"Kill and Tell"

Linda Howard's "Kill and Tell" is a mystery novel that kept me reading throughout one day to finish it. Although it's billed as a "romantic suspense" novel, I enjoyed the murder mystery, the thrill of the chase, the twists and turns of the case plus the hint of romance much more than the more explicit sex scenes.

Karen Whitlaw receives a package from her father (who has been absent from her life since she was a child) a few months after her mother's death. Still reeling from the loss of her mother and dealing with the changes that has brought to her life, Karen puts the package aside. When homicide detective, Marc Chastain, calls her from New Orleans to tell her that her father has been murdered, it sets them on a path that endangers both their lives as well as changing their futures.

Despite the explicit sex scenes (that I skimmed over to get back to what I considered the real meat of Howard's novel), I will look for another one of her suspense novels because her original stories are too good to miss.

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