Mommy Said Goodbye (Harlequin Superromance No. 1197) [Mass Market Paperback]

Janice Kay Johnson (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (April 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373711972
• ISBN-13: 978-0373711970
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,631,364 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Janice Kay Johnson is the author of sixty-plus books for children and adults. Her first four published romance novels were coauthored with her mother Norma Tadlock Johnson, also a writer who has since published mysteries and children's books on her own. These were "sweet" romance novels, the author hastens to add; she isn't sure they'd have felt comfortable coauthoring passionate love scenes!

Janice graduated from Whitman College with a B.A. in history and then received a master's degree in library science from the University of Washington. She was a branch librarian for a public library system until she began selling her own writing.

She has written six novels for young adults and one picture book for the read-aloud crowd. ROSAMUND was the outgrowth of all those hours spent reading to her own daughters, and of her passion for growing old roses. Two more of her favorite books were historical novels WINTER OF THE RAVEN and THE ISLAND SNATCHERS which she wrote for Tor/Forge. The research was pure indulgence for someone who set out intending to be a historian!

Janice is divorced and has raised her two daughters in a small, rural town north of Seattle, Washington. She's an active volunteer and board member for Purrfect Pals, a no-kill cat shelter, and foster kittens often enliven a household that already includes a few more cats than she wants to admit to!

Janice loves writing books about both love and family -- about the way generations connect and the power our earliest experiences have on us throughout life.

In addition to her real name, she has also written under several pseudonyms through the years, including Janice Stevens, Janice Bartlett, Kay Bartlett and Kay Kirby.

Her Superromance novels are frequent finalists for Romance Writers of America RITA awards, and she won the 2008 RITA for Best Contemporary Series Romance for SNOWBOUND.

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5.0 out of 5 stars strong police procedural romance, April 13, 2004

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This review is from: Mommy Said Goodbye (Harlequin Superromance No. 1197) (Mass Market Paperback)

In Klickitat, Julie Lofgren was a devoted mother to her two preadolescent children and president of the local Parent-Teacher Organization. Then she vanished. Everyone in town believes her husband Craig killed Julie, but no evidence surfaced over the next eighteen months since she disappeared and their son Brett insisted his "MOMMY SAID GOODBYE".

Brett has Julie's friend Robin McKinnon as his teacher this year. Robin surprisingly is perhaps the only person in town who believes what the two Lofgen males have to say about Julie. As Robin and Craig become reacquainted with one another, they fall in love. However, he still carries a cloud over his head and both have children to nurture. Police Officer Anne Caldwell tries a different investigative path that if fruitful will hurt the image of her deceased father (the former cop on this case). Craig has new hopes that he will be vindicated and can go on with his life with perhaps Robin and her son joining his and his two children in one happy family but he also realizes that Anne's father is the one who believed he committed homicide.

Fans of police procedural romance will want to read the exciting MOMMY SAID GOODBYE. The story line predominantly concentrates on Craig and his two children coping with being either pitiful cretins or vile pariahs. Robin is a refreshing individual unable to accept that this kind hearted father of two could kill his wife. The investigation by Ann is handled deftly so as to augment the prime tale with suspense and keep readers wondering what happened to Julie.

Harriet Klausner