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I generally enjoy Mary Burton’s books and this was no exception. Someone is killing women with a tire iron, and some of the victims are tied to lawyer Rachel Wainwright’s work to prove a jailed man innocent. Deke Morgan is the detective assigned to the case, and it was his father who put the man in jail 30 years before. Deke and Rachel start out
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I enjoyed this simply because it’s Nora Roberts and it involves a heist or two. It’s a book that doesn’t age well. The main character, Adrianne, grows up the child of a Middle-Eastern king and his American actress wife in a fictional, very religiously-strict Middle Eastern country. The attitudes put forward about Islam are very outdated and over-the-top. But Adrianne is an interesting character. She
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This large collection of romantic suspense short stories was a little hit or miss. Some of the authors I was familiar with, and some I would add to my TBR. But I think that calling some of these stories romantic suspense was a stretch. I think it’s hard to build up the “suspense” part of the romantic suspense in the length of a short story.
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Mean Streak is about Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician from Atlanta who was written to be just a little too perfect. She’s a great doctor with a well-known, successful practice, married to a man who works in finance, who gives a lot to charity, and loves running. It’s running that takes her to the mountains of North Carolina, where she plans to run a half
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