Innocent as Sin LP [Large Print] [Paperback]

Elizabeth Lowell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 19, 2007

Kayla Shaw is a private banker in Arizona—smart and capable but underpaid and underappreciated. Rand McCree is a haunted man painting landscapes in the Pacific Northwest, burning with the need for answers about the terrible event that shattered his world. They are two strangers with nothing in common . . . until their lives entwine—and explode.

Suspicious of each other, needing each other, they are two against the world—with unknown enemies on all sides and even the government itself suspect—as the violence of the past erupts in the present. And now innocence alone will not be enough to keep Kayla Shaw alive. . . .

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Elizabeth Lowell's acclaimed suspense novels include the New York Times bestsellers Blue Smoke and Murder, Innocent as Sin, The Wrong Hostage, Always Time to Die, The Color of Death, Die in Plain Sight, Running Scared, and Moving Target, as well as four books featuring the Donovan family: Amber Beach, Jade Island, Pearl Cove, and Midnight in Ruby Bayou. Lowell has more than thirty million books in print. She lives in Arizona and Seattle, Washington, with her husband, with whom she writes mystery novels under a pseudonym.

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Las aclamadas novelas de suspenso de la autora Elizabeth Lowell incluyen varios bestsellers en la New York Times. Lowell ha vendido mÁs de treinta millones de ejemplares. Vive con su esposo en Seattle, Washington y Sedona, Arizona, con quien escribe novelas de misterio bajo un seudÓnimo.

From AudioFile

Kayla Shaw is happy and secure as a private banker until she realizes her boss, Andre Bertone, has used her to launder millions of dollars. Rand McCree has been hunting Bertone ever since the ruthless Russian brutally murdered his twin brother. When Kayla and Rand meet, they join forces to bring down the murderer, with the help of St. Kilda Counsulting, a private rogue operation. The story has a slew of agents, evildoers, and others, as well as a rash of emotions. Thankfully, Carol Monda moves easily up and down the roller coaster of feelings, maximizing the charged dialogue between Kayla and Rand and carefully portraying Kaylas growth from a worried woman to one who fears little and dares much. S.W. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: HarperLuxe (June 19, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061259306
• ISBN-13: 978-0061259302
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,624,014 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

NEW YORK TIMES Bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell has numerous historical and contemporary novels in print, including her four-book series of suspense novels featuring the unforgettable Donovan family--AMBER BEACH, JADE ISLAND, PEARL COVE and MIDNIGHT IN RUBY BAYOU. Ms. Lowell's current release, DEATH ECHO, is Book 5 in her St. Kilda Consulting series and features twin yachts, international gangsters, and plenty of romantic-suspense. There are more than thirty million Elizabeth Lowell books currently in print. Ms. Lowell lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Adventure!, August 10, 2007

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Sheri Fogarty (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Innocent as Sin: A Novel (Hardcover)

Innocent as Sin is a terrific, can't put it down, story.

Kayla Shaw is a bright, world traveled free spirit who's finally settled down to work at a bank and ends up in the world of private banking, personally taking care of a few very wealthy clients.

Rand McCree is an artist and former agent trying to recover from a life changing incident.

One of Kayla's clients, a REAL bad guy, ends up bringing them together and sending them on the run.

I don't want to give any details away but, as usual, Elizabeth Lowell has written a wonderful romantic suspense. I love how she gives great detail about her characters and their lives and I find myself always learning about something new in her books (Like all the info about the gem industry in her great Amber Cove series)

I couldn't put it down...dinner was late tonight...LOL...and I loved every minute of it!

Elizabeth Lowell has done it again!

19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Time to give up on Lowell?, July 4, 2007

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Shannon In Cali "Book Addict" (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Innocent as Sin: A Novel (Hardcover)

Like Lowell's last release, The Wrong Hostage, this book has an up-to-the-minute political issue as it's focus; this time, international gun runners and their exploitation of Africa. At least this time, the hero and heroine aren't nearly as annoying, although their deep feelings for each other are built on almost nothing. We learn little about who the hero is, other than that he's upset about the death of his brother, and he paints. He and the heroine share one night of passion (which lasts all of two pages), and then suddenly are willing to risk their lives for each other. After that, the plot takes over, and the remainder of the book is spent trying to straighten out the mess of international intrigue that's been created, with no further attention given to developing the characters.

Some authors are fantastic at weaving current political storylines into a romance - see Suzanne Brockmann - but Lowell isn't one of them. Her heavy-handed attempts at a "message" derail the romance, instead of using the romance to build the plot, and vice versa. If she wants to head that way, her publisher should reclassify her titles as "fiction" instead of "romance" when promoting them, and have bookstores shelve them accordingly.

For those like myself who felt The Wrong Hostage was the worst Lowell ever, guess what - the main characters are back, big time, in this novel. They continue to be idiots - what kind of man would not only take his teenage son along as his cover on an op where he knows there will be an assasination attempt, but then expose himself and his son to the enemy in order to gloat over a capture? What kind of fictional heroes are going to sit around waiting on a court order while millions of lives hang in the balance? Only those in St. Kilda Consulting.

I'm not giving up on Lowell completely yet - somewhere in there is the woman who brought us the Donovans, and the "Only" series. However, she's definitely become a "get it at the library" author, rather than a "buy it the minute it's released" author.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars St. Kilda Rides Again, July 1, 2008

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A. Roberts "Avid Reader" (Wyoming) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Innocent as Sin: A Novel (Hardcover)

I will have to say I liked this more than The Wrong Hostage. I really just found Grace's character terribly annoying. However she and Joe are now married and in this book she is much more likable. Their son Lane appears off and on in it also and he is just a cool kid. That said this book kept my interest though Kayla's character was a little far fetched at times. I haven't read a lot of EL books but the ones I have the heroine suddenly becomes this alpha person taking on the bad guys and hello even taking the head villan out. Okay maybe that's EL's formula. Once in awhile that's okay but I find it a bit unbeliveable every time. I liked most of the characters, even the bad guys and when I say I liked them, it's meant that they lived up to their character protrayal. We can't list this with great literature but just for a few hours read it does what it's supposed to do; entertain. It's not the kind of book I will read again but it was an okay read and will probably read the next St Kilda book to see if our characters we've become acquainted with show up in it. I will say that EL must have a very qualified research department to come up with the correct banking procedures and even the information she would need to write about arms trade.