Life Line (Intrigue) [Import] [Paperback]

R. York (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Silhouette Books (August 26, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373592965
• ISBN-13: 978-0373592968
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

"[Rebecca York's] books. . . deliver what they promise: excitement, mystery, romance. . ."
- Michael Dirda, Washington Post

An award-winning, best-selling novelist, Ruth Glick is the author of over 100 books. Writing as Rebecca York, she has authored or co-authored over 50 romantic suspense novels. The first of her Berkley Sensation paranormal romantic suspense novels, KILLING MOON, was published in June 2003; EDGE OF THE MOON followed in August 2003 and WITCHING MOON in October 2003. KILLING MOON and EDGE OF THE MOON were launch books for the Berkley Sensation imprint.

She writes the popular 43 Light Street series for Harlequin Intrigue. Over 30 Light Street Intrigues have been published. NOWHERE MAN was called "one of the most heart-wrenching, moving works of romantic suspense in several years," by reviewer Harriet Klausner.

Ruth's many awards include two Rita finalist books. She has two Career Achievement awards from Romantic Times: for Series Romantic Suspense and Series Romantic Mystery. NOWHERE MAN was the Romantic Times Best Intrigue of 1998, and the book has been selected as one of their Reviewers' "all-time favorite 400 romances." In addition, she received the 1998 Affaire de Coeur's Critics Choice Award for Best Contemporary Novel, also for NOWHERE MAN. Ruth's book, KILLING MOON won the 2003 New Jersey Romance Writers Golden Leaf Award for best Paranormal. AMANDA'S CHILD won the 2001 Golden Leaf Award for Long Contemporary and was nominated for Best Intrigue of 2000 by Romantic Times. "Tyler" in BAYOU BLOOD BROTHERS won the 2001 Golden Leaf Award for best Novella. In 2007 THE SECRET NIGHT received the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for best Harlequin Intrigue. Ruth's cookbook, 100% PLEASURE, was picked by USA Today as one of the 12 best cookbooks of 1994; her FABULOUS LO-CARB CUISINE was a finalist for the MidAtlantic Publishers Association's Excellence in Independent Publishing Award.

Several of Ruth's Moon books (WITCHING MOON, SHADOW OF THE MOON, and NEW MOON) have been on the USA Today best-seller list.

Ruth and her husband travel frequently to research settings for novels and taste new dishes for cookbooks. Her many unique experiences are apt to end up in her books--like the time she encountered a coral snake in the Guatemalan jungle or took a flight in a hot air balloon.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First in 43 Light Street series, March 3, 2006

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Susan Bischoff - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life Line (Harlequin Intrigue) (Paperback)

In the early morning, psychologist Abby Franklin is awakened by an hysterical telephone call from a former patient. Fearing for the woman's health, unable to contact her from the information in her records, Abby contacts one of the family members in the woman's file. Her brother, Derrick Claiborne, reveals that his sister Sharon made the call from a hospital where she has been confined for a few weeks due to a psychotic break following a problem with drugs. Abby is shocked and disturbed by this information, but as there is nothing she can do, she tries to assure herself that Sharon is receiving the care she needs and to put it out of her head. She is shocked to read, a few weeks later, of Sharon's suicide.

Also shocked is Sharon's other brother, Steve Claiborne, who hasn't seen his sister in the last few years. He puts his gun-running and smuggling in the Far East on hold to fly back to the States for the funeral and answers.

Steve and Abby get off to a rocky start when he accosts her at the funeral, accusing her of malpractice, and later when he steals her file on and session tapes with his sister. He discovers that Abby has a lot of information about him that he'd rather she didn't, and he's about as uncomfortable with that as with the knowledge he was wrong about her. Despite their reservations about each other, they share the same goal of finding out the circumstances leading to Sharon's death.

While the story in itself is pretty straight-forward and even somewhat predictable, there was something about the characters... The book gets 5 stars for producing an emotional throat-tightening response in this jaded reader-more than once.

This is York's [pseudonym] first novel for Intrigue, and the beginning of the very long-running 43 Light Street series. I've read and enjoyed a few of the later books in this series and wanted to start over from the beginning. 43 Light Street is the address of the building which houses Abby's office. Other characters at the same address include a crusty superintendent with a gambling problem, a soft-hearted lawyer with a troubled marriage to an ambitious doctor, and a spunky female PI who plays a big role in helping uncover the secrets surrounding Sharon's death. I'm so looking forward to more that I've hunted down and ordered most of the books in the series that I don't have. I'm now looking forward to #155 Shattered Vows, ISBN 0-373-22155-X.

Solid author. Good read. Recommended.