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GREAT READ AND QUICK BOOK TO READ
I love anything Linda Howard writes even if the back cover doesn't sound like something I would normally read. She's one of the few authors that I will buy in hardback and she's on my keeper bookshelf for life.
This is a wonderful story that I keep reading over and over again.
This is a wonderful story that I keep reading over and over again.
It used to be that I tore through Linda Howard books like no one's business. I had friends tell me it was a "must read" and all I can do is wonder "why"? It was good--but definitley not a keeper. "Open Season" and "Dying to Please" will be lonely on my bookshelf once again.
Karen Whitlaw learns her father has been murdered. She has not seen him in many years and thinks he is just another bum who has deserted his family until her deceased mother receives a package from him. Very good story
After the recent death of her mother, Karen Whitlaw receives a strange package from her long absent father, and just files it away with the rest of her mother's personal effects. She is the unwitting recipient of her father's "Kill Book," which details the CIA-sanctioned hits he performed going all the way back to the Vietnam War. A phone call from a detective in New Orleans brings Karen to the big easy, to claim the body of her murdered father.
Detective Marc Chastain knows that there is something fishy about his latest murder case. It is a homeless man, but appears more like a professional hit. His investigation into the crime results in some inquires from the local feds.
Not really ready to understand her feelings about her estranged father, Marc figures Karen to be an ice queen, as she appears remote. At first kind of brisk with her, he soon is attracted to her. After a night of hot sex (his seduction on the balcony is one of the better Howard trysts), Karen flees back to the safety of her home in Ohio.
Then more accidents start to happen. She returns to New Orleans and to Marc, as she feels he is the only one she can trust, and the two join together to try to piece together her father's past and realizing that the murderer is after the package she has in storage.
This story also introduces John Medina, a shadowy CIA-operative who plays a minor but pivotal role (and later gets his own in All the Queen's Men), as Marc and Karen try to beat the clock to locate the piece of evidence that will help to solve the crime.
Detective Marc Chastain knows that there is something fishy about his latest murder case. It is a homeless man, but appears more like a professional hit. His investigation into the crime results in some inquires from the local feds.
Not really ready to understand her feelings about her estranged father, Marc figures Karen to be an ice queen, as she appears remote. At first kind of brisk with her, he soon is attracted to her. After a night of hot sex (his seduction on the balcony is one of the better Howard trysts), Karen flees back to the safety of her home in Ohio.
Then more accidents start to happen. She returns to New Orleans and to Marc, as she feels he is the only one she can trust, and the two join together to try to piece together her father's past and realizing that the murderer is after the package she has in storage.
This story also introduces John Medina, a shadowy CIA-operative who plays a minor but pivotal role (and later gets his own in All the Queen's Men), as Marc and Karen try to beat the clock to locate the piece of evidence that will help to solve the crime.
Amazon.com
Linda Howard's romantic suspense Kill and Tell supplies readers with plenty of thrills and chills. As a nurse, Karen Whitlaw has seen more than the average person, but even she isn't prepared to identify the body of the father she hasn't seen since she was 13. The local detective on the case, Marc Chastain, informs Karen that her father, who was homeless, has been murdered. Still grief stricken over the recent death of her mother, Karen isn't prepared to examine her feelings about her father and his absence from her life. She is willing to accept that he was the victim of street crime until her home is burglarized and she becomes the target for some frightening "accidents." Whoever killed her father is after her, and the only hope she has for discovering why must lie in the notebook that Karen's father mailed to her mother shortly before his death. --
Linda Howard's romantic suspense Kill and Tell supplies readers with plenty of thrills and chills. As a nurse, Karen Whitlaw has seen more than the average person, but even she isn't prepared to identify the body of the father she hasn't seen since she was 13. The local detective on the case, Marc Chastain, informs Karen that her father, who was homeless, has been murdered. Still grief stricken over the recent death of her mother, Karen isn't prepared to examine her feelings about her father and his absence from her life. She is willing to accept that he was the victim of street crime until her home is burglarized and she becomes the target for some frightening "accidents." Whoever killed her father is after her, and the only hope she has for discovering why must lie in the notebook that Karen's father mailed to her mother shortly before his death. --
Still reeling from her mother's recent death, Karen Whitlaw is stunned when she receives a package containing a mysterious black notebook from the father she has barely seen since he returned from the Vietnam War over 20 years ago. Unwilling to deal with her overwhelming emotions, Karen packs the notebook away, putting it---and her father---out of her mind, until she receives a shocking phone call. Her father has been murdered on the gritty streets of New Orleans. Homicide deyective Marc Chastain considers the murder nothing more than street violence against a homeless man, and Karen accepts his judgment---at first. But she changes her mind when her
home is burglarized and "accidents" begin to happen. All at once, she faces a chilling realization: whoever killed her father is now after her. Desperate for answers, Karen retrieves the only thing that links her to her father---the notebook he had sent months before.
Inside its worn pages, she makes an unsettling discovery: her father had been a sniper in Vietnam and the notebook contains a detailed account of each one of his kills.
Now running for her life, Karen entrusts the book and its secrets to Marc Chastain. Together they unravel a disturbing story of politics, power and murder---and face a killer who will stop at nothing to get his hands on the kill book.
home is burglarized and "accidents" begin to happen. All at once, she faces a chilling realization: whoever killed her father is now after her. Desperate for answers, Karen retrieves the only thing that links her to her father---the notebook he had sent months before.
Inside its worn pages, she makes an unsettling discovery: her father had been a sniper in Vietnam and the notebook contains a detailed account of each one of his kills.
Now running for her life, Karen entrusts the book and its secrets to Marc Chastain. Together they unravel a disturbing story of politics, power and murder---and face a killer who will stop at nothing to get his hands on the kill book.
