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Betrayals

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I really enjoy Carla Neggers's books and was really up for a new one. Right from the start, this doesn't contain her recent cast of characters or related law enforcement characters. I purchased this on the Kindle so it wasn't until I finished the book and read the end papers that I got it - "First published by Berkley Books 1990 under the pseudonym Anne Harrell". Mystery solved! If you take it as "current day" is about 1990, you may stop wondering why the characters don't have cell phones.

I'm not a reviewer that is going to rehash the book jacket.

It was a good book - just not what I was expecting and a little too "coincidental" for my taste.

I didn't realize while reading this that it's a reprint of a 1990 novel written under a psuedonym. Therefore, I was surprised by the larger and more complicated plot than I have asociated with the author. The novel follows two families ever a period of 30 years and involving three continents. Ten prikceless gems are the key to a series of events creating enmity between the two families and spurring tragic events. However, much more than simple greed motivates the various characters. This is a page turner, but coincidence plays to heavy a part and the eventual ending is too neat an unravelling of the multiple knots in the story's thread. This is however a satisfying Summer read and reveals Neggers' skill at handling a multi-layered story.