Murder List
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4.4 • 28 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Hotel heiress Regan Hamilton Madison is flirting with danger . . .
When a journalist friend asks Regan to help her investigate Dr Lawrence Shields, a shady self-help guru, she can't help but agree. Hoping to find some damning evidence, Regan attends a Shields seminar, where the doctor has his guests make a list of the people who have hurt or angered them over the years. Treating the exercise as a game, Regan plays along. The experience is all but forgotten – until the first person on Regan's list turns up dead.
Alec Buchanan is about to leave his job on the Chicago police force to return to his roots in Boston. He has only three weeks left, but before he goes, he's given one last assignment – guard Regan Hamilton Madison. Alec resolves to put in his three weeks and move on, but he soon discovers that when it comes to the gorgeous Regan, remaining detached is his toughest assignment of all.
'Julie Garwood creates masterpieces every time she writes a book. Indeed, she is the Rembrandt of romance novels.' Kansas City Star
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Regan Hamilton Madison is perfect. She's gorgeous ("a knockout with those full, luscious lips, to say nothing about the soft curves and long legs") but doesn't seem to be aware of it. She's rich (her family owns a hotel empire), but as head of her family's foundation, she spends her time giving money away. She even drives an old car. She doesn't have a boyfriend, but she does have a stalker, a psychopath bent on killing her. Enter Alec Buchanan, a smart detective who just happens to be perfect himself. He's gorgeous, "scruffy...sexy...he had impeccable manners, was obviously well-educated, and had a sense of humor." And he doesn't have a lover either. Regan draws up the titular murder list at the request of a guru/messiah who preys on "rich but lonely vulnerable women" (it's supposed to be cathartic) and who is the villain of a subplot. Although Regan is much too nice to want to murder anybody, she whimsically makes a list of the people she'd like to remove from her radar screen. When the people on Regan's list begin to die, though, the plot moves into high gear. By that time the reader is pages ahead of the clearly telegraphed plot developments, and even the real mysteries--why Regan? who is the psycho killer?--are solved by the reader long before the characters see the light. Bestseller Garwood (Killjoy, etc.) has her shining moments, but she serves up a predictable woman-in-peril suspense novel this time around.
