Along Came Trouble

Rating:
Summary: GREAT FUN
Review: In Trinity Harbor, Virginia everyone knows that Tucker Spencer is the most honest, honorable, and helpful person in town as he abides fully by the law. Perhaps the only error in judgment he ever made that taints his perfect image is Mary Elizabeth Swan who broke his heart several years ago when she dropped him and married politician Lawrence Chandler. Though he still dreams of her even after six years, Tucker knows that his once beloved is no longer a Swan.

To Tucker's shock, he comes home to find Mary Elizabeth sleeping naked in his bed. She explains that she desperately needs his help as someone killed her spouse with the circumstantial evidence pointing towards her. Though he has avoided Mary Elizabeth, Tucker still loves her and believes her plea of innocence. Wondering if he is a fool too blind to see the truth, Tucker takes a leave of absence and begins an investigation, but no one else trusts Mary Elizabeth after she hurt their sheriff so badly once before. Still as Tucker and Mary Elizabeth work closely together, they begin to fall in love, but he mistrusts her with his heart.

ALONG CAME TROUBLE is an exhilarating romantic suspense starring two delightful lead characters. Readers will question, just like his family did, why Tucker willingly risks everything to help the person who let him down most in the world. Still the police procedural subplot and the romance blend cleverly together so that the audience receives a powerful story line that will enhance Sherryl Wood's reputation for quality novels.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: exhilarating romantic suspense
Review: In Trinity Harbor, Virginia everyone knows that Tucker Spencer is the most honest, honorable, and helpful person in town as he abides fully by the law. Perhaps the only error in judgment he ever made that taints his perfect image is Mary Elizabeth Swan who broke his heart several years ago when she dropped him and married politician Lawrence Chandler. Though he still dreams of her even after six years, Tucker knows that his once beloved is no longer a Swan.

To Tucker's shock, he comes home to find Mary Elizabeth sleeping naked in his bed. She explains that she desperately needs his help as someone killed her spouse with the circumstantial evidence pointing towards her. Though he has avoided Mary Elizabeth, Tucker still loves her and believes her plea of innocence. Wondering if he is a fool too blind to see the truth, Tucker takes a leave of absence and begins an investigation, but no one else trusts Mary Elizabeth after she hurt their sheriff so badly once before. Still as Tucker and Mary Elizabeth work closely together, they begin to fall in love, but he mistrusts her with his heart.

ALONG CAME TROUBLE is an exhilarating romantic suspense starring two delightful lead characters. Readers will question, just like his family did, why Tucker willingly risks everything to help the person who let him down most in the world. Still the police procedural subplot and the romance blend cleverly together so that the audience receives a powerful story line that will enhance Sherryl Wood's reputation for quality novels.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: Perfect Ending
Review: Sherryl Woods holds the reader suspended in deadlock----but it is well worth the wait. Family members are victims of circumstances involving twists and turns in the political and social life connecting the village of Trinity Harbor with the state capital of Virginia. I recommend reading About that Man and Ask Anyone, the 1st two in the series, before reading this one....a perfect ending to the trilogy about the Spencer clan.

Rating:
Summary: Perfect Ending
Review: Sherryl Woods holds the reader suspended in deadlock----but it is well worth the wait. Family members are victims of circumstances involving twists and turns in the political and social life connecting the village of Trinity Harbor with the state capital of Virginia. I recommend reading About that Man and Ask Anyone, the 1st two in the series, before reading this one....a perfect ending to the trilogy about the Spencer clan.

Rating:
Summary: GREAT FUN
Review: Sherryl Woods' stories are alway very entertaining. This book does not disappoint. It contains all the ingredients of a good book, romance, humor, and mystery. I highly recommend it.

Rating:
Summary: For Grandmas
Review: There are 390 pages in this book and the main couple only gets 'romantic' on page 345. I hardly call that a romance, yet that is how this book is classified - as "contemporary romance." This book is very far from being contemporary, and I'm not really sure it's all that appealing to women in the younger set (a.k.a. 20s and 30s). This book reads as though my grandmother was telling it to me - it's a grandma romance. One of the main romantic characters in the book is a curmudgenly old guy age 87. Not romantic, not sexy, not something very appealing to read about. The characters are sedate, the action is slim to none, the characters are boring, the plot is weak, and the writing is drab and just... oldish. This book has no staying power - it doesn't involve you or make you want to remember the characters afterwards. I wouldn't recommend this book or any others by Woods, especially if you're a younger woman. The book doesn't capture the spirit of romance at all.

