Another complex, compelling romantic suspense novel from a queen of the genre.
Two childhood survivors of a cult massacre investigate the death of another survivor and discover a trail that may finally lead them to the group's missing psychopathic leader.
When her friend and client Hannah Brewster, a reclusive artist, dies under suspicious circumstances, Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy hires local private investigation firm Cutler, Sutter & Salinas to look into it. When Virginia was 9, Anson Salinas saved her from a burning barn after Quinton Zane, the leader of a cult compound where she was being raised, set it on fire and disappeared. Hannah was also part of the cult—a friend of Virginia’s mother, who died in the fire—as were three boys Anson ultimately fostered. Two of them, Cabot Sutter and Max Cutler, went into the PI business with Anson, so they’re the perfect firm to help her now. Hannah left behind paintings—“scenes from her worst nightmare”—which hint that Zane is still alive, despite reports to the contrary, and include some secret message Virginia can’t figure out. Soon after Cabot and Virginia begin looking into the artist’s death, a woman with no discernible link to Hannah, Virginia, or the cult winds up dead in the gallery. Following the clues leads to a local tech company and some unexpected suspects, though not to Zane. However, another close look at the paintings uncovers a trail to a lost fortune for which someone is clearly willing to kill. As Virginia and Cabot face danger and confront their shared past and its long psychological shadow, their immediate attraction grows stronger and deeper and offers them the hope of love despite their emotional wounds. Krentz continues her recent, loosely linked series (When All the Girls Have Gone, 2016) with another fascinating story and a beguiling tease regarding Book 3.
Another complex, compelling romantic suspense novel from a queen of the genre.Pub Date: Jan. 2, 2018
ISBN: 978-0-399-58527-2
Page Count: 336
Publisher: Berkley
Review Posted Online: Oct. 16, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 2017
Pevear's informative introduction and numerous helpful explanatory notes help make this the essential Anna Karenina.
The husband-and-wife team who have given us refreshing English versions of Dostoevsky, Gogol, and Chekhov now present their lucid translation of Tolstoy's panoramic tale of adultery and society: a masterwork that may well be the greatest realistic novel ever written. It's a beautifully structured fiction, which contrasts the aristocratic world of two prominent families with the ideal utopian one dreamed by earnest Konstantin Levin (a virtual self-portrait). The characters of the enchanting Anna (a descendant of Flaubert's Emma Bovary and Fontane's Effi Briest, and forerunner of countless later literary heroines), the lover (Vronsky) who proves worthy of her indiscretion, her bloodless husband Karenin and ingenuous epicurean brother Stiva, among many others, are quite literally unforgettable. Perhaps the greatest virtue of this splendid translation is the skill with which it distinguishes the accents of Anna's romantic egoism from the spare narrative clarity with which a vast spectrum of Russian life is vividly portrayed.
Pevear's informative introduction and numerous helpful explanatory notes help make this the essential Anna Karenina.Pub Date: Feb. 1, 2001
ISBN: 0-670-89478-8
Page Count: 864
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2001
PERSPECTIVES
Entertaining and unpredictable; Reid makes a compelling argument for happiness in every life.
Reid’s latest (After I Do, 2014, etc.) explores two parallel universes in which a young woman hopes to find her soul mate and change her life for the better.
After ending an affair with a married man, Hannah Martin is reunited with her high school sweetheart, Ethan, at a bar in Los Angeles. Should she go home with her friends and catch up with him later, or should they stay out and have another drink? It doesn’t seem like either decision would have earth-shattering consequences, but Reid has a knack for finding skeletons in unexpected closets. Two vastly different scenarios play out in alternating chapters: in one, Hannah and Ethan reconnect as if no time has passed; in the other, Hannah lands in the hospital alone after a freak accident that marks the first of many surprising plot twists. Hannah’s best friend, Gabby, believes in soul mates, and though Hannah has trouble making decisions—even when picking a snack from a vending machine—she and Gabby discover how their belief systems can alter their world as much as their choices. “Believing in fate is like living on cruise control,” Hannah says. What follows is a thoughtful analysis of free will versus fate in which Hannah finds that disasters can bring unexpected blessings, blessings can bring unexpected disasters, and that most people are willing to bring Hannah her favorite cinnamon rolls. “Because even when it looks like she’s made a terrible mistake,” Hannah’s mother observes, “things will always work out for Hannah.” The larger question becomes whether Hannah’s choices will ultimately affect her happiness—and it’s one that’s answered on a hopeful note as Hannah tries to do the right thing in every situation she faces.
Entertaining and unpredictable; Reid makes a compelling argument for happiness in every life.Pub Date: July 7, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4767-7688-0
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Washington Square/Pocket
Review Posted Online: April 14, 2015
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 2015
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