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Title: Beachcomber by Karen Robards ISBN: 0-7434-5348-4 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Slizzling Romantic Suspense
Comment: Ms. Robards is at the top of her game with her latest novel packed with a touch of humor, plenty of steamy romance, and eerie suspense. Philadelphia attorney Christy Petrino is hoping to get some semblance of normality back into her life after she learns that her former fiancé Michael, head of her law firm, is using his business as a front to lauder mob money. With a promise to mobster Uncle Vince to make a delivery of a briefcase at Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, Christy hopes to free herself and her mother and sisters from the mob's undue influence.
Poor Christy soon realizes that not only is the mob after her, but a serial killer wants her dead after she sees his latest victim along the beach shortly before the killer slits the victim's throat. With the help of buff beach neighbor Luke Rand (who is secretly an FBI agent), Christy manages to escape the deadly clutches of the killer in several pulse-pounding episodes. Feeling guilty for using Christy as bait to snare Michael, Luke tries to avoid his attraction to her while attempting to get along with his fellow agent and polar opposite, nerdy Gary.
Christy's assertion that someone is watching her is never ending as she feels that she can't even trust the local sheriff to protect her. Feeling safe only in Luke's arms, the two embark on a sizzling affair that threatens to go bust when she discovers his true identity. Fast-paced thrills and chills with sensual romance will keep readers glued to the pages, despite Luke's endless assertions that he can't understand why other bikini clad women don't attract him as Christy does.
Rating: 4
Summary: romantic suspense in North Carolina's Outer Banks
Comment: Karen Robards newest romantic suspense novel is set in North Carolina's Outer Banks. Christy Petrino is from a family connected to the mob looking to leave that life far behind. She goes to law school with plans to work in a legitimate law firm. She gets a job with a childhood friend's firm, a firm she thought was legitimate. She thought wrong. To untangle herself from the firm and her friend (now fiancée), she must deliver a briefcase to a motel on Oracoke Island. Terror awaits her in the Outer Banks. There is a serial killer loose stalking victims resembling Christy. Enter FBI agent Luke Rand. He has Christy surveillance because of her connection to the DePalma crime family.
As with most novels of this genre, you have to suspend belief to enjoy the book. Most the plot is pretty farfetched. The things that make it enjoyable are the feisty primary characters and their chemistry. The action is fairly fast-paced so the story moves along.
Rating: 1
Summary: Gimme a break!
Comment: Robards needs to stick with writing strictly romance or go to some sort of school to learn to write a murder mystery. Lesson 1: You cannot take a character who could not possibly have commited a murder (alibi FIRMLY established) and morph that character into the murderer at the end just for the sake of keeping your readers guessing! READ YOUR OWN WRITING!! This is not the only lesson Robards needs to learn (DID ANYONE EDIT THIS BOOK?!!!) but it would be a great start.
Don't waste your time reading this book unless you want to see how NOT to write a murder mystery.
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Title: Cry No More by Linda Howard ISBN: 0345453417 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Hello, Darkness by Sandra Brown ISBN: 0743245520 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Blindside: An FBI Thriller by Catherine Coulter ISBN: 0399150560 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 28 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Fatal Tide by Iris Johansen ISBN: 055380247X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Ain't She Sweet? by Susan Elizabeth Phillips ISBN: 0066211247 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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