The Crows
After being shot at while walking her four-month-old Rhodesian Ridgeback in the woods, P.J. Benson, who works as a CPA, returns to her rural Michigan farmhouse to find a dying man in her dining room. She soon finds herself at the top of an attractive homicide detective's suspect list, gets caught in another mess involving a missing biogenetics experiment, and begins receiving phone calls from someone she has believed to be dead for years. As the tension builds and P.J.'s life is turned upside down, she's soon in mortal danger.
Soule, her skills honed by penning 25 romance novels, writes with authority and ease, hooking the reader on page one. Romantic suspense just doesn't get any better. Mary Higgins Clark fans will find much to enjoy here.
-- Library Journal Review , November 1, 2007
Romantic Times Rating: 4 Stars
The intensity of this taut drama builds from page one. Understated characters drop clever clues, and subtle subplots with cunning twists dovetail into a startling finale.
The crows sound their death knell as a man stumbles into PJ. Benson's kitchen and dies. Her neighbors give her a motive for the murder but deny everything when homicide detective Wade Kingsley begins his investigation. In fact, every clue disappears shortly after PJ. reports it, until she believes she's going crazy like her mother. Even the poisoning of PJ. and her puppy, Baraka, doesn't prevent Wade from reciting Miranda when a gun is found in PJ's shed. But after others' motives becomes clear, the two realign and put themselves in more danger.
-- Romantic Times , Donna M. Brown, December 2007 Issue
"THE CROWS is a creative well written psychological suspense thriller."
-- Genre Go Round Review, Harriet Klausner, October 19, 2007
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"Veteran romancer Soule skillfully combines suspense, mystery and romance in a fast-moving tale."
-- Kirkus Review, September 15, 2007