Presumed Guilty & Keeper Of The Bride: Presumed Guilty\Keeper Of The Bride Review
Quick reading and worth the cost considering it is actually two short novels in one! Well worth buying either for the dog days of summer or the long winter evenings!
Presumed Guilty & Keeper Of The Bride: Presumed Guilty\Keeper Of The Bride Overview
Miranda Wood thought she had seen the last of Richard Tremain, her rich and married ex-lover—until she discovered him stabbed to death in her bed. With her knife. With her world falling around her, Miranda is determined to clear her name and discover who killed Richard. But proving her innocence may become secondary to staying alive.…
After Nina Cormier was jilted at the altar, the empty church exploded. Then someone tried to run Nina off the road, and she realized someone wanted her dead—but who? That's what Detective Sam Navarro needs to find out…fast. With a nightmare unfolding around them, Sam and Nina decipher the stunning truth. Now they're at the mercy of a brilliant madman who plays for keeps.…
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Customer Reviews
Not up to Gerritsen's usual standards - Olga Bezhanova - Edwardsville, IL
Those who have never read anything by Tess Gerritsen before might enjoy Presumed Guilty & Keeper of the Bride quite a bit. For those of us who have read and loved The Surgeon, Vanish: A Novel, and The Apprentice (Jane Rizzoli, Book 2), this collection of two short novels will come as a disappointment.
The stories themselves are not bad, the basic premise of each is interesting, the secondary characters are well-crafted. However, the contrast that Presumed Guilty & Keeper of the Bride present to the books in Gerritsen's Rizzoli and Isles series is just too jarring. First of all, in these short novels Gerritsen seems to vacillate between two very different genre: a mystery and a Harlequin-type romance novel. While as we all know she is pretty good with the mystery genre, her attempts at integrating a heavily romance subplot feel forced and, at times, ridiculous.
Another thing that I found annoying as a long-time Rizzolli and Isles fan, is that the author who has given us two of the strongest female characters in mystery genre would write two short novels centered around weepy, whiney, pathetic damsel-in-distress type of heroine that is described as "surprisingly fragile" and looking "as though a strong gust might blow her away." Of course, each pathetic damsel in distress is accompanied by a strong male willing to solve all the problems haunting this particular "little lady."
I guess in the future I'll just wait for a new installment in the Rizzolli/Isles series to come out instead of buying any more of these inferior-quality shorter novels.
fantastic author - Sandra L. Thornton - Fond du Lac, WI
Being a prior medical transcripionist her mysteries are right up my alley and I have now read every one of them.
Presumed Guilty & Keeper of the Bride - I. Evans -
Was very disappointed in this book. It is not up to her great standards as an author of so many other terrific mystery books.
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