"Excellent erotic thriller!"

All I can say is WOW! I was simply glued to this book. Julie Kenner knows how to write an excellent erotic thriller for sure!

Jack Parker, a detective in the sex crimes division, needs some professional help. They have a guy breaking into women's homes and leaving erotic post cards or little erotic notes. No one sees him enter or exit.

Veronica (Ronnie) Parker owns Archer's Rare Books and Manuscripts and is an expert in erotica. Her bookstore was broken into and the police don't seem to care. She marches into the police station and is mistaken for the expert Jack Parker is looking for. When he asks her pointed questions, it makes her furious and she storms out. When Jack realizes his mistake, he still thinks that she can help him.

Jack contacts Ronnie and she invites him to the erotica seminar that she holds in her bookstore. He jokingly tells her that he wants private lessons but the attraction between them just sizzles. Ronnie helps Jack with identifying the erotic post cards and what books the passages come from. Then the stakes suddenly get higher when the perpetrator kills his next victim. Can Jack and Ronnie figure this out before this madman kills someone else?

I am a huge fan of Julie's books and this one was different from anything she's ever written before. I would have never guessed the villain in a million years. It was a big surprise and a shock when the villain was revealed. That to me is the basis for a superb romantic suspense. I can't negate the sexual tension and the erotic nature of the book as well. Julie had me squirming in my seat more than once during this titillating book! All in all it had the necessary ingredients for a one (albeit hot) sitting read.

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted March 30, 2003

Detective Jack Parker needs an education--a sensual education. Someone is stalking women and they're doing it with a literary flair. Jack has to figure things out before somebody gets hurt. But he needs help. And he finds that--and more-- in bookstore owner Veronica Archer.

Summary

Detective Jack Parker needs an education--a sensual education. Someone is stalking women and they're doing it with a literary flair. Jack has to figure things out before somebody gets hurt. But he needs help. And he finds that-and more-- in bookstore owner Veronica Archer.

An expert in historical amorous works, Ronnie is dying to know if reality can be as stimulating as fiction. So, when Jack shows up at the shop, she decides to make him a scandalous proposition. She'll help him decipher the clues, if he'll satisfy her wildest, most secret desires.

Only the closer they get, the closer to home the clues become. Leaving Jack to decide if Ronnie is just a very skilled scholar--or an even more dangerous decoy.