small local run business is nice.
The bad.
1. I hate that small town cops are always shown as ignorant boffins who will arrest anyone just to make an arrest so the main character has to figure it out. Ridiculous
2. The sheer lunacy of thinking someone waited 15 years and moved back to a small town to murder someone who stood her up for prom is utter insanity.
3. The local police have Allie do a strength test to "prove" she wasn't strong enough to kill the murdered man with some piece of equipment. The first thing I thought of was OJ Simpson and the gloves. Ugh, just exceedingly more ridiculous on every turn of the page.

I just cannot even finish this drivel. I really enjoyed the initial book in this series but A Genuine Fix is so bad it makes me doubt if I will ever try her books again.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher and NetGalley. The views given are my own. #AGenuineFix #NetGalley #JCKenney

In this follow up book, Allie Cobb has moved for real from NYC to southern Indiana. She is hard at work getting her literary agency up and running. She is settling into life in her childhood town. She is even head of the planning committee for the new park in town named after her late father. While checking on the work at the park one morning, she finds a dead body. This turns out to be someone that she had a history with from high school. This of course creates a compromising situation for Allie that she then has to do some investigating in order to clear her name. Allie upsets some people around town with her questions, but eventually she does find the right answer and solve the crime. Overall I enjoyed the book, it flowed well, was well edited without errors. I generally prefer to read books written in first person. There is a large variety of characters in the book to give it a well rounded vibe. However, by the end of the book, I didn't exactly like the main character. It wasn't somethng definite that I can pinpoint, just how some opinions were expressed. I didn't quite connect with Allie.

A charming cozy mystery filled with the joys (and pitfalls) of small town life, a warm, loving family, good friends and good books. Allie Cobb has returned to her hometown of Rushing Creek, Indiana and continued the literary agency started by her late father. She is out for a walk with her cat Ursula, checking the progress of construction at the new town park named after her father when her cat unearths a skeleton. The corpse turns out to be that of Georgie Alonso, a town resident with whom Allie has had a bad relationship in the past. And since Allie was the one to discover the body, she becomes the main suspect and embarks upon her own investigation to make sure she is not the one charged with the crime. This is a great addition to any cozy mystery library and I look forward to see what Allie does next.

What a busy bee, Allie the main character is. Such a strong, quirky individual to lead this mystery. Small town setting including politics, good believable plot, and characters, but I would have like a stronger wrap of of 'why" for the ending of the mystery.