Review: Wow!!! Sexy-Steamy Mystery
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2013
I don't remember many authors who are so prolific, releasing such wonderfully diversified stories. But I must say, Ms. Laura Harner is one of them! Ms. Harner is keeping us amused with her Pulp Friction novellas, along with friends Lee Brazil, Havan Fellows and TA Webb. If you haven't kept up with them, shame, shame.Forbidden Love has all the makings of a true southern mystery. A small southern town, with family histories and skeletons steeped in dark sinister intrigue. It's like reading the Hatfields and the McCoys, only the names have changed. In this small bayou town of Genereux Louisiana, Detective Danielle Delacroux is looking into a murder of one of the towns indigents. With no leads and nothing to go on, there is another murder of a low level drug dealer...Are they connected?One of feuding families' patriarch is Constantine Demetrios, an overbearing man who rules his home and empire with an iron fist. The second feuding household is the one of Julian Charbonnet. Enter Hawk Charbonnet, son of the wealthy shipping magnet and who is described as tall dark and yummy by our pert detective. The meeting of Dani and Hawk is electric, and Ms Harner stirs the pot with sensual and sexual tension immediately. He certainly has a dark side, and is well aware he could be being set up for the murders, but the magnetism between the two of them smolders and burns.The story line is fast paced with family members, both police Uncle Beau and Aunt LeAnn helping Dani when needed. Her dearest friend, Trolley, is a great addition, an openly gay police forensic officer. I loved him immediately. There are many others in this cast of characters, they are numerous and all are needed to complete this story. A cog in the wheel arrives as an FBI agent Tony Espinoza and as we get to know him, it is to hope no one falls prey to his dangerous plans.Ms. Harner spares us no details hidden for both the murders, which are graphic and true to your own imaginations, or the time Dani and Hawk spend together in hot, sexy, steamy love scenes. The story twists and turns as family secrets are exposed and the murderer is at large in this small town. Dani hurts for the under dog, these men who no one cares for that deserve a final hearing.I really enjoyed this story, as I love a great love story, and a wonderful mystery gets unraveled as a bonus....Review by Gloria LakritzSr Reviewer and Review Chair for the Paranormal Romance Guild