Romantic Suspense

D
Head On

By Colleen Thompson
Head On is a romantic suspense novel with the emphasis on suspense. When former town pariah Mark Jessup comes back to town to try and make peace with his dying father, murder happens and old secrets are not secret any more. During his senior year in high school, Mark Jessup was speeding in hi ...

A-
High Noon

By Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts is one of those writers who rarely, if ever, does wrong. Most of what she writes, in my opinion, is worth picking up. I don’t know how she does it, but her new contemporary romantic suspense High Noon is another great book. Lieutenant Phoebe McNamara is a former FBI ...

C
Code Name: Bikini

By Christina Skye
Take a sort of bionic Navy SEAL, add in a heroine tinged by tragedy, involve our two leads in a murky spy plot, include a heavy dose of cameo appearances from characters readers supposedly know and love from previous books, and the result is one pip of an average book. Christina Skye’s Code N ...

B-
On Target

By Catherine Mann
We’ve all had it happen. You’re reading a book, really into it, and something happens that just pulls you out of the moment entirely. That perfectly describes my experience with On Target. Two-thirds of the book were compelling and fast-paced, yet, once I got distracted, I began to notice li ...

B
Into the Dark

By Cindy Gerard
Never having read any of the other books Gerard's Bodyguards series, I had no idea what to expect. I’m happy to say that this was a fast paced and mostly enjoyable read, with an excellent heroine, a hard-bodied hero and a nice set of secondary characters that I want to see again. The back story ...

B-
Dead Shot

By Annie Solomon
The heroine from Dead Shot is among the most atypical I've ever read. Readers will either love her and embrace the stereotype break, or be put out of their comfort zone. As for the rest of the book, the story is interesting, thought though the ending leaves a bit to be desired. ...

B+
The Prada Paradox

By Julie Kenner
Julie Kenner's previous two books in the Play. Survive. Win trilogy were non-stop action rides through New York City's shopping district on a deadly scavenger hunt. I wondered how the author would wrap up this series without repeating herself, but never doubt a good writer. In a case of "art imitati ...

B
Tough Enough

By Michele Albert
Tough Enough is the latest in Michele Albert’s series about the Avalon organization – a group of private operatives who specialize in finding lost and stolen art and artifacts. This series features a love story in each book, and a continuing story arc that involves the search for an elusive ar ...

B+
Take Me Tonight

By Roxanne St. Claire
Sometimes silly, sometimes serious, Take Me Tonight is a fun book that is happily more hit than miss.  Sage Valentine is an investigative reporter living in Boston. Her roommate Keisha was found dead, supposedly from suicide, but Sage doesn’t believe it, suspecting instead that her death was c ...

C
Blood Ties

By Judith E. French
Well, when you come across a book that’s a flat C, you know it. There’s nothing wrong with the book that would drop it down into D or F territory, but, on the other hand, there’s nothing that pulls it out of the mind-numbing crowd either. Judith E. French’s Blood Ties is a perfect example ...