Blind Faith

While I was reading Blind Faith I kept having flashbacks to dumb-but-lovable action TV series like Remington Steele. The plotting in this romantic suspense novel is on about the same goofball level as those shows, but unfortunately without eye candy on the order of Pierce Brosnan and worse, without the wit and knowing self-parody that…

Out of the Shadows

Kay Hooper concludes her psychic suspense trilogy with a bang. This final installment features the one character who’s appeared in both previous titles – FBI agent Noah Bishop. Noah, of course, gets his man, but this time he gets his lady, too. Miranda Knight serves as sheriff in a small Tennessee town. When a string…

Wild Enough For Willa

I’ve encountered many characters in my time. Some I liked, some I didn’t care about, a few I loved. Not since the time I read Harold Robbins have I came across a character I disliked as immediately and thoroughly as Luke McKade, the hero of Wild Enough For Willa. When we meet Luke he’s having…

Kiss and Kill

A lot of romantic suspense being currently written suffers from one of two problems. Some have too much suspense/not enough romance or vice versa. Others have a mish-mash of the two, little character development, and nothing to engage the reader. Happily, Kiss and Kill manages to avoid all these pitfalls. Anne Atwood has spent the…

Hiding in the Shadows

I can’t believe I waited this long to read something by Kay Hooper! This is the best suspense story I’ve read lately, with a good psychological twist at the end that’s as surprising as the one in the movie The Sixth Sense. It may make some readers unhappy, though. Dinah Leighton is an investigative journalist…

When Night Falls

Don’t get too attached to any of the secondary characters in When Night Falls. I made the mistake of having warm feelings toward some of the secondary characters and when one was horribly killed by Jeb Bassert, the villain of the piece, I felt downright betrayed. The body count in When Night Falls is pretty…

Butterfly

A lot of romance heroines are introduced when they are at a low point in their lives. The reader then gets to follow them as they bounce back from that point. China Brown, the heroine of Sharon Sala’s latest, is so downtrodden that she’s never able to recover as a character. And the book suffers…

Stealing Shadows

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – a female psychic works with skeptical but desperate police to catch a serial killer, who may be targeting the psychic herself. Meanwhile, the psychic and one of the law enforcement guys fall in love. Yeah, I thought it sounded like any number of other books, too…

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