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Title: Picture Me Dead by Heather Graham ISBN: 0-7783-2010-3 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.38 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: strong police procedural romance
Comment: In Miami, Florida, talented artist Ashley Montague attends the police academy while living with her uncle and his girl friend on top of a bar-restaurant he owns near a marina. Homicide Detective Jake Dilessio has just relocated his houseboat to that same marina. When the two first meet, neither likes the other.
Ashley draws the scene of a terrible accident she has seen. Later she learns the victim is a high school friend Stuart Frecias whose body is filled with illegal drugs as he resides in a coma. Ashley believes he would never do drugs insisting something sinister happened while Stuart was undercover working on a story for some rag.
Meanwhile Jake's worst nightmare returns when a woman is found mutilated in the Everglades with the same MO as that of a serial killer five years ago. As he makes no progress, he agrees to look into Stuart's situation. Wondering if Ashley's theory is correct, Jake sees a potential link between his homicide case and that of Stuart even while he and Ashley fall in love and she accepts a job as a forensic artist.
Fans of Heather Graham recognize that her novels always contain gripping suspense and the right portion of love. PICTURE ME DEAD is a strong police procedural romance that grips readers until the final twist. The engaging lead couple is typical of the genre as they initially detest each other, but ultimately love one another. The story line is filled with intrigue, but contains too many turns losing some credibility yet Ms. Graham is so good her audience will finish the novel in one sitting.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 4
Summary: Fun Book!
Comment: It's obvious Heather Graham has a history in writing romance. "Picture Me Dead" pits jaded, cynical homicide investigator Jake Dilessio against the young, persistent rookie Ashley Montague, who reminds Jake of his former partner, who died during an investigation. Jake and Ashley are thrown together in trying to solve what begins as two separate mysteries but soon merges into one. The story moves fast, but the part I enjoyed best was the contradicting tension versus attracion between Ashley and Jake. Graham portrays this in a fun way, and I really enjoyed this book. I look forward to reading more of her work.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pretty Good for Graham
Comment: Recently, I have been disappointed with Heather Graham's books. They read like a first draft, as if she didn't take the time to refine the story and inject a little collagen into the thin spots. A few years ago, I read "Slow Burn" and "For All Of Her Life", and I became hooked, but I read through pages and pages of her contemporary novels looking for something that even hinted at the caliber of writing she is capable of. "Picture Me Dead" was a ghost of that past.
I have long given up my hard-earned dollars to buy one of her books, but I still look her up in the library, as I did with "Picture Me Dead", in the hope that she will tantalize the way she once did.
She's always offered a muddled mystery in the midst of a decent romance. There are always too many players on the field, and every one is running around with suspicion haning over their heads, because she is trying too hard to create suspense and keep the reader from guessing the outcome of the story until the end. But instead, her technique creates confusion about her characters and their roles. I have trouble matching the name to the person, because there are too many characters.
"Picture Me Dead" still had these flaws, but it is still a good read. The story that unfolds surrounding hot Miami's dangerous underbelly of drugs and crime is far-fetched with the angle of a religious cult thrown into the mix, but the main characters of Ashley Montague, the young almost-cop, and Jake Dilessio, the obsessed veteran homicide detective more than make up for the scheme Graham tries to sell.
If Graham could dress up the rest of her characters in the ways she did with Ashley and Jake, she could come into her own. I loved the first initial "oops" meeting between Ashley and Jake, before Ashley realizes who Jake is, and the nervous tension Ashley experiences concerning Jake. I liked these characters, but as for the others, they lacked the vibrancy that Jake and Ashley possessed. Ashley and Jake are the sole reason I gave the book 4 stars.
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Title: Haunted by Heather Graham ISBN: 1551667509 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Drop Dead Gorgeous by Heather Graham ISBN: 0451408462 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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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: The Morning After by Lisa Jackson ISBN: 0821772953 Publisher: Zebra Books (Mass Market) Pub. Date: 24 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dying to Have Her by Heather Graham ISBN: 0451409884 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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