Hurricane Bay

✍ Scribed by Heather Graham

• Publisher: MIRA;Harlequin Enterprises
• Year: 2002;2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 203 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Dane Whitelaw knows something about Sheila Warren that no one else does.

Dane knows Sheila's dead. The private investigator found a photo under his door--a picture of Sheila, strangled with his tie and posed on the beach of his private island in the Florida keys. The crime appears to be the handiwork of a serial killer currently terrorizing the Miami area. Now Dane knows he is being set up to take the fall for the killings. He just doesn't know why.

When Kelsey Cunningham's best friend goes missing, she confronts the one person she thinks will have information--Dane, Sheila's former lover and a man from Kelsey's own past. Kelsey follows Sheila's tracks into a dangerous world of sex, violence and drugs, with Dane right behind her.

But the tentative trust between them shatters when Sheila's body is discovered--and Kelsey recognizes Dane's tie. Now Kelsey doesn't dare trust anyone. Especially a man she can no longer deny she has always loved.

Because here on Hurricane Bay, a devastating storm can hit without warning. And whether its a tempest of unbridled passion or the desperate fury of a killer, nothing--and no one--is safe.

From Publishers Weekly

A major sea change works wonders for romance stalwart Graham (Night of the Blackbird), yielding a suspenseful, sexy thriller set in the Florida Keys. Sheila Warren has gone missing; given her penchant for drugging and carousing, this surprises no one but her old friend Kelsey Cunningham. Kelsey, who has a romantic history with Sheila's old boyfriend and local PI Dane Whitelaw, confronts him when she learns he was the last to see her. Though Dane knows Sheila is dead the killer sent him a photo of the body with evidence that would frame him for the murder he keeps mum. Kelsey moves into the duplex Sheila shared with their friend Cindy. With the help of boatman Jorge Marti; Sheila's ex, Larry; and Dane (the only one who knows he's looking for a body), Kelsey tries to find her. The four fear that she is a victim of a serial killer known as the Necktie Strangler, but they also suspect that Kelsey's reprobate stepfather, Andy Latham, had a hand in her disappearance. Things get more complicated when Kelsey surmises that Dane is the killer; Kelsey and Cindy are attacked; Kelsey's ex, Nate, has a run-in with Andy; and Dane learns a dangerous secret of Jorge's. The latter leads to a confrontation with one of Sheila's playmates, a local drug smuggler. Though the prose often goes purple and the dialogue sags in spots, Graham builds jagged suspense that will keep readers guessing up to the final pages.

Review

"A suspenseful, sexy thriller . . . Graham builds jagged suspense that will keep readers guessing up to the final pages." -- Publishers Weekly

Library : Romance
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9781551666655