12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
This was a good mystery but some items left me puzzled. Also, the romance could have been better explained and developed., November 21, 2008
This review is from: Cold Pursuit (Mass Market Paperback)
REVIEWER'S OPINION:
There were many secrets kept by many people which did not unravel until toward the end of the book. There were still some unsolved secrets at the end, some of them probably to continue in a sequel. Other unresolved items frustrated me and could have been answered better in the book. I describe them in Spoilers below. I would have preferred more romantic development of the relationship between Jo and Elijah. We are told they were in love as teenagers and then separated. The main story begins 15 years later, where their paths cross and the relationship continues as if it had never stopped.
STORY BRIEF:
Jo and Elijah were in love as teens. Elijah's dad kicked him out of the house at age 19, and Elijah spent the next 15 years in the military. He comes home to Black Falls to recuperate from an injury and to investigate his father's recent death. Jo became a secret service agent in Washington, D.C. She returns to Black Falls on a short-term leave. Alex is killed, and his stepdaughter Nora fears for her life. Nora has been living in Black Falls. She packs a tent and hiking gear and plans to hide in the nearby mountains. Jo and Elijah try to find her.
DATA:
Story length: 368 pages. Sexual language: mild. Number of sex scenes: 4. Total number of sex scene pages: 9. Setting: current day Black Falls, Vermont area and Washington D.C. Copyright: 2008. Genre: romantic mystery suspense.
CAUTION SPOILERS:
IF YOU ARE THINKING OF READING THE BOOK, THEN DO NOT READ BELOW. IT GIVES AWAY SOME OF THE STORY.
I was confused as to (1) why Elijah never answered Jo's letters 15 years ago and (2) why he proposed to her 15 years later, after being together for just a few days. I wished the author developed the relationship more. I never understood why Jo and Scott didn't get along. I wish the author had a better explanation as to why Nora believed Melanie was bad. Instead, the author said it was Nora's intuition. I wanted to know why Devin didn't trust Elijah. Elijah and his brother had been good to Devin. Myrtle was an interesting character, but I wanted to know more about why her love was killed. At the end of the book, I still didn't know why all the deaths had occurred, other than some people "knew too much," but about what I didn't know. Nora definitely didn't know anything, so I wanted to know why the assassins wanted to kill her.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
COLD PURSUIT is the perfect name for this riveting read, November 17, 2008
This review is from: Cold Pursuit (Mass Market Paperback)
When Secret Service agent Jo Harper is caught on tape ripping Charlie Neal, the teenage son of the Vice President of the United States, a new one, her career suddenly takes a nosedive. While the incident with Charlie was a prank gone wrong, it was a humiliation that Jo could have lived without. Now she's been exiled to twiddle her thumbs in the small town of Black Falls, Vermont, where she has recently inherited a piece of land until the public furor dies down.
Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you want to look at it, Jo's first love, military hero and general tough guy Elijah Cameron, is also back in town, and Jo has definitely recaptured his interest. Recently critically wounded in Afghanistan, Elijah has recovered physically, though his heart has never healed from the pain of losing Jo all those years ago. Jo and Elijah were in love as teenagers, but the opposition of their families drove them apart, and they both went their separate ways. Now they are back where it all began, and it's obvious to both of them that their old feelings have never died.
Unfortunately, there are still ghosts between Jo and Elijah keeping them apart. Elijah's dad, Drew, recently perished of hypothermia in a snowstorm on the mountain named for his family, Cameron Mountain. But Elijah is not buying it. Something doesn't sit right with him that the man who knew the mountain better than anyone would die in such a fashion. Drew had visited Jo in Washington, D.C. only a short time before his death but never divulged to her that he was leaving her the land connected to the Cameron property.
As if Jo doesn't have enough to deal with, a prominent ambassador is mowed down in a mysterious hit-and-run accident, and his stepdaughter, Nora Asher, who just happens to be in Black Falls, takes off on a solo sojourn up Cameron Mountain.
A local boy to whom Nora has become close, Devin Shay, follows Nora up the mountain in order to see to her safety. Before long, a serious snowstorm moves into the area and the kids require rescuing from the elements. Devin has already suffered enough trauma since he was the one who discovered the body of Elijah's dad, Drew, a man who had been like a father to him, yet his friendship with and concern for Nora drive him on.
The elements are not the only problem for these two teenagers, however. They have crossed paths with the assassins responsible for more than one death and are now in the crosshairs of killers. Elijah and Jo, aware of the danger the kids are in, set off up the mountain together in order to rescue them from the dual danger they've found themselves in. Will they be in time, or will the kids become just another casualty of those with nefarious intentions?
COLD PURSUIT is the perfect name for this riveting read. Author Carla Neggers's passages are so descriptive that one almost finds one's teeth chattering from fear and anticipation as well as from the cold. While the chemistry between Jo and Elijah was practically hot enough to melt the falling snow, the chill from the emotionless and guiltless killers' icy hearts is enough to cause frostbite to our very souls.
--- Reviewed by Amie Taylor
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
exciting romantic suspense thriller, November 4, 2008
This review is from: Cold Pursuit (Mass Market Paperback)
Secret service Agent Jo Harper is put on administrative leave because while doing her duty an incident turns into an unfair YouTube scandal of her with the Vice President's merry prankster sixteen years old son Charles Preston Neal. She returns to her hometown Black Falls, Vermont hoping her fifteen minutes of sensationalism ends quickly so she can go back to work; her fear is her career is over.
Also back in town recovering from a war wound in Afghanistan is Special Forces Sergeant Elijah Cameron. Besides recuperating, Elijah investigates the death of his father Drew seven months ago.
At the same time, Jo's friend Thomas Asher witnessed the murder of former Ambassador to Great Britain Alex Bruni in a hit and run in which Thomas' daughter college age Nora fled into the mountains; Thomas's former wife and Nora's mom is Bruni's widow. Former lovers when they were teens until Drew ended their relationship, Jo and Elijah find their inquiries link; as they fall in love while investigating two murders and search for the missing girl, the killers seek Nora too.
This is an exciting romantic suspense thriller filled with humor and action as Carla Neggers brings the Green Mountain State to life. Jo and Elijah are tough and courageous, but inside both are vulnerable especially when it comes to the other. Readers will relish this exhilarating complex cat and mouse tale.
Harriet Klausner
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