After Hours

Rating:
Summary: powerfully taut romantic suspense
Review: Like many NYPD Detectives and cops in general, Nick Sinestra is divorced and supplements his salary by working celebrity events as a guard. Unlike other police officers, Nick also enhances his income by selling ?findings? to the sleazy Star Gazer tabloid. His current target for both of his moonlighting jobs is shy widow Portia Wells, whose deceased husband was the president of the highly regarded Nature Preservation Society. Nick follows her from Manhattan to New Rochelle. When an aggressive reporter arrives, Portia realizes that Nick sold her out.

Because of a confrontation with a homeland security specialist, Nick?s superior places him on vacation for a month, his first time off in over a year and a half. This enables Star Gazer to send Nick to Colorado to find information on the reclusive Portia. As he tries to regain her trust, Nick realizes that someone is trying to frighten Portia with each incident, more dangerous than the previous one. As the New Yorker falls in love with his pigeon and Portia reciprocates, thugs, most likely working for builder Mahoney, assault her leaving his beloved ON THIN ICE.

Lynn Erickson has earned a deserved reputation for powerfully taut romantic suspense tales and her latest AFTER HOURS will substantiate her esteem. The story line starts slow as Ms. Erickson introduces the two key players and the mistrust that is critical to the novel. Once Portia returns to Colorado, the novel accelerates until the final confrontation. Although the audience ironically knows who is pushing Portia ON THE EDGE, readers will appreciate the unfolding of the drama as Nick risks his life to keep his beloved safe.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: powerfully taut romantic suspense
Review: Like many NYPD Detectives and cops in general, Nick Sinestra is divorced and supplements his salary by working celebrity events as a guard. Unlike other police officers, Nick also enhances his income by selling "findings' to the sleazy Star Gazer tabloid. His current target for both of his moonlighting jobs is shy widow Portia Wells, whose deceased husband was the president of the highly regarded Nature Preservation Society. Nick follows her from Manhattan to New Rochelle. When an aggressive reporter arrives, Portia realizes that Nick sold her out.

Because of a confrontation with a homeland security specialist, Nick's superior places him on vacation for a month, his first time off in over a year and a half. This enables Star Gazer to send Nick to Colorado to find information on the reclusive Portia. As he tries to regain her trust, Nick realizes that someone is trying to frighten Portia with each incident, more dangerous than the previous one. As the New Yorker falls in love with his pigeon and Portia reciprocates, thugs, most likely working for builder Mahoney, assault her leaving his beloved ON THIN ICE.

Lynn Erickson has earned a deserved reputation for powerfully taut romantic suspense tales and her latest AFTER HOURS will substantiate her esteem. The story line starts slow as Ms. Erickson introduces the two key players and the mistrust that is critical to the novel. Once Portia returns to Colorado, the novel accelerates until the final confrontation. Although the audience ironically knows who is pushing Portia ON THE EDGE, readers will appreciate the unfolding of the drama as Nick risks his life to keep his beloved safe.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: Exciting, Chilling, and A Good Romance
Review: The first half of this book you don't know whether you like Nick or not. But as you read you realize he has reasons to be cynical.

Portia Carr Wells is the widow of the president of The Nature Presevation Society. She has just been asked to take her husband's place as president.

After moonlighting as a security guard at a fund raising dinner, Detective Nick Sinestra follows Portia to her mother's. Her mother is an aging movie star who lives a hermit-like existance. Nick also moonlights for a sleasy tabloid, Star Gazer.

Portia figures out that he was the one who led the press to her mother's sanctuary. But there is nothing she can do about it.

Nick gets offered 10,000 dollars for a follow-up on Portia. His Captain has ordered him to take 4 weeks vacation, so he thinks why not.

Nick finds out that Portia thinks her husband was murdered by a real estate mogul. When things start to happen to and around Portia, Nick confesses and promises to find out what happened to her husband. He feels uneasy and very wrong about what he has done to her. For the first time the people whose privacy he has invaded become real to him.

When her barn is burned down, he insists on paying for it. He suddenly realizes that something he has done may be bringing danger to her life.

As the plot moves on we realize that Nick is a good detective, and he is using everything he knows to help Portia. Esspecially because he is falling in love with her.

A good read and enjoyable plot.