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Detective Nate Darling has seen a lot of things over the years, but Tabitha March is in a class all by herself. A so–called "dream interpreter," Nate's pretty sure Tabitha has just found an inventive way to make money. That's why he's not too concerned when asked to investigate one of her client's increasingly disturbing dreams of murder.
But Tabitha's more than a little psychic and she insists that this client is a danger. When a young women is killed in the exact way Tabitha predicted, Nate has to decide if the surprisingly intriguing and undeniably attractive Tabitha is the number one suspect ––or the woman who's going to turn his well–ordered world on its ear.
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GREAT READ.......2007-05-09
I love the humor in Ms. Stillings' books. Highly recommend it.
I TIRED TO LIKE IT BUT....NO GO!........2007-04-16
I've never read this writer before but I picked it up in the grocery store because I read the back cover and thought it sounded interesting. I was very mistaken. I found the book long, drawn out and boring and to top it off I really dislike both the main leads.
Another Strong Story From "Newish" Author.......2007-03-20
The crowded field of paranormal-suspense-romantica creates a demanding reader and this author can handle the readers's concerns. Her characters
exist in a real world--where something as silly as a last name--can add stress to an already busy day. The female lead is a little weaker than I prefer but part of that is easily accounted for by the struggles she encounters dealing with her psychic gifts. Worthwhile purchase and engaging read--this author will be an auto-buy for me after the strength she has demonstrated in both her books.
Arousing Suspicions.......2007-03-12
Tabitha March is a psychic dream interpreter. Nate Darling is a detective. He is meeting with Tabitha undercover to investigate a complaint from one of Tabitha's former clients. When Tabitha sees Nate, she is immediately disturbed because she had dreamt that a man who looks just like Nate attacked her. After touching him, Tabitha is bombarded with images of death, pain, unfamiliar people and sex between her and Nate.
When Tabitha approaches Nate with information about a murder that her client has dreamt of, Nate scoffs at first, but then evidence sends him reluctantly back to her. Soon, Nate and Tabitha are working together, but Nate is still hesitant because he doesn't believe in Tabitha's abilities. This doesn't stop him from falling for her though. Now, there's a murderer on the loose, a mystery to solve, and a beautiful psychic falling for a disbelieving detective.
I loved Nate and Tabitha in Arousing Suspicions. Nate is a very magnetic character and I missed him when he wasn't in a scene. Tabitha is a sweetheart. She's pretty and smart and was the perfect woman to rock Nate's logical, by-the-book world. Arousing Suspicions is intriguing with dream interpretation, suspenseful with a building mystery and sensual with the sizzling sexual tension and passionate loving between Nate and Tabitha. I'm looking forward to reading more from Marianne Stillings.
Nannette
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fine paranormal romantic police procedural .......2007-03-03
In San Francisco respected business man Ed Figueroa complains to authorities that psychic dream interpreter Tabitha March is a con artist and solicitor. SFPD Inspector Nate Darling pretends to be her new client Nathan Damon. When they first meet both are stunned by the immediate attraction. When Nate tries his scam, Tabitha sees through his ruse and gives him insight into his life with his dad in Olympia while his two siblings lived with his divorced mom in San Francisco. After some miscommunication over her professional services to provide legal transcription not sex, he leaves.
Another new client Jack Griffin describes scenes of a murder in his dreams, which she "witnesses". Afterward Tabitha informs Nate what she saw in Jack's dreams; the hard evidence sleuth remains a skeptic insisting she don't know Jack until she offers him details that only the killer or an associate would know besides the cops. As she slowly wins him over that she is the real deal especially when she "sees" his last dream, they and his partner try to capture a serial killer, whom Nate assumes is Jack and Tabby thinks otherwise. Meanwhile Nate falls fall in love with Tabby, who recognized him from his first visit as a client as her soulmate.
