Romantic Suspense
C
Virginia Kantra is a favorite of many series romance readers, and I was curious to try her first single title novel. Though Close-Up starts off with a promising plot, pacing more suited to a shorter format, together with an imbalance between the suspense and romance plots, make it a rather average r ...
Regretfully, this one gets off to a bad start. And, undeniably, it features one of the most atrociously sappy epilogues I've had the displeasure to come across since MJP's The Spiral Path. Still, somewhere in here there's a decent book you just might find worth the pain you have to endure to find ...
Suzanne Brockmann gets Max Bhagat and Gina Vitagliano together in Breaking Point, and ties up some loose ends with Molly and Jones. Jules Cassidy is in the story too, still pining from his break-up with Robin from Hot Target. On the whole I enjoyed the book, but a few pin-pricks kept it from being a ...
B-
Karyn Langhorne's Street Level is an intriguing and atypical romantic suspense novel with unusual characters and a distinct point of view. While far from perfect, I found it to be a most interesting read.
Thea Morris lives and works with her best friend Chandra in the District of Columbia. Th ...
One knock against Chick Lit is that the heroines, generally speaking, are not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier. They know their Prada from their Kate Spade, have explored every dead-end job publishing has to offer, and can identify any brand of designer vodka just by sniffing the bottle cap, bu ...
D
Maybe the two F-16s that roared so low over my home in the nation's capitol recently that a glass jar was knocked off a shelf have something to do with it, but I find myself having less and less tolerance for authors using major terrorist incidents as the plotline in cheesy tales of romantic suspens ...
Out of Control is one aptly named book, careening wildly between rampant passionate encounters and unpredictable villainous pursuits, rarely allowing the reader a rest from the intense action. Shannon McKenna writes a forceful yet highly provocative suspense novel like no other. With each of her boo ...
Vanessa Beacon has lived with Manuel Rodriguez for five years, ever since the birth of their son Dominick, but they have never married. Manuel has grown increasingly controlling and abusive, and Vanessa wants out. She knows he will never let her go – he has made that quite clear – so she makes p ...
B+
One of my favorite of Linda Howard's books is Son of the Morning, a gripping Romantic Suspense novel with a heroine time-traveling to medieval Scotland. So I eagerly looked forward to Killing Time, which I thought was another RS novel with a time-traveling twist. Howard delivers a good mystery and ...
Anne Stuart is known for her dark heroes and Black Ice features one who is darker than usual. Bastien Toussaint has lived under many identities as he works undercover for the mysterious Committee. He is used to living alone and allows himself feelings for no one. However, on his latest assignment, h ...