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Wednesday’s Child (HQN 2005) by Gayle Wilson (384 pgs) is a romantic suspense novel. This TBR Challenge review was submitted by fellow reader Janet Webb aka @JanetNorCal.
This month’s TBR category is categories and as it happened, I spent most of the weekend organizing my book shelves. My keeper and TBR books are shelved together: I put little […]
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Continue Reading“Hard to Hold,” by Stephanie Tyler (Dell 2009) is a romantic suspense novel, the first in a trilogy featuring Navy SEAL’s. The first story in this series features Lieutenant Junior Grade Jake Hansen. I think this quote lifted from the prologue gives you a hint of what these stories are all about:
“We want to be in a situation under maximum pressure, […]
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Continue ReadingI thought a post about Victoria Holt would be fun especially since the publisher has been reissuing some of them with really nice covers. And Yes. I am reading some new stuff. Mystery, of course. Romance –bah. Didn’t last long for me.
Here’s my brief history with Victoria Holt. I started reading her when I was a senior in high school (back […]
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Continue ReadingShadow Lover (1999) by Anne Stuart is a romantic suspense novel published by Onyx. It’s a standalone.
Anne Stuart is probably best known for her dark heroes. Heroes who enjoy skirting very close to or stepping over the line. I’d say the hero in “Shadow Lover” is one of the rare ones who doesn’t cross it completely.
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Continue ReadingNo Surrender (2009) by Shannon Stacey is apart of a series that is published by Samhain, LTD. The Devlin Group books are one of my favorite series because the stories are full of action with just the right amount of romance.
The Devlin Group represents a group of operatives who work locally as well as globally. They go after […]
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Continue ReadingToday’s post was inspired by a forum discussion at AAR where readers are yet still defining what constitutes a romance but that’s not what I’m going to expound on here today.
The discussion started around a romantic suspense novel, FADE TO BLACK by Leslie Parish where one reader thought the violence was too graphic and the story not romantic […]
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Continue ReadingIf you don’t like reviews of half-finished books (in this case up to chapter 7) then don’t read any further. Moving on. Picking a category book for this month’s challenge gave me a couple of false starts, the first one being Ms. Lee’s A Soldier’s Homecoming(2008) (A Return to Conard County).
The book started off great and the […]
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Continue ReadingThere are so few well written, no — smartly written romantic suspense novels today. I’d be hard pressed to list you ten. I don’t mean to be dismissive but romantic suspense is my least favorite genre because they are almost always unoriginal with characters who do not speak or act to their stated potentials.
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Continue ReadingKaren Rose latest book “Scream For Me” is well written and suspenseful. It is a continuation of the unraveling of the Vartanian’s family secrets. In the small town of Dutton, Georgia, another killer is on the loose killing young women whose deaths are tied to the past. Thirteen years ago Alicia Tremaine was […]
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Continue ReadingI’ve discovered a new author to add to my “authors to watch out for” list and her name is Debra Webb. Suspense must be her first, middle and last name because Nameless, her Feb 2008 release by St. Martin’s Paperbacks, kept me on the edge of my seat.
Former FBI agent, Ryan McBride is bitter at having […]
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Continue ReadingRITA award winning author, Karen Rose next book, Scream for Me, makes her hardcover debut, publisher suggested price: $16.99, to be released May 13. I really enjoyed Ms. Rose last book, Die For Me, where art imitates life — literally. Here is the back blurb for Scream For Me:
For her exciting debut in hardcover, New […]
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Continue ReadingInto the Mist by Maya Banks, copyright Feb 2008, published by Samhain LTD. I love action stories that are smartly written no matter the label. Meaning that there’s a good story with solidly written characters that don’t come across as being stupid with a story arc that disallows the plot to be bogged down with gratuitous sex […]
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Continue ReadingDeadly Temptation by Justine Davis is a romantic suspense novel that is an early ebook release from eHarlequin.com. Deadly Temptation opens with Liana Kiley starting her first day at work for the renowned Redstone Empire. The owner of the company is gazillionaire, Josh Redstone, who goes by “Josh” and not “Mr. Redstone.” The motto at the Redstone […]
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Continue ReadingDie for Me by Karen Rose is her 8th romantic suspense novel set primarily in Philadelphia. Are you looking for edge of your seat romantic suspense? Then look no further than Karen Rose latest novel. I read it in one sitting. Here is the book description below:
COME TO ME
The first victim is found in a snow-covered Philadelphia field. Detective Vito Ciccotelli enlists […]
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Continue ReadingPlay Dirty by Sandra Brown is available in hardcover, large print hardcover, audio CD, tape, eAudio and ebook from Simon and Schuster. There’s a trailer for the book here and an excerpt here for you to read and enjoy if scroll past down the review that is spoilerish. Release date: August 14, 2007.
Play Dirty by Sandra Brown […]
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