Review: Easy Read, Good Mystery
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2011
This is the book that sold me on my Kindle. I read half of this story in one sitting and would have kept reading then if not for the pesky need to fix supper for my children. Sydney Blackburn is a journalist on a mission: let no one else go through the pain of not getting justice for the death of a loved one. Jake Radley has a mission, too. He's determined to be the best cop he can be in order to live up to the legacy of his father, a police officer who died in the line of duty. Both of them want to see a serial killer come to justice, but sparks fly when they differ on just how it should be done.Jake is the perfect alpha hero, complete with an underlying vulnerability only Sydney can understand. Sydney, a brave and sassy heroine, avoids a common pitfall of suspense heroines--doing something stupid that gets her into trouble. I enjoyed the growth of these characters as well as the carefully crafted story. Dangerous Kisses is compulsively readable with a nice balance between mystery and love story.Even better, as a native Tennessean I really loved the Nashville setting which was a nice change of pace from other thrillers. Just a great read all around, and I didn't see the ending coming--unusual for me--yet it made perfect sense.