Another baffling case for Superintendent Mike Yeadings and his Thames Valley team (Fast Mischief, 1996, etc.)—Detective Sergeants Beaumont and newly promoted Rosemary Zyczynski, augmented this time by out-of-district, heartily disliked Inspector Jenner. A woman's corpse has been found on the riverbank in Mardham village—40ish, strangled, and unknown to any of the villagers closely questioned by Yeadings's officers. Among these are pretty music student Gayle Dawson, who'd been frightened by a stalker the previous night on her way home from the railroad station; her sharp-eyed landlady Olive George; elderly May Snelling and her hulking, dim-witted son Harry. Nearby are suave lawyer Donald Field, his rich, society- minded wife Phyllida, and their teenage twins—clownish Colin and quiet Rachel. Their next-door neighbors are physician Stanley Goodwin, a man tortured by ill health and by the affair his wife Meredith is blatantly conducting with Donald Field. Meredith's bachelor brother Malcolm Barrow lives with them. The interviews with all of those, and many others, are unproductive at first, but the corpse is finally identified as Sheena Chadwick, a London prostitute whose estranged husband's van has been seen in the vicinity. As it develops, Sheena's murder is but the first in a series that will tax Yeadings's instincts and expertise to the max. A tightly constructed village procedural, well up to the author's standards for byzantine plotting, solidly realized characters, and a steady flow of suspenseful incident. A treat for fans of the genre; the heavily detailed, sometimes tedious police workings may be a minus for others.
Pub Date: Feb. 7, 1997
ISBN: 0-312-15079-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Dunne/St. Martin's
Review Posted Online: June 24, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1997
Another romance winner for Shalvis.
After helping her recover from a devastating accident, physical therapist AJ Colten rejected Darcy Stone’s romantic overture; now he needs her help acquiring grants for his program, placing both their hearts in danger.
Dedicated wanderer and travel journalist Darcy is sidelined—and lucky to be alive—after icy roads and an aggressive driver forced her car into a tree. Now, nearly a year after the accident, she’s relatively healthy and mobile but not hale enough to return to her globe-trotting career. While disappointed, she’s grateful to be alive and honest enough to admit that without AJ’s help, she’d still be in a wheelchair. Weighing her next steps, Darcy is doing a couple of part-time jobs to help pay the bills and fund her passion project of adopting former service dogs and pairing them with emotionally vulnerable patients, but it's nowhere near the income she made as a journalist. When AJ has the opportunity to meet a potential donor for his pro bono therapy work, he arranges to have a client travel with him to Boise, but the man backs out at the last second. Darcy reluctantly agrees to step in, since her relationship with AJ is tricky. First, he's her brother's best friend; second, she has a mad attraction to him; third, she works for him at his clinic; and fourth, she threw herself at him during her rehabilitation and he rejected her, pushing all of her inadequacy buttons. But she also feels grateful and obligated to him and knows this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance. AJ isn't thrilled that Darcy is his best hope for funding since he has a ton of reasons to keep her at arm's length, reasons that become less compelling as they endure a snowbound weekend and a pretend love affair. Shalvis' newest Animal Magnetism title leverages emotional conflict and sexual tension into a satisfying romance, while physically and emotionally wounded Darcy learns lessons of love and acceptance that readers will cheer for.
Another romance winner for Shalvis.Pub Date: April 7, 2015
ISBN: 978-0-425-27018-9
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Berkley
Review Posted Online: Feb. 4, 2015
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2015
With vignettes from Nazi-occupied Denmark and a spotlight on the noble actions of an engaged Danish citizenry that...
Antiques treasure hunter Tess Delaney lives a high-octane existence and is on the cusp of the success she’s fought for, so now may not be the best time to question everything; but as events pile up and secrets are uncovered, forcing her to re-evaluate, she may find that a perfect life she never dreamed of is within her reach.
On the very day Tess expects a huge promotion in her highly prestigious antiques brokerage firm, banker Dominic Rossi turns up in her San Francisco office to inform her that she has a grandfather and a half sister she never knew about; that her grandfather is in a coma; and that she’s named in his will as half owner of an orchard that’s about to go under. Raised by a single mother who traveled extensively and an unmarried grandmother who owned an antiques shop, Tess has always been attracted to the idea of family but has had limited exposure to the reality. She is drawn to the honorable Dominic, her welcoming sister Isabel and life in Archangel, Calif., and she quickly becomes entwined in discovering the truth about the family she never knew, bringing her talent and experience as a researcher, historian and treasure hunter to the many secrets buried in the sands of time. Underneath it all, a mysterious missing heirloom may bring them all financial and emotional salvation, and in the process of discovery, Tess will begin to understand the true power of love, community, family and honor. Wiggs’ latest is a lovely, poignant story of a woman who thinks she has it all until she discovers she truly does, and none of it is what she expected.
With vignettes from Nazi-occupied Denmark and a spotlight on the noble actions of an engaged Danish citizenry that reportedly managed to save 99 percent of its Jewish population, Wiggs tells a layered, powerful story of love, loss, hope and redemption.Pub Date: April 30, 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7783-1493-6
Page Count: 432
Publisher: Harlequin MIRA
Review Posted Online: March 10, 2013
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 2013
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