AROUSING SUSPICIONS is a fine paranormal romantic police procedural starring the skeptic and the psychic. Though the theme has been used many times over especially of late, Marianne Stillings writes a brisk entertaining story line filled with wonderful twists that involve Jack's dreams. Fans will appreciate this delightful tale as Nate turns from "I'm Not in Love" skeptic to "I'm a Believer".
Harriet Klausner
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Beyond Suspicion
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When Jack Swytech's former girlfriend asks him to defend her in a case brought by investors who advance payment on insurance policies when their beneficiaries have been diagnosed with a terminal condition, it looks like an easy win; Jessie Merrill wasn't dying after all, but since Viatical Settlements accepted her doctor's somewhat equivocal diagnosis, they don't stand a chance of getting their money back. Still celebrating his victory, Jack learns that Jessie has lied to him; like the shady, possibly Mob-connected company that advanced Jessie the money, he's been scammed. Then Jessie is murdered in a bizarre scenario that not only sets Jack up as the prime suspect but also threatens his marriage to the woman who is still traumatized by a vicious attack perpetrated by another of his erstwhile clients. Enlisting the aid of his best friend, an ex-con who will do anything to protect the man who saved him from death row, Jack attempts to clear his name by finding the real murderer, who turns out to have a secret worth killing for. The serpentine plot manages to hold the reader's attention despite characters who seem drawn from central casting and a meandering pace that doesn't exactly compel one to keep turning pages to unravel the mystery. --Jane Adams
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After six exciting thrillers in seven years, bestselling author James Grippando is at last bringing back the main character from his blockbuster debut novel, The Pardon.
Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck is smart and tough and up to his neck in trouble. With more than a decade of experience in the criminal courts, Jack doesn't handle many civil cases. But this one is different. His client is a gorgeous ex-girlfriend who's being sued because she thought she was going to die.
When Jessie Merrill was diagnosed with a deadly disease and given just two years to live, she worked a deal with an insurance company to get cash fast. In exchange, a group of wealthy investors were supposed to collect on the policy at her death. But Jessie was misdiagnosed. She isn't going to die anytime soon, and the investors want their money back. Now.
At the trial, Jack pulls off a brilliant victory and Jessie gets to keep the $1.5 million from the investors. Two days later, Jessie's body turns up in Jack's bathtub. Though it has the markings of suicide, Jessie's death quickly begins to look more like murder. As the evidence mounts against him, Jack finds himself on a collision course with dark secrets from the past and a possible killer who is beyond suspicion.
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"E-book exclusive extra: "Dirty Blood and the Russian Mafiya: The Red Trail to Beyond Suspicion," an essay by James Grippando. Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck is smart and tough and up to his neck in trouble. With more than a decade of experience in the criminal courts, Jack doesn't handle many civil cases. But this one is different. His client is a gorgeous ex-girlfriend who's being sued because she thought she was going to die. When Jessie Merrill was diagnosed with a deadly disease and given just two years to live, she worked a deal with an insurance company to get cash fast. In exchange, a group of wealthy investors were supposed to collect on the policy at her death. But Jessie was misdiagnosed. She isn't going to die anytime soon, and the investors want their money back. Now. At the trial, Jack pulls off a brilliant victory and Jessie gets to keep the $1.5 million from the investors. Two days later, Jessie's body turns up in Jack's bathtub. Though it has the markings of suicide, Jessie's death quickly begins to look more like murder -- with Jack the prime suspect. As the evidence mounts against him, Jack finds himself on a collision course with dark secrets from the past and a possible killer who is beyond suspicion."
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A Really Good Thriller!.......2007-06-26
This is my second Grippando novel (I previously read Under Cover of Darkness) and I am starting to become a fan of this author. This book takes a big turn from the other book and has a great deal more action and suspense. Jack Swieteck defends a former girlfriend who ends up dead in his own bathtub. To complicate matters she apparently was murdered because of a medical scam against a group of investors who had bet their funds that she would die of Lou Gehrig's Disease. At first Jack is the primary suspect but then the blame seems to shift to his friend Theo (a former death row inmate).
