Patricia S. (patsto) reviewed on 10/22/2005 + 33 more book reviews

5 stars - Great destinies are never for the faint-hearted in Brenda Joyce's romantic

thrillers, and never has that been more true than in The Chase, the tale of a 50-year-old

horror and its shocking legacy for an innocent woman. Busy, beautiful Claire Hayden, wife of

a prominent San Francisco attorney, heiress to a tidy fortune, and fundraiser for numerous

pet causes, watches her superficially secure life unravel during her husband's 40th-birthday

party. Not only does Claire decide in the midst of festivities that she wants a divorce, but

she discovers her preoccupied spouse gruesomely murdered, her assets evaporated, and a

handsome stranger igniting her repressed sexual passion.
Faced with dark, new challenges, Claire toughens up in the gales of a multigenerational

mystery, including the nightmarish possibility that her own father has been an assassin

since the 1940s. Crucial to the story is Claire's ticklish crime-solving partnership with

sexy Nazi-hunter Ian Marshall; unfortunately, their love-hate, bicker-flirt relationship

quickly becomes monotonous. Far better is the tragic, evocative subplot concerning the

marriage of a poor, orthodox Jew and a Christian aristocrat in pre-World War II Britain. In

The Chase, the past always lurks, like a killer biding his time, behind the enigmas of one's

life.

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