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LONG HOT NIGHTS - Candice Poarch Kensington Dafina/Fiction May 2008 |
SYNOPSIS: After a night of passion, a detective and a businessman find themselves trying to solve a double murder before the killer strikes again
MAINSTREAM FICTION |4| Dianthia Lemons
REVIEW: Alyssa Claxton is a detective on Paradise Island. She is single, beautiful and exceptional at her job. She loves riding her motorcycle and is a member of the all-female, Hampton Roads' High Tides Motorcycle Club. While on a weekend camping trip she keeps trying to deny her attraction to Jordan Ellis and tries to fend off his seduction but she turns out to be the seductress for a night. Jordan Ellis is tall, dark, successful and handsome. He knows that he is attracted to Alyssa and wants nothing more than to make her his own. He goes to her tent to talk and finds himself pulled into her passion. Alyssa decides to try Jordan on for size initially just to shut-up the town hoochie, Rancine. Just when it seems that things are going well for Alyssa and Jordan, a double murder on the Island occurs. To make matter's worse, one of the victim's is Alyssa's cousin's husband. Alyssa's best friend Reginald and her cousin Vanetta are the prime suspects in the double murder. One thing Alyssa doesn't suspect is that the murderer is fixated on another person and that person is Alyssa. Jordan and Alyssa work together to not only to unravel the secrets and clues in finding a killer, they solve another puzzle in their quest and find out their love for each other is the real thing.
The setting of the book on a small island was good and how the family arrived there initially. There could have been more information about Abiola included in the Prologue to give a little more insight into the family dynamics.
Ms. Poarch did a good job with the story line in general and most of the characters were developed and blended well. The murderer who is Stanley, needed to be more of a character instead of just a name and Patience's husband. His character needed more developement to allow the reader to know his background. How or what made him do what he did. Overall, the book was interesting and I am looking forward to reading more from Candace.
reviewer@romanceincolor.com | 30th May 2008