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Blind Faith

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After being the Philadelphia police force's most popular investigative reporter, Kelly Robolo becomes known as "Typhoid Kelly." During a Chinatown shakedown, Kelly, who was shot, inadvertently caused the death of an underground cop. The cops harass her with undeserved tickets and graffiti at her home.

Kelly's best friend Victoria Bowman asks her to look into the disappearance of her faithful, adoring spouse Jonathan. Reluctantly, while still recovering, Kelly agrees. She tries to enlist the aid of police detective Nick McBride, but he rips her head off, still blaming her for the death of his partner. As the evidence piles up that Jonathan had a mistress in Miami, Nick sees a strong link to the homicide of his father last year. Nick joins forces with Kelly not knowing where their attraction for one another will go or where the investigation will lead.

BLIND FAITH is a powerful suspense thriller. The story line is fast-paced, requiring a one-sitting read, as the audience will want to know what really happened. Kelly is a great heroine who readers will admire. Although Nick's change of heart occurs due to his learning that his partner was dirty, his ease of accepting Kelly seems too simple. Still, as a team, they are dynamic. Christiane Heggan shows why she is so popular with fans with this taut investigative thriller.

Harriet Klausner

Christiane Heggan is one of the best female mystery novelists that there is on this planet. I have read all of her novels and I believe that "Blind Faith" was by far her best. The book is classified as Romantic Suspense, but it is practially all hard core suspense. Kelly Robolo, a Connecticut investigate reporter, is startled to hear the news that her best friend, Victoria Bowman's, husband Jonathan, has been killed in a Miami fire in a drug infested hotel. Kelly and Victoria both know that Jonathan is not that kind of person and think that Jonathan has been set up by his boss and casino owner. Kelly calls upon her only police friend, Nick McBride, to help and solve this puzzling crime. As they investigate they find a link between Jonathan's "death" and Nick's father's death two years ago, who worked for the casino's security company. Non stop suspense, with a little romance thrown in. If you are going to only read one book this year, then definitely read "Blind Faith."

Ms Heggan has done it again. After reading her previous books "Enemy within", "Trust No One", "Deception" and "Suspician" I believed she could not top the past books. she proved me wrong. This is a book you simply can not put down. Every chapter has something happening and not just words to fill in the pages like most novels. Everything ties in together and makes sense. You look back and say "I should have figured that out". Kelly Robolo is an investigative reporter. Kelly's best friend's husband is missing and asks Kelly to help. Right from the start Kelly knows something fishy is going on. She gets the help from sexy cop Nick McBride who also has a lot of unanswered questions. Together they work great as a team and you can't help but laugh and cheer for them. I can't say too much without giving the plot away. But I can say that you will enjoy reading every page with all the plots working their way to one big one. Enjoy

I love reading novels by Christiane Heggan. Ms. Heggan is a very creative/wonderful writer and I've read nearly all of her novels which are each filled with a lot of mystery, suspense and intrigue. Blind Faith was a good reading experience and one I don't think you'd want to miss. There's a lot of action and suspense and you'll be guessing until the end whodunit. The characters are simply excellent. Investigative reporter Kelly Robolo and Detective Nick McBride do set the pages ablaze as the plot untangles. The story is enjoyable and I think you'll catch the feeling of excitement as I did. If you haven't read one of Ms. Heggan's novels, try one - you just might like it.

I really wish I could endorse this book as heartily as everyone else who reviewed it, but the truth is, I found it difficult to read at times, and midway through, considered just not finishing it at all.

I do give the author big points for effort, and for a fairly intricate plot line. It fell short for me in characterization and plausability. I found Nick's remarkable change of heart regarding Kelly jarring, too easy, too quick and just not believable. He literally did a 180 in his attitude about her in less than four pages - maybe if the specific situation that makes him change his mind would have happened later in the book after I got a chance to know him, it would have made more sense. Up until that point, he had only appeared briefly and the only background we got was that Kelly had worked with him before. I was still in the first chapter when I got the distinct impression that there was supposed to have been a book before this one (and maybe there was and I just missed it).

