Journalism

This was a great book, and the first I've read of this author. Playboy journalist John McAllister can't get his mind off of Celie, who is smack dab in the middle of her ex-husband's murder investigation. I liked that this story held a criminal investigation plot without the hero being police. It was a nice change, and easy to fall in love with the characters. Great writing!

After reading the author's first book, I wasn't disappointed in this one. This features Rayma, the secondary character in her first novel, who has gone to South Padre Island to begin a new life. There, she meets a chef whom she believes is part of a drug cartel.

Tory Martin is a foreign correspondent with the associated press, covering troubled areas. Now she's taken 3 weeks vacation to get revenge on the dictator of a small Latin American country, La Paz.

Lee Palmer is happy enough working as assistant editor at Lively Lady magazine and visiting her widowed mother and crippled brother on the weekend when new owner Adam Boothe takes over to give the magazine a sexy new makeover, including a new name, New Lady.

Jonathon and Caroline Kushner were happily married for 5 years, and Caroline, a former high fashion model, had even taken up working on the fashion section at Jonathon's paper. But then Caroline came home one day to find a naked woman in her bed and Jonathon fully dressed nearby, so she slammed out of his life and that was a month ago.