Amazon Review
Already celebrated as one of the finest comic actresses of her generation, Pauline McLynn bids, with her gently witty first novel Something for the Weekend, to be praised as a writer as well. Leonora "Leo" Street is a Dublin private eye, but not the sort of private eye to whom huge adventures happen; she investigates small infidelities and frauds as a commercial business and is quite content with a quiet life.

"Most of my work is mundane--insurance claims, infidelities, fraud and sometimes a missing person. Jealousy, spite, greed and despair, that's my currency, so I don't usually meet people at their best, even if they have one. The cops deal with the glamorous side--murder, drug-dealing, terrorism and sometimes they wear a uniform. I take up whatever they don't, won't or can't do..."

Review:
Is McLynn's Something for the Weekend a comic novel? Or an off-kilter detective story? Actually, it's both - and within the first few pages, McLynn has demonstrated that she is in the great tradition of Irish humorous writers stretching right back to Flann O'Brien. Heroine Leo Street is greeting her 30th birthday with dismay, stuck in a rainy Dublin with her job as a private investigator bringing in nothing but unsettled bills. And then there is Barry, her permanently resting actor boyfriend who takes advantage of her at every opportunity. But when a particularly unpleasant client sends her to County Kildare to spy on his cheating wife, she chooses as her cover to become a member of a cookery course. And this is only the start of Leo's problems - for, as a culinary expert, she's the kind of person who has difficulty boiling water. Along with the kind of larger-than-life, wry characterisation that is clearly a pre-requisite for such a tale, McLynn is quite as good at the elements of mystery necessary to the plot. And as the layers of marital infidelity are stripped away, Leo finds herself dealing with far more sinister matters than bread-making. This is a comic voice to watch for. (Kirkus UK)