Historical Romantic Suspense published by Berkley 05 May 20
What do murder, science, and the supernatural have in common? It’s the winning formula for Ms. Quick’s latest romantic suspense novel in the Burning Cove series.
From the luscious cover to an empowered heroine that has me cheering and the twists and turns of a great plot, this is a fabulous chapter in the series.
The dagger killer always leaves an antique dagger at the scene of his crimes, but Vivian Brazier may have inadvertently found a second signature when she uses her psychic eye to look through the lens of her camera. She’s definitely hit a nerve since someone now seems to want her dead.
As Vivian goes through her daily routine photographing hunky beach guards, she starts to feel hunted. Her feeling is definitely borne out when she foils an attacker in her home at night, with a little bit of help from Nick Sundridge, PI, who’s been assigned to keep her alive.
Nick helps Vivian to look through all the footage that she’s been photographing to find clues. Before they can talk to what appear to be some suspicious characters, bodies start to pile up. Failure is not an option for Nick, who’s haunted by a near miss in his past, plus the red-hot chemistry between the two raise the stakes even further.
They’ve got to follow the clues and, trust me, there are some hairpin turns to find the killer before he finds Vivian. Ensconced in the Burning Cove Hotel with some new characters and a supporting cast of characters from the previous books in the series, Nick and Vivian hunker down and get to know each other a whole lot better in the process. Apparently Nick has his own psychic talent – lucid dreaming, which he employs as a tool, along with his connections to narrow down on the killer.
The author delivers suspense, romance, passion, friendship, and a great cast of characters. I can’t wait to see what comes next.
Grade: A
Summary:
Welcome to Burning Cove, California where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer…
Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes or headshots for aspiring male actors. Although she is set on a career of transforming photography into a new art form, she knows her current work is what’s paying the bills.
After shooting crime scene photos of a famous actress, the latest victim of the murderer the press has dubbed the “Dagger Killer,” Vivian notices eerie similarities to the crime scenes of previous victims—details that only another photographer would have noticed—details that put Vivian at the top of the killer’s target list.
Nick Sundridge has always been able to “see” things that others don’t, coping with disturbing dreams and visions. His talent, or as he puts it—his curse—along with his dark past makes him a recluse, but a brilliant investigator. As the only one with the ability to help, Nick is sent to protect Vivian. Together, they discover the Dagger Killer has ties to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood royalty and high society. It is a cutthroat world of allure and deception that Vivian and Nick must traverse—all in order to uncover the killer who will stop at nothing to add them to their gallery of murders.
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