This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.
REVIEWED BY DEBS CARR
Lucy Rothschild has started online dating as research for her latest crime novel. She goes to the coffee shop to meet her latest ‘date’ and can’t help being pleasantly surprised to meet Quinn McIntyre, a handsome, recently widowed plumber. She feels a little sorry for him, and although she’s suspects some of what he says isn’t the truth, she can’t miss how he concentrates so intently on everything she has to say.
What she doesn’t know is that Quinn is actually a cop. He’s working undercover in an effort to track down Breathless, a serial killer who meets her victims online only to go back with them to their homes. The killer then entices them into bed, where she handcuffs the victims and suffocates them by placing a plastic bag over their heads.
Lucy is unaware that she is a suspect, but having exchanged emails with one of the dead men, as well as going on a ‘date’ with another, the police have her marked down as a definite suspect who should be checked out. Quinn is a professional and determined to find the killer. What he hadn’t expected was that he’d be so attracted to Lucy. It takes all his concentration to remember that the woman who has such an effect on him could also be the person he’s trying to put behind bars and who might possibly be planning to kill him.
Lucy only intends meeting him once like she did with her previous dates, but when he persists she begins to relax and believe that maybe he is worth getting to know a little better. She starts to fall for him, unaware that every word she utters to Quinn is taped and that the van across the road has two other officers listening in on their conversations. When Lucy goes back to Quinn’s house for a meal, things between them get a little steamy. And just when she starts to think that Quinn is everything she could have wished for, real life kicks in and everything starts to fall apart.
This is the second Rachel Gibson book I’ve read and I can’t wait to read her others. The sexual tension between the two characters is brilliantly written. The twists and turns of the plot kept me desperately wanting to find out what happens between Lucy and Quinn, as well as who was committing the murders.
A steamy 9/10