As Good as Dead

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Summary: Loved this book
Review: As Good As Dead by Beverly Barton is a gripping book in the Cherokee Pointe Series.

Reve Sorrell grew up a daughter of privilege. She is not so sure she wants to be related to Jazzy Talbot, her look alike. Jazzy is the polar opposite of Reve. But Reve is drawn to this sleepy little town and wants some answers.

Sheriff Jacob Butler has his hands bull with a possible serial killer on the loose. At first meeting Reve with her high class ways really rubs him the wrong way...Or does she? The sparks between Jacob and Reve are high voltage. Jacob realizes whoever is killing red headed women has their sights on Jazzy and Reve.

Jacob sets out to protect Reve from the growing danger. But she poses a bigger threat to his heart.

The suspense is riveting, you can feel the evil lurking. Reve and Jacob start out as less then friendly but they have a passion and a connection that is amazing. I love Beverly Barton books, I think this is the best one yet.



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Summary: My first venture into Bev. Barton Stories
Review: Since this was my first venture in a Beverly Barton suspense thriller, I should have known better to start with a book that finished a series.

I have to tell you that I was seeing double and doing double takes when it came to all the characters included in this book. Wow. Keeping track of them took all my concentration.

A murderer is killing redheads and wouldn't you know, Reve and Jazzy are redheads and just learning from DNA testing that they're sisters separated at birth.

Barton does a great job of carrying on several sub-plots, both romantical and subverse along with the main plot story. She pulls all the strings together in the end and ties them all up in a nice little knot. For me, I'd like to have known a bit more detail about how the story lines ended, but then maybe what I'm really missing is the beginning of the story. I think I'll give Barton's other books a try and start this series over from the beginning.

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Summary: entertaining romantic suspense
Review: Socialite Reve Sorrell returns to Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee to learn more about her family history and to find out for certain whether local bar owner Jazzy Talbot is her twin though the two look identical except for minor material things. Jazzy wonders why her beloved septuagenarian Aunt Sally would have lied about a sister and perhaps her mother while Reve struggles with being adopted.

Meanwhile a serial killer is murdering redheaded women who look similar to Reve and Jazzy. At the same time, the unknown assailant who appears to have killed their mother plans to murder the siblings having failed to so three decades ago. While Jamie Upton plans to marry Jazzy, Sheriff Jacob Butler and Reve are attracted to one another although neither wants to admit that having had a homicide taint their first impressions (see THE LAST TO DIE). However, both men quickly realize they must do whatever including risking their lives to keep their respective girlfriends safe from two different killers.

This entertaining romantic suspense closes the Tennessee Mountain trilogy by answering the lingering questions from the previous novels while also returning many cast member. In fact the lead romantic couple of AS GOOD AS DEAD had their "falling out" in the previous novel. The story line is fast-paced with several subplots that ultimately tie together with two final confrontations involving the siblings separately. Though one must wonder how a certain male could miss the signs of who were the killers and their motives, Beverly Barton is as good as they get when it comes to satisfying sub-genre fans.

Harriet Klausner


Rating:
Summary: Ok
Review: The book was an easy read but I was disappointed that the relationship between Reve and Jacob was not more developed. There were glimpses into the development but it wasn't until the last couple of book that they got together and that was to have sex. I felt that the book was once again about Jazzy, Reve's sister, whom we had read about in "The Last to Die".

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Summary: The Best in the Cherokee Point Trilogy
Review: The conclusion to the Cherokee Point stories has finally arrived and Barton did not disappoint. The story remained with me until the end, especially once the secrets and the killers are revealed. It is great to see Jazzy, Genny, and Jacob find happiness and their respective loves. Barton continues to write great suspense in the likes of Sandra Brown, Linda Howard, and Karen Robards. I say that's pretty good company.

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Summary: UnNerving
Review: The problem with most suspense novels, I usually have the 'WHO DONE IT' figured out before I'm even half-way through the book. Not so with this one. Keeping the road to discovery chilling, suspenseful and exciting, Ms. Barton was very clever in keeping the culprit, behind the mysterious deaths of all those unfortunate redheads, under wraps, until exposing an idenity that is sure to draw a gasp from the reader.
Combine that with the sexual tension she fuels between Reve Sorrell's and Mr. Jacob Butler and what you have with, 'As Good As Dead' is a very powerful, nail-biting, intense read.

Rating:
Summary: An unbelievably good book
Review: This is the third and last in the series about Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee. It is the best although the other two (THE FIFTH VICTIM & THE LAST TO DIE) are excellent this one is superb.

Reve is the twin sister of Jazzy. They take DNA tests and then confront Jazzy's Aunt Sally. Reve was found in a dumpster and adopted by the Sorrell's. It turns out Jazzy was abandoned in a stump in the woods. Sally found her and raised her.

From here to much information ruins the book. I will say the romances are wonderful and let us know you are never to old to find love.

Not only does Jacob and Dallas, the sheriff and chief of police, have to try to protect the twins from whoever tried to kill them 30 years ago. There is a serial killer killing redheads, Reve and Jazzy are both redheads.

The story is wonderful full of twists and turns. I could not put it down. And the climax was great not to mention the total surprises at the end of the book. Don't miss this one.