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A little while ago I saw the movie The Whole Nine Yards with Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry. It was a comedy about a man who discovers that his neighbor is a hit-man. Some premise, I thought. A charming sociopath kills people for a living, and we’re supposed to find that funny. What burned me…
I wish I could have given this book a higher grade. I started to, but as I began writing the review, my thoughts began to focus and I realized Snowfall, while being a pretty tight page-turner, left me vaguely unsatisfied. There was nothing really wrong with it, but nothing exemplary either. It was quick read…
Who’da thunk it? Lofting, the first erotica I’ve ever reviewed, is flat-out the most intellectual, vocabulary-straining book I’ve read all year. Somebody once likened reading Judith Ivory to “sipping coffee in my kitchen, being told stories by an intelligent friend.” Well, Alma Marceau writes like that intelligent friend might sound in the wee hours, after…
What a find! The Wildest Shore is really different from anything else I’ve read lately. The pirate is not a handsome, devil-may-care swashbuckler. The ladies’ maid is not bosom friends with her sweet-tempered employer. The tropical island paradise features leeches, headhunters, and bugs the size of your fist. Different is good. Anne Hazlett is a…
Jacob’s Proposal is the first of a trilogy of Silhouette Desire romances by Eileen Wilks, detailing the hasty marriages of the three West brothers, confirmed bachelors all. How well you like these books will probably hinge on your tolerance for wills and trusts with weird stipulations, because that’s the device driving this whole series. All…
I have nothing against books written from the first person point of view. As a matter of fact, many of my all-time favorites are written in the first person. But in the case of Whispers of Goodbye, it did not help the story one bit. The story opens with Catherine de Claire Reed living in…
Lila Maxwell is secretary to a vice president of a jewelry company, Colette, Inc. She longs for a home, a husband, a family, and the stability that her childhood lacked. She’s also in love with her boss, Nick Camden, a sexy but distant loner. One day her landlady, Rose, lends Lila a pretty brooch, promising…
You say you’re in the mood sink your teeth into a Big Misunderstanding? How about a wagonload of them. You say you believe in wild and unlikely coincidences? We have a couple of doozies. You hankerin’ for a good kidnapping or two? Well, step right up. Oh, and we mustn’t forget several incidents of mistaken…
Author Josie Litton may have chosen to be a mystery, but the success of her books isn’t. Between the brilliance of the marketing scheme surrounding her and her excellent writing – as defined by her enjoyable characters and exciting plots – little is left to chance. The finale to her “debut” medieval Viking trilogy, Come…
Can a big, tough, tight-lipped sheriff be a beta hero? Witt Gavin in The Lawman Takes A Wife sure is. Witt is all John Wayne rugged on the outside, but inside he is as soft and sweet as the chocolate drops that he loves so much. It doesn’t take him long to find the candy…
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