Review: Cantrell's best yet...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2014
“First Lady Kills President Lovinggood”December 5, 2018Thirty years later...This is the third book I've read by Elaine Cantrell and it's by far, her best yet! The characters come to life on the pages. The action and the romance are perfectly balanced. It's a wonderful blend of suspense, mystery, political dealings, and romance-- minus any explicit writing.Cantrell has a gift writing characters. You love to love her good guys, and you really like to dislike her bad guys. My favorite character in the book is the Senator, patriarch of the family. He's lived a tortured life after losing his son and daughter in law to a tragedy played out on the national stage. Incapable of dealing and moving on, he raises his orphaned grandson in the shadow of the memory of the child's dead father, extending his own tortured life into his grandson's life.Wonderful, simply wonderful character writing.  And Cantrell gives Hank, the main character, a wicked sense of humor. I literally laughed out loud several times while reading the book.