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Summary: Good Story
Review: I love Karen Robards' novels. The heroine is usually pretty lively even when life has dealt them a hard blow, and the men in her novels are all "definitely men". This is a very good story and I would highly recommend. Julie Carlson believes that her husband is having an affair on her. She decides to track him down and instead runs into a drag queen who is actually private investigator Mac McQuarry. Mac is interested in Julie, and he also has his own score to settle with Julie's husband who he believes set him up. Then someone tries to murder Julie, and now its up to Mac to figure out who the killer is before Julie winds up dead. Very good story!
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Summary: Good Story
Review: I love Karen Robards' novels. The heroine is usually pretty lively even when life has dealt them a hard blow, and the men in her novels are all "definitely men". This is a very good story and I would highly recommend. Julie Carlson believes that her husband is having an affair on her. She decides to track him down and instead runs into a drag queen who is actually private investigator Mac McQuarry. Mac is interested in Julie, and he also has his own score to settle with Julie's husband who he believes set him up. Then someone tries to murder Julie, and now its up to Mac to figure out who the killer is before Julie winds up dead. Very good story!
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Summary: Refreshing and fun.
Review: I read this book in two days and had fun time reading it. Julie Carlson is afraid her husband is having an affair and hires Mac or (Debby) as she called him to spy on him to find out if her assumption is true. After this turn of events everything goes out of control for both of them. But to me my favorite character would have to be Josaphine, Mac's little Toy Poodle. I enjoyed her personality, and spunk,and at the end she jumps in and nearly saves both of their lives by attacking Bast one of the bad guys. I really enjoyed this book and will enjoy reading more of her books. I already have Beachcomber in my List at home waiting for me. I highly recommend this book. Read it and enjoy.
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Summary: Another Robards, another try...
Review: Julie Carlson has had it. When her husband (Sid Carlson) sneaks out in the middle of the night (again), she trails him to a red-light district, and ends up getting carnapped, left only in her PJs with cellphone in hand. She meets "Debbie," a cross-dresser in drag, and has no choice but to trust him (her?). "Debbie" is actually an investigator named Mac McQuarry, spying on a client's soon-to-be-divorced husband. Together, they try to find the truth about Sid, and end up falling in love. They also end up in bed, and almost getting killed. I like the humor in this. As weird as this might sound, my favorite character is the poodle, Josephine, Mac's angel-of-a-dog with a slight Dr.-Jekyll-Mr.-Hyde problem. Basically, she's all cute today, then biting a man's leg off tomorrow. I have to say that I don't know what Mac sees in Julie. They go to bed, and then she tells him to forget about it 'cause she's just going through an immature phase? And I got tired of her in the middle of the book. Sure, she had a right to be mad when Mac didn't tell her the truth about important things. But when the guy is trying to make sure you don't get killed, you've gotta give him a hand. She was being so difficult, it was almost silly. But, like other Robards books, the plot was up to par. It twisted enough to keep me guessing, and still had that happy ending. I just couldn't see the falling-in-love part.
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Summary: TRUST THIS STRANGER!
Review: Karen Robards latest is a great escape. Think Linda Howard's MR. PERFECT or Janet Evanovich's series with Stephanie Plum. . . What do these books have in common with TO TRUST A STRANGER? Humor! Humor! I love it. Oh, don't worry. You'll get the handsome hero and the beautiful heroine in danger, the bad guys, the steamy sex, etc. But you also get a large does of humor. I love authors whose characters are funny as well as sexy. I'm not sure why this book didn't get a solid 5 stars in the ratings, but I for one urge you to give it a read. A keeper!
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Summary: Plot never thickens...what plot
Review: This book is a bore and you could probably read a few chapters in the beginning, maybe one in the middle and then the last and feel you have completed your read. The story telling reads like a teenage harlequin romance book. Definitely a beach book you could leave in the sand.
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Summary: Sexy Thriller!
Review: This book was hard to put down. It was both sexy & suspenseful! Julie Carlson is a former Miss South Carolina & currently a successful boutique owner in an unhappy marriage. She meets Mac McQuarry under unusual circumstances & soon hires him to spy on her cheating husband. There's an instant strong attraction between the two. Julie soon starts to depend on him for comfort & security & they end up having phenomenal sex but are later caught up in a race for survival thanks to Julie's husband, Sid who led to Mac's downfall & had something to do with his brother's death 15 years earlier. There are many twists & turns in this book. I strongly recommend it!
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Summary: Taut, exciting tale!
Review: This is a very taut well crafted thriller about Julie and Mac (a police detective) on the run from Julie's mobster husband and his connections. It's loaded with excitement and thrills. Amazon's editorial review does plenty to describe the plot. The reason I am writing this review is because there is just one cautionary note I would add here. There are some extremely graphic sensuous scenes -- one went on for three pages straight, never letting up. For those who enjoy these scenes, it's great reading, but for those who don't want to read the raw sensuality in part of this book, you may want to skip a few pages. Still well worth reading.
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Summary: My favorite of Karen Robards
Review: To Trust a Stranger is my favorite Karen Robards book so far and I have enjoyed her other work as well. I just liked Mac so much from the beginning it added to my enjoyment of the book. A big, masculine guy who is comfortable enough in his own skin to dress in drag in order to spy on a cheating spouse for his client was so funny. He's got this attitude like "Yeah, so, I'm in a dress." Then Julie runs into him while out doing her own spying on her husband. She lets Mac help her simply because she's thinking of him as a "Girlfriend." Her assumption about Mac's sexual orientation gives her that impression that it's nice to have a man around who will be nothing more than a friend. Of course all that changes as things start coming out into the open. Julie's husband is doing more than cheating and Mac isn't who she thinks he is. Around every corner there is something unexpected popping up and it was an enjoyable read. I first heard the abridged audio of this book and it really didn't do the book justice. It leaned toward the humor and there is much more to the story than that, so I picked up the book and was glad I did. As others have mentioned it's pretty steamy so I like to add that in so you don't pick up this book and then are shocked that it's in there. This book has some definite HEAT coming off of it so be warned. Julie is kind of annoying but for me Mac made up for it by miles and miles. I really like this book and have read it several times now.
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Summary: Trust this awesome book for a good read!!
Review: To Trust a Stranger was so awesome I could not put it down! I'll admit the heroine was a bit of a let down simply because of her problem with her image and food. But it was steamy as usual and one of Ms. Robard's best!! Read it! You won't be dissapointed!
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