Review: LOVED it!  Great Romantic Suspense read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2011
Sometimes the best books are the ones you have no expectations about, don't even know anything about and discover quite by accident.  I was trolling through Amazon, checking out .99 books and noticed Stolen Justice had quite a few good 5 star reviews.  I've never heard of this author, but the blurb sounded good and since romantic suspense if my favourite genre, for .99 even if it stunk - no big deal.Stolen Justice is like a little gem I discovered and it is as far from a stinker as you can get.  I loved it!A sure sign for me about how much I like a book is when I want to read it to the exclusion of doing all else. I was sitting in the dentist office on Friday afternoon and all I could think about was "hurry up so I can get out of this chair so I can finish reading Stolen Justice. I also knew before I was  way finished reading that I would be giving it 5 stars.Laura Danvers is a nerdy geek, Bill Gates smart computer chick and she's got a plan to bring down a scumbag.  To execute her plan she's going to need JT Flynn and his "crew" to make that happen.This book was non-stop action with an Ocean's 11/12 or Mission Impossible feel to it.  The plan to bring down Ibank CEO and humanitarian Rob Autry who is also the scum of the earth running a secret underground website that launders money and is involved in the sex trade (again the "IT" topic of a lot of books I've read this year) was complicated, elaborate and dangerous.Laura had the necessary goods on JT and his team to gain his compliance (what's a little blackmail between friends?) and although JT was pissed at being blackmailed, he felt he had no choice but to agree to help Laura even if it meant risking his team.JT runs the heist of a famous Van Gogh painting in Rob's possession like a precise military operation. Every member of his team has a job and he runs a tight ship as the leader of his pack.  In reality Laura is the brains behind the operation and she may just have kept a few pertinent details from JT...ohhh boy did she! The twists and turns and secrets revealed as the story progressed kept me on edge and kept me riveted to my IPOD and swiping the pages. Lots of things I didn't see coming.The planning and heist take place over only a couple of days and the pace and action is frantic. I loved JT and Laura, the secondary characters in the crew were compelling and the entire story was one of the best RS I've read in a while.  I scoured the interwebz to see if I could find out if DJ Gross had another book but no luck - I couldn't even find a webpage for her.  I hope she releases another book soon!