Lovely style of writing, the story flowed along and kept up at a good pace. It was interesting in that the reader gets the story from 2 view points - not as in usual books the goodie and the badie but from each of the 2 detectives on the case. This made more (enjoyable) work for the reader to t...
Mary Catherine and Kitt are partners on the police force. So many people close to M.C. are being murdered. Kitt is having issues with her husband and is excited to try working things out with him on a vacation to Mexico. When people start dying around MC, Kitt decides to put her trip on hold. ...
This was a recommendation book off of Good Reads so I thought I try a new author that I have never heard about. After reading this well written mystery, I am going to read another book from Ms. Spindler. The characters in this book are well developed and there are so many subtle clues dropped t...
Spine tingling in places, this novel centres on a 25y old mystery of the disappearance of baby Dylan at a Sonoma, California winery. After his disappearance, his parents marriage dissolves and his mother runs away to San Francisco with her 5y old daughter, Alex from a previous relationship. Bring...
I have to say that what first captured my interest about this book was that it enabled me to catch up a bit with Stacy Killian, who first appeared, I believe, in SEE JANE DIE, and then had a story all of her own in KILLER TAKES ALL, in which readers met Spencer Malone, the lead detective in WATCH...
I thought this was a great read. Gripping and powerful. I enjoyed the combination of historical information regarding New Orleans and its culture, with the depth of characters and tangly webs embedded in various story lines (which did not overpower one another). A little bit of steamy romance, sc...
Twenty-three years ago Anna North survived a living nightmare. A madman kidnapped her, cut off her pinkie, then vanished. Today Anna lives in New Orleans, writing dark thrillers under another name. She finally feels safe. Suddenly Anna's quiet life takes a frightening turn. Letters start to arri...
Five years ago, three young victims were found murdered, posed like little angels. No witnesses, no evidence left behind. The Sleeping Angel Killer called his despicable acts 'the perfect crimes.' The case nearly destroyed homicide detective Kitt Lundgren's career because she let the killer get ...
Finished reading: April 14th 2014 (view spoiler)[Dean Run is in many ways just another of those crime thrillers that doesn't really stand out from the rest. A lot of cliches are used in describing both characters and the plot, which was kind of a turn off. But although I normally detest stories ...
Forbidden Fruit by Erica Spindler – 5 starsThis is the story of the Pierron women and their shadowy past, and the affect that past has on the lives of the ones who are still alive. Forbidden Fruit takes you into the world of sultry New Orleans, to the home of Lily Pierron, a legendary madam, like...
I liked this book. I really, really did. But I didn’t like Richard. At all. He’s selfish, insecure, egotistical, and prone to bouts of jealousy. He’s not exactly husband material, even though Kate has been married to him for the past ten years, in what I can only assume was wedded bliss, until he...
This book pleasantly surprised me. Going into it, I had no real expectations about whether this would be good or not and I ended up thoroughly enjoying it. It wasn’t that easy of a read but it flowed smoothly and the story developed naturally.I found this book in a box that my boyfriend’s mom was...
Hunter Powell knew that his days as a family man were behind him. Once Aimee Boudreaux had tried to convince him otherwise - but though she had brightened Hunter's nights, she couldn't make him love. For that, they would have needed a miracle. — Enter the miracle - in the form of the son Hunter n...
When Avery Chauvin returns to her Louisiana hometown after her father's suicide, she discovers clippings of a fifteen-year-old murder and learns about recent disappearances and murders that lead her to start an investigation.
Stacy Killian was exposed to the horrors of crime as a member of the Dallas police force. After moving to New Orleans to pursue a quieter life, a friend's murder plunges her back into the role that she fled. Doubting that Spencer Malone, an overconfident, rookie homicide detective, is up to the t...
They defied the odds and found red hot fame.Becky Lynn Lee was a nobody. Everybody told her so--the ladies who snubbed her at Opal's Cut 'n Curl, the boys who hurt her and used her, the family who didn't want her. But Becky Lynn had dreams. And when it came time to dream for real--or die a slow d...
Captain Patti O’Shay investigates a serial killer in post-Katrina New Orleans. His last known victim: her husband.Spindler avoids the clichéd lone wolf cop, instead introducing us to the Malone dynasty. O’Shay’s late husband was also a policeman, her nephew is her depute who himself is dating a f...
Rugged Jackson Reese had a heartful of scars to prove you shouldn't trust a society princess. So his troubled daughter's latest 'sitter' was worse than merely a thorn in his side - pampered, privileged Bentley Cunningham was the whole damn rose...complete with perfumed petals and a darkly rooted ...
Stephanie Rodriguez sat on her small front porch, a drink cradled in her hands, staring out at the pasture and the waning day. An idyllic scene: the three mares grazing, her chestnut, Molly, stopping every so often to whinny softly at her. The animal had picked up on her d...
Behind him the Mississippi River flowed peacefully, yet the levee facing it served as a stark reminder of its unpredictable and often-violent moods. Before him, a grove of magnolias stretched from the road to the house, lining the pathway that led to Ashland Plantation, creating a living canopy o...
Ellison Chapter 3 R.J. TULLY THOUGHT HE HAD THE EASY part of this assignment until he met Senator Ellie Delanor-Ramos. She had asked to meet him in the parking lot under Pensacola Beach’s famous beach ball water tower. Most of the spaces were empty. Still, he chose a corne...
Kat cried when she saw it. Black smoke swirling up to the sky, angry flames devouring Sara’s pretty little cottage. Stealing another piece of her past. The Liberty Volunteer Fire Department had arrived with the ladder and pumper trucks; their lights bounced crazily off the...
Alice Dougherty repeated, sucking in a sharp, surprised breath. “Are you sure?” The teenage girl sitting across the desk from her wiped at the tears on her cheeks and nodded. “I went to the doctor.” Alice eased against her chair back and crossed her legs, working to hide her dismay and disappoint...
Mind racing with what Sugar had told her, she shifted into Park and cut off the engine. She had three dead men. All batterers. All men who had slipped through the fingers of justice. All dead by different but bizarre twists of fate. All victims, in a strange way, of their own weaknesses. She revi...
She huddled in a corner, her three-hundred-dollar silk skirt bunched up around her thighs, her back pressed against the wall, remembering. She was fifteen again, hidden in the cramped closet of the empty house, peering through the inch-wide crack between the door and the jamb. Waiting. Heart thun...
Veronique took one last look at the hotel before stepping into the cab. She knew it, even if he didn't. What they'd shared had been so much more than passion. There'd been something permanent, something possessive about the way he'd looked at her and the way he'd touched her. Veronique leaned her...
Claire’s friend didn’t arrive. Not that first morning or the next. He tried the number Claire left and got an answering machine. Afraid to leave a message, he had hung up, a ball of uneasiness in the pit of his gut.Something had gone wrong.Luckily, the storm had lasted a full twenty-four hours an...