Last Summer is a competently written, juicy page turner with a big problem – its mystery is non-mysterious. Ella Skye is a gorgeous, Barbara Walters-style lifestyle journalist who jet-sets with the rich and famous. When she meets Damien Russell, they fall quickly in love, marry and it seems like a fairytale. But their joy quickly…
Her Deadly Secrets is the second in Laura Griffin’s Wolfe Security series which débuted last year with Desperate Girls. Unlike the author’s long-running Tracers series, in which the stories revolve around the workings of a high-tech crime lab, and thus have a strong focus on forensics, the Wolfe Security novels feature the operatives of an…
*sigh*. This is the second romance novel I’ve read in the past month that mentions ‘hot monkey sex.’ NO. The expression conjures a decidedly unsexy visual. As per Rom Rule #14 in my personal reviewer’s handbook, a romance that describes high-intensity sexual intercourse as ‘hot monkey sex’ will automatically receive a reduction of one letter…
I had high hopes for this anthology when I saw two of the names attached to it (Dal Maclean and Josh Lanyon), and Footsteps in the Dark more than met my expectations, although in the end, all but one of my favorite stories were penned by new-to-me authors (yay!). None of the eight stories are…
Prince of Killers is the first in a new trilogy of romantic suspense novels from Layla Reyne. Set in and around San Francisco, and focuses on a family that made its name and fortune from organised crime but which, owing to a tragic incident a few years earlier, is changing direction and turning its hand…
Old Skool is still alive and well in Steel Resolve, a western romance where Fatal Attraction meets MacLeod’s Daughters to negligible results. This is a narrative with some women problems. And PoV problems. And plotting problems… Cowboy carpenter-for-hire Chase Steele has one problem, namely Fiona Barkley, who has been stalking him since their drunken one-night-stand. …
Narrated by Roger Wayne Hidden is the first book in the new Deep Ops series of romantic suspense novels by Rebecca Zanetti, an author whose work I’ve not yet read or listened to. The series features the somewhat rag-taggle group of hand-picked operatives who make up the newly created Requisition Force (and yes, we do…
Oscar nominated actress Meg Tilly is no stranger when it comes to the literary arts – Cliff’s Edge is her eighth book, and the second in her Pacific Northwest-set Solace Island series. So far she’s made a good home for herself in the romantic suspense genre, writing tense thrillers with a solid human core and…
When I picked up Loreth Anne White’s The Dark Bones for review, I wasn’t aware that it was linked to one of her earlier books, A Dark Lure, in which a young woman who was abducted and repeatedly assaulted is making a new life for herself in rural Canada only to have to face the…
Orientation is the first book in a new series of mysteries by Gregory Ashe, and in it, he introduces us to North McKinney and Kingsley Shaw Wilder Aldrich, who own and run a detective agency in St. Louis. They’ve been friends – best friends – since college even though they couldn’t be more different. North…
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