The book has the usual "unstoppable" assassin (Yuri) running around that likes to determine how his victim will die by whether or not they left their porchlight on. He gets involved in some really graphically described scenes of pure torture that could make the most insensitized individual cringe.
Meanwhile there is an avenger named Katrina (she is really Cuban but Katrina is her adopted Czech name) who you are never really sure what side of the playing field she is on.
The book is full of plot twists and turns and never gets boring.
Suspicions Unfounded.......2006-09-05
After reading some of the reviews I was a little worried. Don't be worried. I really enjoyed Mr. Grippando's second installment of Jack's life. I'm not going to write a plot summary since Amazon and several reviewers do that quite well. I liked how fast paced this novel was and I did like the concept/ideas presented. I did agree with some of the other reviewers about how it wrapped up. Just felt it wrapped up way too quickly with some plot holes. I enjoy his books so maybe I'm a little bias. I do recommend this book in the series so you can understand the future books but The Pardon has been the best one so far that I've read.
Not a good sequel.......2006-05-27
Albeit the theme's book is kind of new, the viatical story with the Russian mob, the book loses itself in overly Miami descriptions. It also makes the love story of the first book "The Pardon" a phony one because in this book you'll know that Jessie was distraught since she were nine. So many of the situations in both books were because of Jessie, not because of Jack.
If you read this book first than the other one you may like it because of the brisk pacing of the story. But that won't happen if you first read "The Pardon"
letdownville.......2006-04-08
Started out great, but fizzled into a typical 3rd rate suspense yarn. I think this book has put me over the edge. I'm giving up reading books of this kind and will do more research on who is writing better stories that don't let me down at the end.
OK - you already have an idea what the plot's about - .......2005-07-25
so you may be wondering if this book is worth your time.
'Beyond Suspicion' is a quick-moving book and is a sequel to Grippando's first published novel 'The Pardon'. I read 'The Pardon' many years ago, but reading the first book is not a necessary requirement - Grippando sets the stage very well in this book so it can be a 'stand alone' novel.
I shot through this book very quickly - the plot drags you in pretty well and Grippando's writing style keeps the book moving along at a quick pace. The main character is fairly average and his world is suddenly turned upside down by one case and its connections to the underworld. Murder, mayhem and one family crisis after another keep it interesting. Grippando fills this novel with a multitude on interesting characters, any one of which would be strong enough to be the main character in a book.
A good solid read - a great summertime novel.
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This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries follow Inspector Barlach as he moves through worlds in which the distinction between crime and justice seems to have vanished. In The Judge and His Hangman, Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in order to manipulate him into killing another, more elusive criminal. And in Suspicion, Barlach pursues a former Nazi doctor by checking into his clinic with the hope of forcing him to reveal himself. The result is two thrillers that bring existential philosophy and the detective genre into dazzling convergence.
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Great Romantic Suspense.......2006-08-27
In this book Hannah Alexander moves the setting away from Hideaway to Jefferson City and the world of politics. Shona Tremaine is her fathers aide and personal assistant. She doesn't always approve of his actions, but he is her father and she doesn't feel she can walk away from him. At one time Missouri senator, Kemper McDonald's name stood for integrity, but temptation and greed have brought down many men and women who wheel and deal in the political world. Geoff Tremaine, Shona's husband has had enough. He tries to force her to choose between him and Kemper. Torn between the two men in her life, Shona's loyalty to her father causes the breakup of her marriage, although she never stops loving Geoff.
Then Shona finds her father dying in his Jefferson City mansion, and her name tops the list of suspects. Only her sister, Karah Lee, and Geoff believe she is innocent. After Shona appears in a TV interview, an attempt is made on her life. Time is running out, as Shona and Geoff sift through the web of lies surrounding the personal and political life of Kemper McDonald. Can they find the ruthless killer before he strikes again?
Hannah Alexander just keeps on getting better. The characters in Under Suspicion struggle against insurmountable odds, keeping the reader involved in the story from page one to the end of the book.