Rating:
Summary: Entertaining, nothing more
Review: To put it plainly, the book is entertainment and nothing more. On the minus side, it is full of coincidences that just don't happen in real life -- without these coincidences, the story would have held fine, but it just wouldn't have been as "cute".
On the plus side, the writing style is very fluid and entertaining, the characters mostly very realistic. The style keeps you going on the next chapter, even though you should have been asleep half an hour ago. It's easy reading, great for lounging by the pool or ocean. Don't expect too much, and you'll be entertained.
This book has a headliner (I believe that's what they call one-line "reviews" from popular newspapers or critics, that are printed on the back cover) that is about a different book by the same author -- which I find totally rediculous. Had I noticed it before starting to read, I probably would have put the book aside...

Rating:
Summary: Entertaining, nothing more
Review: To put it plainly, the book is entertainment and nothing more. On the minus side, it is full of coincidences that just don't happen in real life -- without these coincidences, the story would have held fine, but it just wouldn't have been as "cute".
On the plus side, the writing style is very fluid and entertaining, the characters mostly very realistic. The style keeps you going on the next chapter, even though you should have been asleep half an hour ago. It's easy reading, great for lounging by the pool or ocean. Don't expect too much, and you'll be entertained.
This book has a headliner (I believe that's what they call one-line "reviews" from popular newspapers or critics, that are printed on the back cover) that is about a different book by the same author -- which I find totally rediculous. Had I noticed it before starting to read, I probably would have put the book aside...

Rating:
Summary: A fitting end in Trinity Harbor...
Review: Tucker Spencer never forgot the woman who broke his heart years ago. He learned a valuable lesson when Mary Elizabeth Swan married someone else...don't risk your heart for anyone. When she turns up in his bed after finding her savvy politician husband murdered, Tucker discovers that he can't turn her away. Now he has a murder in his county that needs to be solved, but has to take himself off the case because he feels his objectivity is in question. As if he doesn't have enough on his plate, suddenly he has his father, King Spencer, on his back about helping the social climbing witch that broke his heart all those years ago.

Liz Chandler realized early on that her marriage was a mistake. She didn't do anything about it though, not until a week before her husband was murdered and she told him she wanted a divorce. After a very public scene, Liz returned to her family home in Trinity Harbor, not expecting to find her husband murdered in the library. The only person she can trust is Tucker Spencer, the man she left so many years before.

Now, with a murder investigation going on, Liz and Tucker are gingerly finding their way together toward what they lost so many years ago. The reader won't be dissapointment in Woods' final installment in the Trinity Harbor trilogy. We will also learn the fate of King and Frances as well as get caught up with news of Daisy and Walker as well as Bobby and Jenna.

Rating:
Summary: A fitting end in Trinity Harbor...
Review: Tucker Spencer never forgot the woman who broke his heart years ago. He learned a valuable lesson when Mary Elizabeth Swan married someone else...don't risk your heart for anyone. When she turns up in his bed after finding her savvy politician husband murdered, Tucker discovers that he can't turn her away. Now he has a murder in his county that needs to be solved, but has to take himself off the case because he feels his objectivity is in question. As if he doesn't have enough on his plate, suddenly he has his father, King Spencer, on his back about helping the social climbing witch that broke his heart all those years ago.

Liz Chandler realized early on that her marriage was a mistake. She didn't do anything about it though, not until a week before her husband was murdered and she told him she wanted a divorce. After a very public scene, Liz returned to her family home in Trinity Harbor, not expecting to find her husband murdered in the library. The only person she can trust is Tucker Spencer, the man she left so many years before.

Now, with a murder investigation going on, Liz and Tucker are gingerly finding their way together toward what they lost so many years ago. The reader won't be dissapointment in Woods' final installment in the Trinity Harbor trilogy. We will also learn the fate of King and Frances as well as get caught up with news of Daisy and Walker as well as Bobby and Jenna.