The Rapids (Mira)

Rating:
Summary: Good but alittle weak
Review: I enjoyed it for the most part. I think the romance was a little rushed. I look forward to Ethan Brooker's story!!!! I hope it's next!!!


Rating:
Summary: great!
Review: I found this book to be great fun, with really likeable characters! I have to admit that I read it in one sitting and made my husband put the kids to bed so that I could finish! I can't wait for the next book to come out!

Rating:
Summary: The Rapids
Review: I love her as an author and I read all of her books but this book was a disappointment. I love how it tied into and brings the characters of her other books but it took eveything I had for me to finish reading this book. She still remains one of my favorite authors and I will look forward to her next book.

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Summary: tense romantic suspense
Review: In The Hague, U.S. Diplomatic Security Agent Maggie Spencer receives an e-mail from an unknown addressee. She opens the attachment which states that FBI and U.S. Marshall Service most wanted Nicholas Janssen can be caught if Maggie hurries. Though doubting the accuracy, Maggie goes to the rendezvous point and captures the tax evading expatriate. The arrest brings a wave of attention on Maggie that she would prefer to avoid, but also enables her to move a bit past the murder of her father as he was at the wrong time in the wrong place during a bank robbery in the city.

U.S. Marshal Rob Dunnemore comes to The Hague to learn more about the anonymous tip as Nicholas almost killed him and several other agents in an ambush a few months ago. He believes she knows more than she relates to him, which turns out to be true because she knows the tipster is a schizoid who enjoys masquerades to hide her identify. When a diplomat is murdered, Maggie and Rob join forces not knowing that Janssen has a Russian connection that will eliminate those who could incarcerate him for a long time.

Carla Neggers always provides her audience with tense romantic suspense tales; her latest is a rapidly-paced novel that starts rather quickly and never slows down until the final altercation occurs. The investigative crime thriller contains two likable lead protagonists struggling with an attraction while trying to do the difficult job. Though this reviewer cannot understand opening an attached file from an unknown source (federal firewalls that good?), readers will immensely enjoy Ms. Neggers' action-packed tale.

Harriet Klausner


Rating:
Summary: Another excellent read!
Review: Once again Carla Neggers wrote a book that kept me up most of the night. I'm enjoying this nonseries series. I like that each book stands on it's own but I also like the continuity of using characters from previous books in the new offering. The Rapids gave me an inside look at the Netherlands, a setting I haven't encountered before The Rapids. The developing relationship between Maggie Spencer and Rob Dunnemore is nicely rounded with humor as they trail an unknown assasin. I like the suspense genre and Ms. Neggers writes it with plenty of detail and a fast pace! If this is your first Carla Neggers novel, go back and get her other books!