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Justice in Singapore is Janus-faced. Singapore judges have a reputation for the integrity of their judgments. This book is about cases in which the political context of the case influences the judges to render decisions in favor of the Singapore government and its leaders.
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We live in a cynical age. Cynicism is in the air we breathe; it is a cultural norm; it is the default setting and lens through which many of us view the world. Why is cynicism so pervasive? What does it promise? How does it work? And what does it deliver? In this thorough, interdisciplinary exploration of cynicism, Dick Keyes probes the intellectual and cultural underpinnings of cynicism in its modern and postmodern manifestations. In analyzing our cynicism toward individuals, institutions and God, he gives cynicism the scrutiny it deserves, arguing for its merits as a tool for discernment while pointing out its limitations. Keyes subjects cynicism to its own critique and ultimately looks beyond cynicism to alternatives that wrestle honestly with suspicion, trust and hope.Wide-ranging and vast in scope, Seeing Through Cynicism offers meaty, substantive perspectives for faithful living in a cynical world.
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Its all about you.......2007-09-06
Want to see your self in a different type of mirror, this one looks on the inside. Come to understand yourself and see the damage that cynicism creates in a life, a community, a nation. It has challenged me in a way that I needed. Please read this book, maybe with someone and grow together.
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A Cynical View of Cynicism.......2006-10-04
"Seeing Through Cynicism" is a book that has little use for those who claim see through individuals and institutions and thereby reveal their real motives for speech and actions. The author acknowledges that cynicism can uncover "oppression, dishonesty, hypocrisy, cruelty, and injustice." Yet for the author, "cynicism" is a pejorative term. Cynics, as the author characterizes them, have lost all balance in assessing the world, preferring to see duplicitous, self-interested behavior in all exchanges. Frankly, cynics so constructed seem psychologically disturbed, more in need of therapeutic counseling than taken seriously in a critique.
Fundamental to the author's analysis of cynicism is his adherence to the tenets of Christianity. He accepts on faith the existence of a ubiquitous God, an existence that is not challengeable by mere earth-bound, fallible men. It is disturbing to him that cynics seem to be claiming a God-like omniscience in analyzing others. The author is particularly vexed when so-called cynics turn their analysis to religion, specifically on Christianity. Attempts to understand versus merely accepting the practices of religion are quickly labeled as cynical. Some noted figures from the past, such as Marx and Freud, have held that religion can provide psychological benefits, justify or ensure elite domination, or inhibit the realization of maturity. These "instrumental" views of religion are viewed as cynical unwillingness to accept that faith exists in some pure form without ulterior motives or purposes.
It's difficult to hold a totally open conversation on a topic when some assumptions are off limits, like the existence of a transcendent, omniscient God, and attempts to understand those assumptions are automatically labeled as cynical. The author seems to take undue offence at these "masters of suspicion" when they turn analysis in the direction of his faith. His more moderate views that hold that cynics need to be guided by humility and to take people as individuals and not as part of a collective seem to get lost in his larger diatribe against those that dare question religious tenets. Regarding criticism more generally: there really is little basis for maintaining that critics hold themselves to be omniscient. It is more likely that the behaviors or situations being analyzed or criticized are not consistent with stated intentions. The author by alleging that such criticism is cynical, and likely self-serving behavior, is doing his part to hinder open discussion.
Unremitting, unrelenting cynics are straw-men, though, undoubtedly, some exist. Their harangues get old and are often ignored. It is not justifiable to label most social critics as compulsive cynics. We live in an era of capitalism and vast propaganda apparatuses. Again and again it comes to light that there are vast discrepancies between social ideals and practice often to the detriment of many. It is hardly surprising that there is substantial criticism, and even cynicism, concerning the social status quo. But remarkably, these social critiques seem to have limited impact. It is difficult to see how the author's defensiveness concerning criticism and questioning is helpful in increasing the effectiveness of dissenting and illuminating voices. Furthermore, he needs to get beyond discrediting critics because they do not operate from a faith-based position. As the title of this review suggests, it is very cynical to view such individuals as arrogantly declaring themselves to be all-knowing.
