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4.0 out of 5 stars
A Fast Paced Romantic Suspense!!!, August 23, 2005
Ms. Graham has again used Florida for the setting of her latest romantic suspense. Through her descpitive writing you will feel as if you are standing right along side with the characters of the book.
Lorena has come to the Everglades to find out who killed her father. She gets a job at an alligator farm. She has no idea that she has just set up home in a vipers nest of secrets and danger. She also doesn't realize that she is in more danger that she could ever imagine. Especially when bodies starts piling up among the locals. Who is killing them and why? Could it have anything to do with her fathers research?
Jesse Crane is a cop who has returned to his Everglades home after the murder of his wife. Here he does what he can to protect the people that make the dangerous but beautiful Everglades home. So when he meets the beautiful but sassy Lorena for the first time, sparks fly. When he finds out that she is hiding a secret the more he wants to get to know her and protect her. Will he be able to find out what is going on before a rogue gator, and a murdered that walks upright manages to silence Lorena before he can uncover her secret?
This was a very good read. Ms. Graham has managed to include a lot into a short read that will enthrall as well as entertain fans of romantic suspense. The interaction between Jesse and Lorena is spicy and entertaining. This is one author that I highly recommend.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
More gene manipulation, January 12, 2006
Lorena Fortier is a lawyer who is going under cover to find out who killed her father. Nobody believes he was murdered, but she has found an e-mail among his effects that makes her believe someone killed him for his research. Now she is acting as an RN at a crocodile farm.
Jesse Crane is half Seminole and the law in his part of the Everglades. I found he liked himself alittle to much. The descriptions of his macho virile self were abit over the top. He struck me as abit of a jerk.
Both characters were slightly larger than life. And certainly had very good self images. A little more modesty would have been nice.Suddenly several deaths occur. Maybe drug related or not. One couple is killed at their home at night and Jesse knows they are upstanding people.
Finally, both are convinced that enhanced reptiles are loose in the glades and have killed man. What about the people who have been shot? Is someone killing people to hide the evidence?
Fairly good suspense, so-so romance, but it is a short book. Not to bad a read at all.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
HIGHLY ENTERTAINING MYSTERY, November 13, 2006
This would be a great follow-up to Lake Placid.
We get to make a trek to the Everglades [have only been able to picture it after some scenes from CSI:Miami]where we get to meet the Native American Seminoles and Miccosukee Indian police in the person of Jesse Crane, who's wife was killed.
Now you want to talk about a jerk, Lorena Fortier[blonde bombshell] sure qulifies. Granted she was on a mission but had not given enough thought to who she was putting in jeapordy.
The great scene of the black eyed Alligator and Billy Ray Hare kind of makes your hair stand on end.
When Lorena finally gets to Harry's Alligator Farm and Museum she meets her co-workers Dr. Michael Preston [oh to get into his office and notes] - Harry, the owner, Jack Pine, a tall, well-muscled Seminole and Hugh Humphrey, a wiry blond handler[of the gators] from Australia -- and a tall, white haired man talking to them, Dr. Thiessen, a local vet and his helper, John Smith, extraordinarilly big. And there was Sally Dickerson, the head cashier and bookkeeper, she was always making up to Jesse.
With two friends of Jesse's shot to death, execution style and having to look for Billy Ray, the Miami-Dade homicide detective, Lars Garcia was in charge of the shooting case and someone Jesse had gone to college with, things were heating up.
Suddenly the incidents were looking suspicious - what did Lorena know and what was she looking for? Who was responsible for her father's death?
But first she had to find evidence that he was murdered. Who would believe her?
Jesse and Lars were trying to pull together the evidence that would make sense. Where did these giant Alligators come from? Lorena almost met one face to face.
Who could have enough money to make the evidence disappear? Excellentlly told tale - another female who makes nothing of bed hoping. Love? yeah, right.
Still a great read once you get past the "romance"?
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