A romantic, suspenseful, thriller. Very light and entertaining. This would make a good beach read, or a good “doing nothing on a lazy Saturday afternoon read” – which is when I read it.

I enjoyed it – at some points I found the plot to be a little forced and contrived and overdone – too many situations going on at once and too many subplots. The author does a good job of bringing it all together in the end and explaining all the loose ends. I did feel like the “twist” was more so this novel wouldn’t have a traditional romantic suspense genre ending rather than related to the plot or to tie up the story, though and I don’t know if it was entirely necessary, but it did add interest and two more chapters.

I really enjoyed how Scottoline used the theme of justice versus law throughout the novel and brought in the Underground Railway and escaped slaves to add realism to the story as well as advance the plot line.

I can’t remember if I’ve ever read another Scottoline – I wouldn’t say no to another of her books, as long as I was in the mood for something light and insubstantial.

I really enjoyed this audiobook. It is suspenseful, thrilling and kept me guessing until the very end.  The narrator’s voice is sultry and sexy…rather than try and ‘affect’ a female voice, he uses intonation and inflection to vary his voice for the female characters and his male characters have decidedly different ‘sounds’.  For me, the narrator can make or break the enjoyment of an audiobook regardless of how good the story is. In this case, he definitely made it!

 Paris Gibson and Dean Malloy share a past and are thrown together in the hunt for a missing young woman.  Paris has received threats made to her at the radio show from a sinister man who calls himself Valentino. Valentino has it in for Paris, but before he gets to her, he threatens to kill another young woman. The race is on for Paris, Dean (a criminal psychologist) and the police department to find the girl and Valentino before it’s too late.  To complicate matters further, Dean’s teenage son, is implicated in the murder because of his brief affair with the girl and his involvement in an internet club called The Sex Club – an online forum for young men and women to solicit sexual favours from each other.

 Throughout the novels twists and turns of whodunit are also twists in the relationship between Paris and Dean and what secret they share and how it has affected their lives for the last 7 years and how it will affect it going forward.

 I found I didn’t want to stop listening to this one and highly recommend it if you like suspenseful, but not gory, thrillers.

 I will definitely be watching out for this narrator on other audiobooks.

This novel takes place in France, England and Wales during the time of the Crusades. The Catholics are killing “heretics” in sweeps of the country side and innocent people are on the run for their lives.

 Two of these people, Roslyn (the Gleemaiden) and a young boy, David, make their way from France to England with a knight named Miles Hobey. Miles is deathly ill from an injury, but they manage to find their way to Mile’s friend Richard Straccan who takes them in and vows to protect them.

 They hide with Straccan on a pilgrimage to deliver a bell to Durham with three “Angels” hot on their trail. Samael, Michael and Uriel are three men who have never met but share a common mission to find Roslyn and David and to kill David.  Who has hired these men and why do they want David?

 Both Roslyn and David have unique gifts – Roslyn can see spirits of the dead and David can create fire and throw stones using his mind.

Although this is third novel featuring Straccan, I didn’t feel as if it were part of a series and it stood quite well alone.