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Excellent Book on Atheism's use of Religion.......2004-10-23
Merold Westphal is an excellent philosopher, and this book shows that. He does a terrific job to show that Singmund Freud's, Karl Marx's and Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of religion are all a very biblical critique.
Westphal rightly notes the failures of any forms of Positivism to critique religion, and although Freud was a thorough-going positivist, his critique or religion did not rest on those assumptions. His critique of religion was that it was a wish-fulfillment. And in many ways, we Christians do make God into what we "wish" for Him to be. He had the most chapters on Freud, because his thinking is very complex and he had to go over all the facets of his thought.
The section on Karl Marx was very good, too. Marx (and Nietzsche for that matter) rested their critique of religion on ideologies. Marx relied heavily on Feuerbach's critique of religion for his crituqe, although he said Feuerbach didn't go far enough. Marx critisized religion because of the so-called German state being "Christian". The state was being oppresive. What Christians need to realize is that the Gospel does have political consequences and that God does care for the poor, and Marx definitely shows this. He compared Marx to the prophet Amos.
The section on Nietzsche is very good, also. Nietzsche was a terrific Philosopher, even though I definitely do not agree with him on everything. He has many good things to say. He bascially said that we use religion to get revenge on others. That is often the case, too. He said that we used religion to use our own "will to power". He compared Nietzsche's critique to Jesus' critique of the pharisees.
This was a terrific book on describing how these men's critique of religion is much like the biblical critique of religion, and is a very powerful look at human nature.
A good prophetic witness via good old fashioned philosophy.......2001-02-11
Back in 1992 I attended a lecture entitled "Nietzsche as Christian Philosopher." I was curious, and so went and heard a brilliant talk about the deep understanding Nietzsche had of the Christianity of his day, and why he found it necessary to reject it. The lecturer did not try to make Nietzsche into a Christian, of course, for Nietzsche was not one. Still, he pointed out that Nietzsche's critique grew out of his view, in part, of Christianity as a religion with a "slave mentality," one utterly lacking in a will-to-power. Apparently, Nietzsche had been reading Paul.
Westphal has also been reading Paul, and Augustine, and Luther, and Kierkegaard, in addition to the three founders of the "school of suspicion" as Ricoeur calls them: Frued, Marx, and Nietzsche. Westphal has brought back from his travels with these men a powerful and critical message for the church today; and when criticized, the church should pay close attention to the criticism. All three of these philosophers raise valid and very important concerns about not only the praxis of Christianity, but Christianity qua Christianity, as belief system and structure.
Nietzsche is indeed a Christian philosopher insofar as he shows us the will-to-power implicit in belief. He is correct that the Christ-idea of Christianity is antithetical to a will-to-power or a triumphalistic worldview, and that it would never and could never produce der Übermensch (that, in part, is why he hated it so). When Christianity weds itself to power, any power at all, it needs to read Nietzsche. It also needs to read Freud, badly, if it hopes to confront its wish-fulfillments in this-worldly "Kingdom of God"-speech, and its death-wishes in indulging apocalyptic orgies (note to Tim LaHaye: read more Freud). Christianity should also read Freud if it wants to really get an insight into Paul's "what I want to do, I do not, and what I do not want to do, I do," as well as a lot of Luther. Finally, a good re-reading of Marx (Marx has never really been given a good try, not since Lenin got him first and ruined him) might just show us why, after all, we not only cannot simply render unto Caesar, but why we constantly confuse Caesar and God. Great book by an important thinker.
Valid critiques of Christianity from atheism's pillars.......2000-12-17
This book is unique in that it is written by a Christian who uses the arguments of Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx to critique some of the shortcomings Christianity has shown over the last 2000 years. Its important to know that the author (Westphal) is strongly committed to the truthfulness of Christianity, but he wants other believers to know that we can learn something by listening to the words of these men. While many may ignore such advice when considering the source, I believe Westphal makes a lot of valid points in this book. He likens the critiques of Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx to those of the Old Testament prophets and Jesus. However, Westphal is careful not to blindly accept every criticism which comes from these men. He listens to what they have to say and then acknowledges when they're on the mark. Christians today could learn much by doing likewise.
