Smoke in Mirrors
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (899 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1441866981 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 514 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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While investigating the connection between Meredith's death and two other suspicious deaths, Leonora romances Thomas with the help of her matchmaking grandmother and a disgruntled advice columnist and pairs Deke with his sexy yoga instructor. But when Thomas Walker, a victim of Meredith's most recent scam, confronts Leonora, demanding that she help him find the $1.5 million that Meredith filched from the Bethany Walker memorial fund and intimating that Meredith may have been murdered, Leonora drops her reference desk position in California to do some amateur sleuthing in Wing Cove, Wash. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. With the help of Thomas's brain
She'll hand over the money - if he helps her figure out what's happening. Eager to prove him wrong, Leonora sets out to collect the cash and hand it over. Now it seems Meredith's last scam - embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund - is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. One is a book about Mirror House - a mansion filled with antique mirrors, where Meredith engineered her final deception. A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast - and died young. An email just arrived in which Meredith - in fear for her life - explains that the money is waiting for Leonora in an offshore account and a safe-deposit key is on the way. Meredith had described Walker as "a man you can trust." But in a funhouse-mirror world of illusion and distortion, Leonora may be out of her league.. She's already been accused of being in on the theft by Thomas Walker - who, it seems, was a victim of Meredith's knack for both scams and seductions. Now Leonora has an offer for Thomas Walker. Leonora wants nothing to do with the tainted money. But she discovers two other items in the safe-deposit box. The other is a set of newspaper stories about a thirty
"fun, but not her best" according to Deborah MacGillivray. Don't get me wrong, I adore JAK. She is one of the few writers I will buy in hardbackbut I am beginning to rethink this. Smoke and Mirrors was fun if you are a JAK fan, if notyou might be sorely disappointed in the hardback price and paperback read.She is a sharp as ever in technique and style, she has polished JAK trademark of wilful ladies and stubborn men to a hard gloss. Maybe too much polishing and too hard of a gloss?? She lacks the snap and fire of her earlier works, going the same as many of the Romance Writers ( Linda Howard, Nora Roberts, Elizabeth Lowell) are - once they . Five Stars this is a wonderful book and would buy more like it. Five Stars Peggy Palmer Good read, I really enjoyed Ranch, he seems like a very good dog.