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Solomon hits the ground running with this gripping romantic thriller, pitting an obsessed artist against an even more obsessed fan. Still haunted by the 20-year-old murder of her famous fashion model mother, young photographer Gillian Gray is exhibiting a series of controversial self-portraits that show her posed in various grisly deathscapes. Giving her instant celebrity, the photos have also made her the target of conservative community groups, particularly in her hometown of Nashville. To keep her safe while she's home, Gillian's wealthy family contracts a bodyguard, staid ex-cop Ray Pierce. He realizes he may have his work cut out for him when Gillian kicks off her exhibit by challenging her mother's killer, via a crowd of reporters, to "come and get me." Indeed, it isn't long before someone begins sending out a photographic series of his own, recreating Gillian's images using the genuine article—dead women. Solomon's characters are convincing and compelling, especially Gillian, who makes an engaging heroine: smart, willful and profoundly damaged. Solomon's plot is good, suspenseful fun, but her ending is disappointingly off-target. (Mar.)
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Raised in luxury, Gillian is shaped by tragedy. Her mother, a model, was murdered when Gillian was seven, and her wealthy grandparents raised her. Gillian has made a name for herself as an artist by creating gruesome photographs of herself as a murder victim. She is trying to attract her mother's killer, and now, in her hometown of Nashville, her wish may come true as an exhibit of her artwork has attracted protests and a copycat killer who is reenacting her portraits. Ray Pearce has the unenviable task of trying to protect her. He is a flawed hero who has failed both to save his marriage and anyone dear to him. Yet he willingly becomes Gillian's bodyguard and confronts her death wish, hoping to give her something to live for. Solomon's psychologically rich romantic thriller balances grisly imagery with tender moments and is entertaining, through and through. Patty Engelmann
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Warner Forever; hardcover edition (March 1, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 044661632X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0446616324
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #724,332 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Miss Gray, Gillian Gray, New York, Holland Gray, Kenny Post, Miss Gillian, Ray Pearce, Matthew Dobie, Chip Gray, Art House, Detective Burke, Genevra Gray, Aubrey Banks, Belle Meade, Benton James, Harley Samuels, Will Davenport, Jimmy Burke, Carleco Security, Dawn Farrell, Gray Center, Larry King, Maddie Crane, Ned Mills, Ruth Gellico
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Emotional drama with a suspense overlay leads to a great read, March 6, 2007
To say that I was impressed by this book is an understatement. You always know, as a reader, that a book is good when at the close the book, you immediately get the yen to go to the bookstore and find more on the author's work. Which is what happened to me and I blogged about that on Sunday. In fact, while I am generally opposed to epilogues, I thought this one could have used one. Or more rightly, I wished I could have read more about the couple. I guess there is something to be said for always wanting to leave your fans wanting more.

While this story is a romance and it is a suspense, it is about something more. It's about facing your demons, even if that demon is you. It's about moving on when your entire life is being controlled by the past. It's about two people, imperfect and incomplete going through life but not really living it, finding understanding in each other.

Gillian Gray is a famous photographer whose work portrays grisly death scenes. She is known as the Death Diva and is hated and reviled as much as she is feted and revered. Gillian's work was inspired by a childhood trauma which involved finding her beautiful mother's dead body, mutilated by a killer. Part of Gillian believes that her work will flush out the never found killer. She wants to bait the murdered into coming after her, for only then will she ever have peace. Gillian returns to Nashville, her hometown, for a showing of her work at a new museum sponsored by her grandparents. While there, someone begins to re-enact Gillian's "Dead Shots." This increases Gillian's guilt and ire exponentially and she begins to do more and more to egg the killer into finding her.

Ray Pearce is a former detective who offers security services to high end clients. He is paid well, but his soul misses the work he did on the force. Like Gillian, Ray can't quite let go of the past. He has no family and his ex-wife's family became his own. He takes care of his ex-father-in-law; misses the comradery of his ex-brother-in-law; longs for the feelings of being married.

Ray is hired to handle the museum detail for Gillian's show. When Gillian is attacked, however, Ray is hired to continue to protect her against both Ray and Gillian's desire. Gillian's desire to foment the murderer conflicts directly against Ray's desire to protect her person. This conflict leads to several heated arguments and one very heated physical confrontation.

The main problem I had with the book is that the attempts to make the reader believe certain people are the killers were, um, weak. There was one scene featuring the killer's POV which I thought was unnecessary and didn't fit the flow of the overall story. However, the last few chapters I read with my heart in my throat. B+
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dead Shot, August 13, 2007
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In her pictures, she's been murdered. Gillian Gray is trying to draw out her mother's killer with her macabre photos. So far, she has only drawn the attention of the police and a security team. Ray Pierce is her bodyguard and very intent on keeping her alive, but Gillian is reckless and doesn't follow the rules, except the ones she has put in place for herself. Soon, bodies are being found...replicating her work. After Gillian tosses Ray aside, again, and the killer makes his move, will their tumultuous pasts keep them apart or will Ray make it back in time to save her?

Annie Solomon's books always draw me in and keep me glued to the pages and Dead Shot is no exception. Gillian is tormented by her past and is fearful of her future. Ray is haunted by his past and his future is uncertain. Together Gillian and Ray make an intense and often times volatile pair. Dead Shot kept me completely absorbed and on the edge of my seat waiting for what would come next.

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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars I have never sympathized with a serial killer more..., April 7, 2007
The heroine, Gillian, is an obnoxious, self obsessed rich girl who does her best to endanger and infuriate everyone around her, while being lauded and hated for her "art" - faux crime scene photos of a particularly gory kind. Our hero is a mildly likeable ex-cop body guard who can't let go of his ex-wife and her family, but nevertheless masochistically keeps returning to help out Gillian, as she stupidly runs headlong into danger, without any semblance of rational thought. Even scaring her frail grandmother into two near heart attacks doesn't elicit an apology or moment of self-examination from our overprivileged bubble head of a heroine. The only pain, feelings, or goals that matter are her own, even though they show no evidence of depth or intelligence.

The serial killer was a cardboard cut out, given no motivation whatsoever for his acts. He was the most sympathetic character of them all, and by the time I was a third of the way through the book I was rooting for him, but alas, he did not prevail.
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