Smoke in Mirrors

Once a college librarian herself, Krentz (Dawn in Eclipse Bay; Slightly Shady) ably depicts the competitive atmosphere of the academic arena, but this awkward pairing of dark melodrama and frothy romance fails to impress. From Publishers Weekly Sparks fly between a sexually repressed college librarian and a handyman venture capitalist while they attempt to hunt down a killer who possesses the ability to make murder look like suicide in this tepid romantic thriller from veteran author Krentz (aka Amanda Quick, Stephanie James, Jayne Castle). The news of Meredith Spooner's death comes as no surprise to her half-sister, Leonora Hutton; after all,

One is a book about Mirror House - a mansion filled with antique mirrors, where Meredith engineered her final deception. Leonora wants nothing to do with the tainted money. Now Leonora has an offer for Thomas Walker. She'll hand over the money - if he helps her figure out what's happening. Now it seems Meredith's last scam - embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund - is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. The other is a set of newspaper stories about a thirty-year-old murder that occurred there - unsolved to this day. Eager to prove him wrong, Leonora sets out to collect the cash and hand it over. An email just arrived in which Meredith - in fear for her life - explains that the money is waiting for Leonora in an offshore account and a safe-deposit key is on the way. Meredith had described Walker as "a man you can trust." But in a funhouse-mirror world of illusion and distortion, Leonora may be out of her league.. A con artist and seduc

"fun, but not her best" according to Deborah MacGillivray. Don't get me wrong, I adore JAK. She is one of the few writers I will buy in hardbackbut I am beginning to rethink this. Smoke and Mirrors was fun if you are a JAK fan, if notyou might be sorely disappointed in the hardback price and paperback read.She is a sharp as ever in technique and style, she has polished JAK trademark of wilful ladies and stubborn men to a hard gloss. Maybe too much polishing and too hard of a gloss?? She lacks the snap and fire of her e. Five Stars this is a wonderful book and would buy more like it. Five Stars Good read, I really enjoyed Ranch, he seems like a very good dog.