Closer than She Thinks

Southern suspense set in New Orleans has become almost a subgenre in itself, with everyone from relatively unknown Metsy Hingle to Nora Roberts adding to the mix. As far as familiarity goes, Meryl Sawyer falls somewhere between the two, but she deserves to become better known for offering an intriguing mix of mystery, engaging protagonists…

To Trust a Stranger

After several attempts on her life, a former beauty queen turned trophy wife is forced To Trust a Stranger. Unbeknownst to her, the man she’s been married to for eight years has mob connections and a history of mysteriously-disappeared wives. The attractive stranger she falls for has a personal stake in bringing her husband down….

No Way Out

I’ve been eagerly awaiting Andrea Kane’s second contemporary romantic suspense since I read Run For Your Life, her first contemporary story. While I’ve always enjoyed Kane’s historicals, I think she’s really found her niche in contemporaries. No Way Out wasn’t quite as edge-of-your-seat as Run For Your Life, but it’s still a good follow-up. Julia…

Unforgivable

The blurb on the back of the advance copy of Unforgivable puts Tina Wainscott’s venture into romantic suspense in the company of Lisa Gardner and Iris Johansen. As someone who finds both those authors engrossing and genuinely suspenseful, I found that comparison of this novel to their work far short of the mark. Katie Malloy…

Lone Rider

Lately, I have run into several books that were written in a style that I can only call distracting. When you have to read and re-read a sentence, paragraph, or even several pages to try and figure out what the author is trying to say, it breaks the flow of what should be a smooth…

Snowfall

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…

Night of the Blackbird

It wasn’t hard to picture Kelly’s Pub in Boston and the family that surrounds it, which is portrayed in the latest by Graham. Perhaps I’ve been watching too many old episodes of Ryan’s Hope on SoapNet, but the place and people fell into place pretty easily. What didn’t gel as well were the plot and…

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