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Transparency has, in recent years, become a watchword for good governance. Policymakers and analysts alike evaluate political and economic institutionsâcourts, corporations, nation-statesâaccording to the transparency of their operating procedures. With the dawn of the New World Order and the âmutual veil droppingâ of the post–Cold War era, many have asserted that power in our contemporary world is more transparent than ever. Yet from the perspective of the relatively less privileged, the operation of power often appears opaque and unpredictable. Through vivid ethnographic analyses, Transparency and Conspiracy examines a vast range of expressions of the popular suspicion of powerâincluding forms of shamanism, sorcery, conspiracy theory, and urban legendsâilluminating them as ways of making sense of the world in the midst of tumultuous and uneven processes of modernization.
In this collection leading anthropologists reveal the variations and commonalities in conspiratorial thinking or occult cosmologies around the globeâin Korea, Tanzania, Mozambique, New York City, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nigeria, and Orange County, California. The contributors chronicle how people express profound suspicions of the United Nations, the state, political parties, police, courts, international financial institutions, banks, traders and shopkeepers, media, churches, intellectuals, and the wealthy. Rather than focusing on the veracity of these convictions, Transparency and Conspiracy investigates who believes what and why. It makes a compelling argument against the dismissal of conspiracy theories and occult cosmologies as antimodern, irrational oversimplifications, showing how these beliefs render the world more complex by calling attention to its contradictions and proposing alternative ways of understanding it.
Contributors. Misty Bastian, Karen McCarthy Brown, Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff, Susan Harding, Daniel Hellinger, Caroline Humphrey, Laurel Kendall, Todd Sanders, Albert Schrauwers, Kathleen Stewart, Harry G. West
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I had to read this - First two Swyteck novels.......2006-11-10
After reading 'Got the Look' and 'Lying with Strangers', I had to go back and find all of the Grippando books I had missed. And because I became so attached to the adventures of Jack Swyteck, I had to start with the Swyteck suspense novels. A previous reviewer was correct when she said that reading the previous books will give you an appreciation for the special friendship between Jack and Theo.
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Bobby Gonzales, a promising young dancer with the Miami ballet, is the only suspect in the murder of Roger Cresswell, whose family has been building yachts for wealthy Floridians for two decades. Bobby is also the secret boyfriend of Angela Quintana, whose father Anthony, a successful criminal attorney, is having trouble letting go of the two main women in his life: his daughter and his former fiancée, Gail Connor. Angela asks Gail to help her clear Bobby; Gail is torn, knowing her participation will bring her face to face with the man she still loves.
Roger is the second Cresswell to die violently; his sister, a talented artist who was the wife of Anthony Quintana's client, took her life at the height of her fame. Those facts seem like more than coincidence to Gail, whose efforts to unravel the family secrets that seem to be at the core of the Cresswell deaths are complicated by her fondness for Angela, her belief in Bobby's innocence, and a surprising secret of her own.
Suspicion of Malice is as much a love story as a murder mystery, but Parker invests her plot with enough stylish touches to keep the momentum going. She excels at characterization--Gail's emotional depths and conflicted feelings are well explicated, Anthony's old-world machismo and modern vulnerabilities sympathetically portrayed, and the secondary players, especially Gail's mother and Anthony's grandfather, clearly and convincingly drawn. As in previous outings (Suspicion of Deceit, Suspicion of Betrayal), Parker has used the sexual tension between Gail and Anthony as they collaborate in crime-solving to good effect; how the events in their relationship that drive this thriller to its violent conclusion will affect their professional as well as personal affairs awaits a future installment. --Jane Adams
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The critics call Barbara Parker's work "top-drawer suspense" (The New York Times Book Review) and proclaim her to be "one of the genre's most accomplished performers" (The San Diego Union-Tribune). Now, in her most intense, unforgettable novel to date, Parker reunites Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana for a shocking case that exposes the underbelly of sleek Miami--a case that could bring them closer together, or destroy everything they hold dear.
