Ice Blue: Lord & Lady Hetheridge

"Nwver again" according to BMW. I'm embarrassed to say I downloaded the whole series, but haven't the stomach to continue. The writing is amateurish (stereotyped characters and INcredible plots) and self-indulgent (The hero is godlike; the heroine raises her standing against all odds). The slapdash series is the product of co-authors more intent on rushing a mushy series to market than caring about quality. Hopefully there are reader. More Contemporary Romance than Mystery I was excited to have a recommendation for a nice British cozy with just a touch of romance. I was wary about the nearly thirty-year age difference between the main characters and my wariness was proved correct. Instead of a mystery to sink into, Ice Blue reads like a typical romance novel with the much older, wealth aristocrat male and the younger, commoner female. This plotline is similar to historic. Bought the whole series! JKom Reviewers are polarized about this series, for sure. If you are an Inspector Lynley fan you will probably NOT like this storyline. But there is a grim reality about the Lynley stories that I personally find rather depressing. I like tough reality mysteries as much as anyone - I'm a lifelong fan of the J.D. Robb "In Death" series, and you can't get much more realistically bloody than that.The Hetheridge

But then he meets Detective Sergeant Kate Wakefield - beautiful, willful, and nearly half his age. Anthony Hetheridge, ninth baron of Wellegrave, chief superintendent for New Scotland Yard, never married - no children, no pets, no hobbies, and not even an interesting vice - will turn 60 in three weeks. When Hetheridge saves the outspoken, impetuous young detective from getting the sack, siding with her against Scotland Yard's powerful male hierarchy, his cold, elegantly balanced world spins out of control. With the exception of his chosen career, too sordid for his blue-blooded family to condone, his life has been safe and predictable. Summoned to London's fashionable Belgravia to investigate the brutal murder of a financier, Hetheridge must catch the killer while coping with his growing attraction to Kate, the reappearance of an old flame, and the secret that emerges from his own past. Fall in love with Ice Blue, book one in the New York Times best-selling Lord & Lady Hetherid