Inheritance [Mass Market Paperback]

Jasmine Cresswell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2000

That was Isabelle Joubert's inheritance from her estranged father. A list of all the officials he'd bribed while running a profitable criminal operation. And now someone was willing to kill for it.

She was forced to turn to Sandro Marchese, her ex-lover and her father's employee. Sandro had answers that could save her -- perhaps save them both. But could she trust him? His name was on the list....

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Belle Joubert has always hated her family's illegal-arms business and has recently left Florida for Chicago to start a new and legitimate life of her own, but when her father dies, he entrusts her with a CD-ROM that contains the names of the crooks, judges and FBI agents he had to bribe to keep his business going. Drawn back into the bosom of her dysfunctional family, Belle is forced to barter the disk as ransom with the kidnappers of her brother, Tony. Hot on her heels is Sandro Marchese, the U.S. Customs investigator who seduced and abandoned Belle seven years earlier, when he worked undercover for her dad's company. Belle and Sandro's renewed relationship fails to ignite any sparks in the reader's imagination, however, and Cresswell's (The Disappearance) serviceable plot is a time-passer but never a page-turner. (Jan.)

Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: Mira (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551665115
• ISBN-13: 978-1551665115
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,626,997 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast paced romantic suspense, January 29, 2000

By 

Bonnie Gilbert - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inheritance (Mass Market Paperback)

After being estranged from her family for the past seven years Isabella Joubert goes home to Florida to visit her father on his deathbed. His last words before dying were that he wanted her to have a disk and where to find it. Isabella is confused but retrieves the mysterious disk.

A week later, back in Chicago, Isabella finds what the disk really is. A list of names. Names of people who her father bribed. Immediately Isabella plans to turn the disk over to the FBI, but then she notices the name of her ex-lover Sandro Marchese.

Dismayed by her discovery, Isabella is more than determined to turn the disk over to the authorities. But before Belle has a chance her house is broken into, her neighbor is murdered and she is on the run, all because somebody wants that disk. In desperation Belle is forced to turn to Sandro to help save her brother and her own life.

Jasmine Cresswell has once again written a fast paced, exciting read. Although not as exciting as The Disappearance or The Daughter, The Inheritance is sure to please.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book, April 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Inheritance (Mass Market Paperback)

I've enjoyed Cresswell's paranormal books in the past and only recently discovered that she writes suspense fiction as well. I found The Inheritance hard to put down, not just because I wanted to know what happened next, but also because I was interested in the moral dilemma faced by the heroine, Isabella Joubert. She loves her father, but knows he's a criminal. She loves her sister and brother, but can't trust either of them. It's almost inevitable that she will also fall in love with a man she isn't sure she can trust. Add this complex family background to a romance and a suspenseful mystery and you have a great book!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great work of romantic suspense, January 27, 2000

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inheritance (Mass Market Paperback)

After learning that her father Marc Joubert sold weapons to terrorists and rogues as the major income maker of the family export firm, Isabella leaves her Miami home. She settles in Chicago and has almost no contact with her family for the next seven years. However, she returns to Miami when she learns Marc is dying because, though she abhors what he has done, she loves her father. On his deathbed, Marc obtains a vow from Isabella that she handles a disk that contains the names of everyone he bribed over the years.

Soon Isabella finds her life in turmoil. Her neighbor is murdered and her home is trashed as if someone was looking for something. However, the biggest impact is the return of Customs Agent Sandro Marchese, the man she loved who betrayed her by selling out to her father. Sandro insists he wants to protect her from her father's many associates who want that disk. However, the disk contains evidence that would place him in jail. When her brother is kidnapped, Isabella knows that Sandro is her only hope to rescue her sibling and keep herself alive. As their love for one another rekindles, neither one trusts the other.

THE INHERITANCE is a fast-paced, action-packed romantic intrigue that never slows down to let the reader catch his/her breath. The story line is filled with excitement, sexual tension, and danger. Isabella and Sandro make a charming but seemingly doomed couple whose relationship cannot form without the fundamentals of trust. Jasmine Cresswell entertains the audience with a non-stop romantic thriller.

Harriet Klausner