A brutal murder takes place in the shadows of an exclusive party on the Miami waterfront. The victim is the heir to a yacht-building family fortune. Bobby Gonzales, a talented dancer with the Miami Ballet, is the prime suspect, as well as Gail Connor's newest client. Gonzales has an alibi, but it involves a respected Miami judge with whom he was smoking marijuana at the time of the murder. The judge is represented by Anthony Quintana, Gail's ex-fianc. Gail must join forces with Anthony--the man she'd vowed never to lay eyes on again--to find the killer and clear both their clients. Thrust back together with Quintana, Gail must decide if she should reveal a shocking secret . . . something she should have confessed months ago that will change both of their lives forever.
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Donada Peters incredible reader for Parkers characters.......2003-10-07
Donada Peters does so much more than read the words in Parker's books. She brings operatic talent and range in accents to bring the cast of characters to life, both male and female. The romantic magnetism between Anthony and Gail has left me eager for the next title, and distressed not to find an unabridged reading by Ms. Peters for the subsequent Parker titles. I am on hold in hope.
1st book ever read by Barabara Parker...........2003-07-22
This book is awsome! Amazon had suggessted that I would like this book when I was purchasing another one which was also another great book. So I read the first few pages that it gives you as a tease and decided to buy it as well. Now I'm going to the library in a few days when my request comes through for the first book of the series for this writer because this book was just that good. The twists that this book had kept me haning everytime I turned the page. It was very hard to put down and walk away.
Connor and Quintana keep sparks flying..........2002-02-20
in Barbara Parker's continuing "Suspicion" series.
The on-again, off-again romance of Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana has the stage set by a murder; each has a client that is on the fringe of the killing, and each has to support each other to insure that the real killer is unmasked.
Dysfunctional is the middle name of each person in the Cresswell family. Each remaining person, that is, because the book opens with the suspicious murder of Roger Cresswell, a killing that keeps tying back to Maggie Cresswell, his sister, who had been a victim of what seemed like suicide in a prior year. Anthony's daughter Angela, returns, getting Gail involved in the criminal defense (not a specialty of Gail's) to defend the boy she loves, dancer Bobby Gonzalez. Although Bobby is entangled in the background of the killing, so many of the Cresswells have motive, and so few of them have any admirable qualities, it seems that Gail and Anthony, working together against their better judgement, must pull the responsibility back to one of them, but whom?
Both Anthony and Gail, single parents and very different in heritage and background, leave the reader wondering about their attraction, and attraction it is, despite their break up in a prior instalment of the series. Although they remain together at the end of the book, it is only with some tragedy in their own lives, which draws the reader even closer to them.
The Miami setting is well-told in Parker's novels, and the romance never interferes with the mystery, just enhances it. A great read from a fine writer!
A Good Read.......2001-11-11
I enjoy Ms. Parker's Gail Connor series a lot, and this one is no exception. However, I may be in the minority, but I don't like the relationship between Gail and Anthony. I think they make much better adversaries than lovers, and I hope the author returns to that in future installments.
Excellent and Intelligent.......2001-10-21
Loved this book and sorry to have started late in the series. Will catch up real soon. This book kept me up late at night - a sure sign of a good read! Relationship was very intense and you never knew where it was going for long. Barbara Parker is on my reading list for sure now!
Books:
- At Play in the Fields of the Lord
- Baby Bargains: Secrets To Saving 20% To 50% On Baby Furniture, Equipment, Clothes, Toys, Maternity Wear, And Much, Much More! (Baby Bargains)
- Biggest Brother : The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led the Band of Brothers
- Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
- Buddhism for Mothers: A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children
- Caribbean Elegance
- Chocolate Covered Forbidden Fruit
- Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior
- Christmas in Camelot (Magic Tree House #29)
- Christmas in Heaven
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