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July 26, 2015

REVIEW: Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart

JayneB ReviewsAustria / First-Person / horses / mystery/suspense / romantic-suspense / smuggling / veterinarian20 Comments

While having tea with her mother’s school friend Carmel Lacy, Vanessa March learns that her husband Lewis, whom she believes to be in Stockholm on business and with whom she had a row before he left, appears in a newsreel story in Austria. Carmel, assuming Vanessa will be joining Lewis ... more >

June 1, 2015

REVIEW: Spotless by Camilla Monk

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAssassin / contemporary romantic suspense / France / Japan / romantic-suspense / spoof / thriller/suspence / virgin heroine4 Comments

Island Chaptal—nerdy IT engineer by day, romance novel junkie by night—just walked into her messy New York apartment to find Mr. Right waiting for her. No, wait…Mr. Clean. A gentleman professional killer with a bad case of OCD and zero tolerance for unsorted laundry, March isn’t there to kill her…yet. ... more >

February 27, 2015

Reading List by Sunita for February

SunitaBook Reviews / Reading ListsHarlequin Intrigue / Harlequin-Presents / Historical Fantasy / multicultural / non-fiction / Reading lists / Recommended Reads / romantic-suspense / self-help / Urban-Fantasy13 Comments

Playing by the Greek’s Rules by Sarah Morgan Yay, Sarah Morgan has a new Presents out! I picked this up when it appeared at Kobo at the beginning of the month and read it in one sitting. This book is billed as a prequel to Morgan’s new single-title Puffin Island series, ... more >

February 15, 2015

REVIEW: Way of the Shadows by Cynthia Eden

JaneB- ReviewsContemporary romance / Harlequin Intrigue / romantic-suspense2 Comments

Dear Ms. Eden: One of your biggest fans is Mistress M from SM Book Obsessions. The other day when I was nosing around for a book to read, instead of diving into my one thousand plus to be read pile (this may or may not be an exaggeration), I was trawling ... more >

January 31, 2015

REVIEW: Beyond Limits by Laura Griffin

RoseB- ReviewsFBI / Navy SEALs / romantic-suspense / texas5 Comments

Dear Ms. Griffin, I’m usually not a huge fan of romantic suspense novels with terrorism plots, and the super-special military (super) heroes aren’t my cup of tea, either. So at least on paper, Beyond Limits wasn’t quite the book for me. But I have enjoyed several of your novels and I ... more >

October 27, 2014

REVIEW: The Moonspinners by Mary Stewart

JayneB+ Reviews1960s / First-Person / Greece / mystery / romantic-suspense24 Comments

Young, beautiful, and adventurous Nicola Ferris loves her life as a secretary at the British Embassy on Greece. On leave from her job as a secretary in Athens, has been looking forward to a quiet week’s holiday in the lush island of Crete, enjoying the wild flowers and the company ... more >

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