Cold Midnight
Joyce LambRomantic suspense
Available from Berkley Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-425-23024-4
August 2009
| Kylie McKay was attacked by two men with a baseball bat when she was only seventeen. It ended her professional tennis career as it was just taking off. She's back home after escaping to Los Angeles for ten years. Someone doesn't want her in town. They don't want her building a tennis complex in Kendall Falls. She and those close to her are being threatened and hurt. Chase Manning, the man she jilted when she ran off to LA, has become a detective on the KFPD. Can he be objective in trying to solve the crimes committed? Or will the old flame that still simmers between them stand in his way?
Joyce Lamb builds an excellent suspense story that will leave you guessing to the very end. Kylie and Chase are believable as people who reacted to the losses they both felt after Kylie was attacked. Each will draw us in as realistic human beings who do the best they can even with flaws most of us can relate to. The book wouldn't feel as complete without the story within a story relating to Kylie's and her father's mutual obsession with making her a tennis star. Family dynamics are well written so that readers can feel a sense of having all the questions we ask ourselves while reading answered when the book ends. Jane and Quinn, Kylie's brother and sister, help build the suspense with secrets of their own. There are characters like T.J. whose love of tennis matches Kylie's. His story is one of sadness mixed with hope. Each of the people Ms. Lamb introduces us to is well constructed to enhance the story. This is one of those books that's hard to put down. The suspense just keeps building to a finale that will give the reader a sense of completion that isn't always present in books.
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Reviewer: Dee Dailey |