Again, my apologies to the readers who really liked this book, but there was just something off about the situations and characters here. When I read the author biography, I thought maybe I had stumbled across what it was - the author is French, although it said she lives in New Jersey now. It seemed to me like many, many passages in the book were similar to bad dubbing - I could see the characters doing something, but the words that were coming off of the page didn't match. Kelly is by far the most interesting character in the book, but the writing seems so self-conscious that it was hard to see her personality come off the page, something that authors like J.D. Robb and Catherine Coulter do remarkably well in the same genre. Nick seems like a caricature, sort of the handsome, funny, sweet cop with a heart of gold - not much of a foil for Kelly, in my opinion.

I may be too picky about my authors, but this just wasn't a good read for me, despite the interesting plot (which is what garnered this book a 4-star rating from me). I just never cared much if Kelly and Nick got together.

Investigative reporter, Kelly Robolo, used to be in good with the police, especially with Detective Nick McBride. but while helping a friend who was being forced to pay for "protection" in Chinatown, she was shot and (undercover) Detective Matt Kolvic was killed. Now the police shunned her, harassed her, and did not answer calls if she was the victim of any crime.

While still on medical leave, her closest friend, Victoria Bowman, called her for help. Her husband, Jonathan, was missing. Soon there was evidence of an affair and possible drug trafficking from the casino in which he was an executive of. Swallowing her pride, Kelly went to Nick for help. He promptly told her to get lost!

Nick's father used to work, high on the food chain, at the same casino that Jonathan had. He was soon convinced that Jonathon's disappearance and his father's murder a year ago were somehow linked. The widow of Matt also found out that her husband was more than "undercover", he had actually been part of the protection ring! Nick was positive that was connected as well.

Soon Nick and Kelly are forced to join together in hopes of figuring out truth from lies and set ups. But more than one person had a grudge against Kelly, and Matt had his share of problems as well.

***** A Police Thriller and a Modern Contemporary all-in-one! This one catches its readers and holds onto them for dear life! Fast paced, full of action, twists, and surprises! I see awards in the future for this one!

Investigative reporter, Kelly Robolo, used to be in good with the police, especially with Detective Nick McBride, but while helping a friend who was being forced to pay for "protection" in Chinatown, she was shot and an (undercover) Detective Matt Kolvic was killed. Now the police shunnher, harass her, and didn't answer calls if she needed any help. While still on medical leave, her closest friend, Victoria Bowman, called her for help. Victoria's husband, Jonathan, was missing. Soon there was evidence of an affair and possible drug trafficing from the casino in which he was an executive of. Swallowing her pride, Kelly went to Nick for help. Nick's father used to work, high on the food chain, at the same casino that Jonathan had. He was soon convinced that Jonathon's disappearance and his father's murder a year ago were somehow linked. The widow of Matt also found out that her husband was more than "undercover", he had actually been part of the protection ring! Nick was positive that was connected as well. This one catches its readers and holds onto them for dear life! Fast paced, full of action, twists, and surprises! I see awards in the future for this one!

WOW!!! The ending was not as I expected. During my reading of this book I was thinking that it was so obvious who was behind the killings...but I was wrong. I was very shocked to say the least. The book from the very beginning was interesting. I could not get anything else done for wanting to read this. I would take it to work with me and read on breaks and lunchtime. The author is without a doubt my favorite. Everything I have read by her has been interesting from page 1. Indulge yourself today in the works of Christiane Heggan.

What a GREAT book!!I had a lot of things I had to do in my house, and what am I doing----reading Blind Faith. I COULD NOT put it down. The romance, mystery, heck, everything about this book is FANTASTIC.

Heggan's action and suspense novels continue to impress me. I love that she keeps you guessing. The plots are not predictable and there's always a surprise to the end.