law-enforcement

REVIEW: Salvation, Texas by Anna Jeffrey

Dear Ms. Jeffrey, When I started reading your book, I was so glad that I work with a woman who’s owned horses for years and who has taken me out to ride her horses many times because I immediately caught one of your first clues that something wasn’t right about the crime scene. “Whoohoo,” I(…)

REVIEW: Bad Girl by Michele Jaffe

Dear Ms. Jaffe: I feel for you. I really do. You really, really must have made someone angry in the art and title department. Why else would they saddle your outstanding contemporary romance suspense book with the cutesy cover and an even worse title? I imagine that those readers looking for a fun cute read(…)

REVIEW:  Dream Man by Linda Howard

REVIEW: Dream Man by Linda Howard

Dear Ms. Howard: I know that you won’t be reading this letter as you are not an onliner, but let me tell you about my love for Dream Man. To some, this is a terrible book filled with a terrible betrayal by the hero. To me, it shows the extent I will overlook things when(…)

REVIEW: Spying in High Heels by Gemma Halladay

Dear Ms. Halladay: I know this letter isn’t fair because I picked up your book thinking you were another author, Gemma Bruce. In my defense, you were in the romance section, but I think your book is better classified as a chick lit whodunit with all the accoutrements of the chick lit book. All the(…)

REVIEW: Bodyguard by Beverly Havlir

Dear Ms. Havlir, Several of your books were nominated during our monthly ebook contests but it’s taken me until now to try one. Unfortunately, it didn’t work too well for me. You describe your heroine as super intelligent, a woman who graduated from college at age 16 and who at age 26 is a trauma(…)

REVIEW: Blood Moon by Deanna Lee

Dear Ms. Lee: This is the second installment in the Kyra Moray series. In Still Waters, we were introduced female detective Kyra Moray set in a slightly futuristic New Orleans. In the midst of solving a serial killing crime, Kyra meets her love interest Alex Waters. The problems I had in the first book were(…)

REVIEW:  Dangerous Cravings by Evangeline Anderson

REVIEW: Dangerous Cravings by Evangeline Anderson

Dear Ms. Anderson, This was my first book by you and I bought you because I read some of your comments on Bam’s website and because Bam gave you a positive review for The Assignment. I bought that one too, but started with this book. You may not know this but I like police procedure(…)

REVIEW:  Snow Blind by PJ Tracy

REVIEW: Snow Blind by PJ Tracy

Dear Ms. Tracy, I was unsure how to address my letter because you are a mother-daughter writing team. Neat. I understand that you are a bestseller in the UK but not here in the US. Those Brits have good taste. As a general rule, I don’t read books without romances and your books are solidly(…)

REVIEW: Good Girl Gone Bad by Karin Tabke

Dear Ms. Tabke: I have a feeling that after this review, you aren’t going to like me very much. Please try to remember that this letter is about your book and not about you. Because I hated it – the book, that is. It was the worst piece of drivel that I have read in(…)

REVIEW: Still Waters by Deanna Lee

Dear Ms. Lee, This is a good police procedure book that is hobbled by the villian (like many a police procedure book) and two major police procedure errors or at least two scenes which featured police procedure actions which seemed impossible to me. It’s spicy love scenes; strong, assertive, capable heroine; and quick pace kept(…)