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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780446613057
ISBN number: 0446613053
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 480
Printing Date: 2003-08
Publishing house: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date: August 25, 2003
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When Dr. Rennie Newton's jury duty on a case involving a contract killerends in an acquittal for Ricky Lozada, her carefully composed and very privatelife begins to unravel. First, someone breaks into her house to leave her ananonymous dozen blue roses. Then her colleague and one-time rival for the chiefof surgery job is murdered in the parking lot of her hospital, which makes her aprime suspect, especially when the police learn that she's killed a man oncebefore. None of that stops Detective Wick Threadgill from falling in love withher; unlike his partner, he's sure that Lozada, not Rennie, is behind Howell'smurder. And it soon becomes clear that the killer is so obsessed with Renniethat he'll do anything to have her--including killing again. Brown, master ofthe romantic mystery, goes into darker territory here, but she handles it withher usual deftness and turns in a well-paced if not particularly heart-stoppingthriller with the requisite happy ending for Rennie and Wick. --JaneAdams
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When Dr. Rennie Newton's jury duty on a case involving a contract killer ends in an acquittal for Ricky Lozada, her carefully composed and very private life begins to unravel. First, someone breaks into her house to leave her an anonymous dozen blue roses. Then her colleague and one-time rival for the chief of surgery job is murdered in the parking lot of her hospital, which makes her a prime suspect, especially when the police learn that she's killed a man once before. None of that stops Detective Wick Threadgill from falling in love with her; unlike his partner, he's sure that Lozada, not Rennie, is behind Howell's murder. And it soon becomes clear that the killer is so obsessed with Rennie that he'll do anything to have her--including killing again. Brown, master of the romantic mystery, goes into darker territory here, but she handles it with her usual deftness and turns in a well-paced if not particularly heart-stopping thriller with the requisite happy ending for Rennie and Wick. --Jane Adams
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Kept me entertained 4 stars
A cop killer on the loose who does anything he wants and the police can never nail him. A former whorish teenage who is now the mother of virtue. An ex-cop who obsesses with her even after learning her extremely lurid past. A long and silly story that with some intelligent editing could have been terrific and much more credible.
I don't understand how a famous writer could come up with such a contrived and flimsy plot. But even so, this spicy romance story disguised as a cop novel kept me entertained all the way, even though I could never set aside my disbelief to get really engrossed. I am definitely going to buy more of her books hoping that this was not one of her best.
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My favorite was 24 hours. But this was alright it kept my attention and was able to enjoy the story line. Some parts are you see what is coming, but was able to enjoy the ending.
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Contract killer Ricky Lozada, who'd been on trial for murder, develops a fixation on Rennie Newton, the medical doctor who served as jury forewoman and got him off. He starts stalking her. Enter Wick Threadgill, the troubled, brooding, mentally unstable police officer (are there any other kind?), who hopes to protect her -- and score with her, and not necessarily in that order. The relationship between the cracked-up cop and the troubled trauma surgeon, never too realistic to start off with, just gets stupider and stupider as the book goes on. SPOILER ALERT. When you get to "the evil man just killed my beloved horses so why don't I make love for the very first time in twenty years," you've touched bottom in dumb-ness. I just hope my I.Q. can eventually recover from having read the book.
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When a colleague is killed, Dr. Rennie Newton is shocked to find out it was a deliberate precision killing. Gossip starts to fly when it is disclosed that she and the deceased doctor were in line for the same job and fought often. Rennie's situation gets a lot worse when she finds out the man suspected of the recent death is none other than Ricky Lozada. She recently served on the jury at his trial.
Wick Threadgill is on leave from the Fort Worth police force. He has been accused of losing perspective after the death of his brother Joe. It is assumed that Ricky also committed this murder. His partner Oren has asked him to come and discretely watch Rennie because Oren is convinced she is the key to finding Ricky.
Wick determines early on that Rennie is innocent. As he gets closer to her, they find themselves unable to deny the attraction between them. When Wick realizes that Ricky has an attachment to Rennie, he will do anything to protect her.
This is one of my favorite books by SB. Ricky is one of the creepiest killers I have ever read. He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. I also liked Rennie and Wick. They had chemistry overload!
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More whining from the Liberal Chattering Class. I get it! Bush bad! Capitalism bad! Channey, EVIL! For a few chapters I had to fast forward thru to avoid throwing this heavy on accusation, light on analytic thought, CD in the trash. A perfect fit for those that think that there is always a wealthy person somewhere in the country planning to steal from the poor, honest, workingman.
Great read for Trotskyites, Limousine Liberals, the Black Helicopter crowd, and most of today's Democrat Party.
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