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The Man She Thought She Knew

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This was a fairly entertaining story with lots of plot twists and red herrings. The plotline was overly complicated with suspicion cast on pretty much everyone in the book at some point. The heroine is unfortunately a whiny, self-centered drama queen and her tough, practical best friend would seem to be the more appropriate main character! And it's easy to see what's important in the author/actress' personal life, what with all the brand-name dropping throughout the book. The action got underway in the first chapter of the book, which I always appreciate, and continued throughout the story. Good beach reading!

This is the third in the Callaway series and with each one they got better and better. This one is defintily the best.

Callaway "Cally" Wilde looks forward to exchanging I do with LAPD undercover Detective Evan Paley. However, she becomes upset when he hides a phone call from her. Still naked having come out of her shower, she hears gunshots downstairs. She investigates carrying Evan's gun only to find the corpse of a stranger in her kitchen and Evan missing. She notifies Evan's partner Curtis, who tells her nothing as to why her hunk has been abducted and $3 million seems quite a ransom price for a cop albeit even one she loves.

When she begins receiving clues by email and phone to Evan's whereabouts, Cally decides she must rescue her boyfriend. She follows the clues even as Curtis tells her to stay out of it and let him handle it. Unable to abide by his advice, Cally becomes befuddled when Evan's former girlfriend seems the center of the maelstrom.

As always the latest Cally escapade is LOADED with LETHAL fun as she personally tries to rescue her beloved partly out of guilt because of her thoughts about his secrecy just before he was kidnapped and partly because she cannot help herself. Getting actively involved is the norm for incautious courageous Cally. Shari Shattuck provides a lighthearted amateur sleuth frolic, as Cally takes on her lover, his police peers, thugs, corpses, and the city of Los Angeles in an effort to save THE MAN SHE THOUGHT SHE KNEW.

Harriet Klausner