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REVIEW: Silent Run by Barbara Freethy

Dear Ms Freethy,

Silent RunRomantic suspense usually isn’t my bag. I hate books with sadistic serial killers who lovingly anticipate their next kill - generally the heroine who has to pull a TSTL moment to get the plot where it needs to be - or who insist on remembering their last one. And ex-cops, ex-SEALs, ex-’name your macho job of the moment’ are a dime a dozen now. Add to that trying to balance the suspense and the romance - yeah, well I have ‘issues’ with rom-susp books. Which makes me all the more bizarre for me to read the back cover blurb of the book Jane sent me and actually decide to give “Silent Run” a try.

Sarah - if that’s what her name is - and Jake have a past. One which he remembers all to well - including returning from a business trip to find her gone along with their 7 month old daughter and the apartment stripped of all traces of their existence - and which she has no memory of. Until he storms into her hospital room demanding answers. Seven months of searching have turned him bitter and unwilling to listen …