Spontaneous Combustion is a decent, if unexceptional start to the Code Red continuity series. When a warehouse fire breaks out in Courage Bay, California, firefighter Shannon O’Shea and her crew race to the scene. Inside the building, she finds a dog trapped beneath a fallen beam. She rescues it, only to find herself trapped behind…
Like other novels in Silhouette’s new Bombshell line, A Perfect Cover is not a romance. It’s a suspense novel starring a smart and resourceful female heroine, working undercover to solve a series of ugly murders. It’s pretty darn good. The book opens with a couple of episodes out of the life of our first-person-narrator, Lacie…
I listened to the unabridged version of Bait over a nice long drive to Burgess Falls in Tennessee. The drive was long, but this book was longer and even after a 300+ mile trip, it still took a couple of short trips to listen to it all. This is the most descriptive book I have…
Have you heard the one about the modern day couple haunted by their doomed love in an earlier life? Well, Heather Graham thinks you’re ready to hear it again – mixed in with a some serial killer stuff, of course, just to make sure all those “romantic suspense” bases are covered. Frankly, there’s absolutely nothing…
Fans of romantic suspense have enjoyed Rebecca York’s 43 Light Street Harlequin Intrigue series for a number of years. Since I, too, am a fan, I picked up her latest thriller on a whim. Unfortunately, Undercover Encounter, the kickoff to Harlequin Intrigue’s New Orleans Confidential continuity mini-series, is not nearly as engaging as York’s other…
As the title indicates, Tempting the Highlander is the latest installment in Janet Chapman’s series about a group of time-traveling Scotsmen and their offspring. This is the first book in the series that I’ve tried, and while it is a warm, sweet story, I suspect it will work better for readers who’ve been following these…
Sometimes the heroines of Chick Lit novels come across as only a bit more mature than your average high school freshman. Their extreme insecurity, their reluctance to take any sort of emotional lead in a relationship, their devotion to winning “The One Ring” – as the heroine of Call Waiting calls an engagement ring –…
I admit it: I grew up in small town Indiana. And though I worried the author would take the cliched route and portray Sweetheart, Indiana as a peaceful, quaint heaven-on-earth, she surprised me. Simmons’ portrayal of this small town was quite realistic and well done. Unfortunately, however, there are other problems with the book that…
Had my sister not recommended Mr. Family to me, I probably wouldn’t have picked it up. The cover is ultra precious, and the title is just plain bad. But I trust my sister and I’ve read Margot Early before so I figured, “What the heck.” I really wasn’t expecting a story as touching as this…
I am not sure if The Marriage Wish is a straight reprint or a rewrite of a book first published in 1998. Either way, I don’t understand why they brought it back. Although a reader can respect the subject matter and the emotions of the story, the book is preachy, the writing style amateurish, and…
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