Do I Know You?

Wow! Pamela Cory’s Do I Know You? is a first-rate page-turner. The second of her trilogy featuring torch singer Hassie Calhoun continues an absorbing story of a talented woman beset with personal problems. We first met Hassie as a runaway teenager in Las Vegas who falls in love with the mob-connected Jake. Troubles ensue and Hassie hears that Jake is dead. Not so, apparently as he makes a cameo appearance in the sequel. The book takes place in the late 1970s and early 1980s as Hassie moves from her late twenties to her early forties. It feels authentic for those times and for its portrayal of a woman torn between career, love and motherhood.

—Len Norman, verified review on Amazon

Hassie Calhoun, the titular heroine of Pamela Cory’s first book, is back, now with a six-year-old son, a marriage of convenience, and an all-consuming passion to succeed in show business. She is older, but not much wiser than the teenager who risked it all in Vegas, and some of her demons haunt her still. The more mature Hassie is just as careless of other people’s feelings, but she is, perversely, more likable, and Cory has surrounded her with a coterie of friends and antagonists as complex as Hassie herself. As Hassie chases her dream from New York to London and back, Cory immerses us in the political, social, and artistic world of the 1970s.

—Alex, verified review on Amazon

Rarely have I read a sequel that follows a character’s development in a clear, well written, believable manner. And what characters! Each added a new dimension to the book. I can’t wait to see what comes next.

—Sandra, review on Amazon

Pamela Cory is a born storyteller, and this sequel to Hassie Calhoun is a real page-turner (which I also loved). It’s glamorous and racy, but also heartfelt and thoughtful. I couldn’t put it down.

—Alun Hood, verified review on Amazon