Blue Smoke
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4.5 • 661 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Incomparable #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts delivers a tale of gut-level fear, human triumph, and the bonds that carry us through our darkest times…
Reena Hale’s destiny was shaped in the destructive—yet fascinatingly beautiful—fire that leveled her family’s pizzeria when she was young. Now an arson investigator, she finds her strength and wits constantly tested, although sometimes the job seems like a snap compared to her love life. But she can’t always blame the men. After all, a soot-caked woman barking orders and smelling of smoke isn’t the biggest turn-on in the world. Then she meets Bo Goodnight, who seems different. He’s been trying to find Reena for years, and now that she’s close enough to touch, he has no intention of letting go.
Nor does the man who has begun to haunt Reena’s life—with taunting phone calls and a string of horrifying crimes. And as Reena tries desperately to trace the origins—of the calls, the fires, the hatred aimed in her direction—she will step into the worst inferno she has ever faced...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Romantic suspense queen Roberts (Blue Dahlia, etc.) lights up Baltimore's Little Italy with this appealing story of love, family, food and arson. Eleven-year-old Reena Hale, watching her family's restaurant go up in flames, decides to become an arson investigator. The fire shapes another child's destiny, too, as Joey Pastorelli sees his father go to prison for setting the blaze. Reena's close-knit Italian family rebuilds; Reena grows up and completes police and firefighter training. Despite inheriting her mother's good looks, Reena proves unlucky in love, mainly because her beaux tend to die in fires, but her fortunes look up after she meets hunky carpenter Bo Goodnight. Bo gets along with Reena's family, friends and co-workers, and handles the demands of her career with patient humor, so nothing stands in their way except an obsessed, pyromaniac stalker determined to kill any man Reena loves. Although it does take Reena an inordinately long time to identify her nemesis, Roberts portrays investigative procedure more accurately than her many imitators. Well-sketched supporting characters with potential subplots of their own suggest that the prolific Roberts will put her feet to the fire again. Main selection, the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club.
Customer Reviews
Blue Smoke
Excellent mystery, but a bit too gory in some parts!!
Blue Smoke is a hot read.
While there is great conversation, dialogue, and humor.
Oh, and yes… and a hot romance to round out the action
Butmake no mistake this is an intense thriller about a man obsessed with the past and in love with power and beauty of fire. His grudge against an entire family and the law establishment he blames for his early arrest, plays out in grime crimes or murder and arson that only his first victim can solve. She took the opposite path as an arson inspector and specialist who never forgot the night her parent’s restaurant burned to the ground and works to keep arsonists off the streets. Her ultimate challenge, stop the man who, years earlier, burned her parent’s Italian restaurant down, and who embarked on a career of lightening up anyone and anything that caused him humiliation.
This books gets a 5 thumbs up!
On Fire
Thriller, love story and more. Fast read hard to put down