Dying to Please

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Summary: Its murder getting good help now days.
Review: Sarah Stevens is a butler extrodinaire, but her current employer also hired her for her secret body guarding abilities. One night, she thwarts a robbery and gets her "15 minutes of fame" on the network news. Problem is, someone who sees the interview becomes obsessed with the need for Sarah herself; and he doesn't care who he has to eliminate to get her in his employment.

Now Sarah's 85 year old employer is murdered but her new romance interest, Dectective Thomas Cahill, assures her she is no longer suspect. However, her new employers are also murdered and it really looks like "the butler did it".

This is a great new book from Linda Howard. The love scenes were hot. I especially enjoyed the strip wrestling game. The book is definitely raunchy, fun, suspenseful. Both the hero and heroine are sharp. It was great to see a relationship where both partners are equally capable and protective of each other.

For those of you who have enjoyed Linda Howard in the past, this will be a great read for you. Read on!

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Summary: An Easy-To-Read & Thrilling Suspense
Review: Wow! This book really has me hooked. I'm not even finished with it but I wanted to go ahead and express my opinion for this review. I feel that this book displays a strong female character, being that Sarah is a bodyguard/expert marksman. I also love reading about women who can take charge of an entire situation. I've not yet gotten into the romance between her and Cahill but I just can't wait. I love the closeness of the relationship between Sarah and the retired judge, Lowell Roberts, and the fact that she is his so-called "protector" makes it that much more intriguing. I also like the character of the stalker. I like it when villians start out very nice and turn into very dangerous & lethal murderers. And this one is a real sicko! I absolutely love it. Keep writing, Linda and I'll keep reading. Kudos to you for Dying To Please.

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Summary: WoW...
Review: I first picked up this book after reading some of Lind Howard's other titles. The heroine in this story is a strong charicature, and happen to be a butler. She's from a military family, can handle a firearm, and knows how to take care of herself.
While the Tom, although he is called by his last name McCall or Doc, is on the police force. He has a strong, wirey humor that slips past your defenses.
While they explore their relationship, her employer is killed. Casting her as a suspect.
With a killer on the lose and their relationship on the rocks who knows what will happen to an ex-husband and a women who has plans.

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Summary: Not the best...
Review: When I finished reading this book I had to double-check it was a new Linda Howard and not a 1980s reissue. The reason? It reads like a bad 1980s romantic thriller i.e. 'tough' heroine is as tough as jelly (especially were the hero is concerned), the hero is a macho jerk who spends 90 percent of the time distrusting the heroine and the other 10 percent having meningless sexual encounters with her and, as for the thriller element, there was no real plot or whodunnit element to the story. On finishing it one of my biggest questions was 'why?'. Why was it called a romantic thriller? It's neither romantic, in the true sense, or thrilling. An average book at best, and a poor example of Linda Howard's romantic thrillers, of which I am a fan. Please don't read this book first...instead try these LH books: Now You See Me, Kill and Tell, Mr Perfect and All the Queen's Men. Much, much, much better reads...

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Summary: Linda Howard has done it again!!!!!!
Review: I am a great fan of Linda Howard. I love her books, I became obsessed with her from Duncan's Bride...I just loved that book. No one writes like her. Dying to Please is yet another suspense novel. I must say that at first I didn't think that I could get into another supense drama, but once it had LH on the cover I was sold.

Dying to Please was great, the hero and heroine sizzled together. The chemistry between these two HOT!! I will agree that the bad guy kinda took away from the romance of the book, but once again LH has outdone herself. This book I finished in one day. It was that good. What I like most about the book, or should I say about LH books, is her characters, they always have such depth and realism. Sarah and Cahill were great together. I wish the book was longer, and that it ended differently. I hated that Sarah was a suspect...and that Cahill even for a moment doubted her....I felt her pain and anguish. I would like LH to take a break from the suspence drama and go back to writing books like, Duncan's Bride, Loving Evangeline, and my all time favorite, Lady of the West. All I have to say is if LH keeps writing like this she will have a fan in me for LIFE!!!

GREAT BOOK!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK LINDA!

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Summary: I am hooked!
Review: First Mr. Perfect and now this wow I am hooked I love how Linda ties romance, comedy, and mystery all together in one book and also uses things that could REALLY happen !!!

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Summary: Good Book
Review: I enjoyed this book. The characters connected and the story flowed. If you are a Linda Howard fan, you know the formula of her novels (cute heroine, hunky hero and a little drama), but due to Linda Howard's exceptional writing, you always have an enjoyable story.

Sarah Stevens is a butler, but not just any type of butler. She makes over $100,000 a year, and only works for top notch clientele. She is also not only a butler but a trained body guard. Sarah works for a retired judge who she loves and considers family. One night during an attempted robbery, Sarah uses her training and skills to stop the burglers. When the police arrive to apprehend the suspects, she meets Detective Cahill, and there is an instant attraction, although neither will acknowledge it. This foiled burglery attempt also attracts the local news media who do a "human interest" piece on Sarah. This newscast attracts the attention of a stalker, who later turns killer, and the story flows from there. Of course, Sarah will have to come into contact again with hunky Detective Cahill and both of them will have to work together to find this killer. I enjoyed this story and would highly recommend.

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Summary: Yet another must-read from Linda Howard!
Review: Linda Howard has been impressing me lately with her suspense novels, and this was another gem. She combines suspense stories you can't put down with lines that will keep you laughing and heroes you'll fall in love with.

I won't rehash the summary of the book, which you can read elsewhere. But it had a very strong plot, and watching Sarah be led along exactly how the villain intended was very frightening. The one thing that disappointed me was that the villain wasn't much of a secret. You knew what he was doing throughout the book, and you learned his identity long before the end. I think his identity could have just as easily been concealed until the end, giving the reader (and the characters) more of a challenge.

The romance was fantastic. Sizzling hot, but also a lot of fun. I was certainly in love with him long before the end, which isn't uncommon for me when reading Linda Howard's recent books. The repartee was fantastic. Linda Howard really has a way with dialogue, one of my favorite parts of her book. Both introspection and dialogue will keep you laughing even as you sit on the edge of your seat wondering where the action plot is going.

Get this book! I guarantee you won't be disappointed. Not like the average reader could stop laughing long enough to be anyway.

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Summary: Welcome back Linda
Review: The last book of LH that I read was Open Season, what a waste! Since then I was waiting for a new book, and this one was amazing, it has some boring parts that doesn't have to do anything with the main story, but the book will almost all the time keeps you reading and wondering how it will be in your house a female butler... and bodyguard, the way that Cahill thinks that Sarah is the killer, and the way that Sarah defend herself just LH knows how to write it.

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Summary: PLEASE IGNORE THE IGNORANT NAYSAYERS
Review: Please, if you're going to read a Linda Howard book, make sure you don't have to get up in the morning. These books are like potato chips--you can't just read a page.