Title: Treacherous Beauties
Author: Cheryl B. Dale
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: March 26, 2012
Publisher: J&H Press
ASIN: B007P5461C
Annabelle Levee’s brother is dead and buried, with no reason to haunt her dreams and beg her to do...what? Maybe her visit to the treacherous gorge where Alan met his death can still his nagging spirit.
Incognito in the small town of Rahunta, she retraces Alan’s steps, glad his ghost is quiet for the first time in months. Then she meets the man who, some whisper, shot Alan in a jealous rage and pushed him into the gorge.
As Annabelle gets to know the influential Jason Forrester, the more his earthy masculinity attracts her and the more convinced she is that he’s no killer. Until she sees him lash out at his sister-in-law. Uncertainties return along with her dreams.
Despite Alan’s frantic pleas, Annabelle can’t reconcile the man she’s in love with to a cold-blooded killer. But if she’s wrong, when Jason discovers who she is and what she wants, she may end up like her brother. Dead, with her ghost begging someone to figure out what happened.
My rating:
Annabelle's dead brother haunts her dreams, pleading with her to help him, and the only way she knows how, is to go to where Alan died and try to find his killer...
The mystery was intriguing, the slightly paranormal angle satisfying without descending into the bizarre, the suspense intense...It would've made for a pretty awesome suspense/thriller if it weren't for:
- the premise itself—the heroine goes to the town where her brother was murdered determined to find his killer; she's not law enforcement, she's not a detective, she's just a widow posing as an accountant
- and the idiotic heroine—read above and add the fact every single decision she makes when she's there proves just what a naïve idiot she really is (you can't say you love someone while lying to them and believing them a murderer; you can't take the word of the only woman the hero dislikes as judge of his character while having proof of his amiability in his interactions with pretty much everybody else in town).
The fact it was written in the first person POV of the heroine didn't help matters at all, merely compounding her bad traits.
3 stars, bitchslappable heroine/hero, Cheryl B. Dale, contemporary, contemporary romance, harlequin/silhouette, paranormal, suspense/mystery/adventure/thriller
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