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Summary: Fans of this author will love this
Review: After several years of marriage, Julie Carlson realizes that her spouse Sid slips out every evening at midnight when he thinks she is fast asleep. Julie figures Sid is cheating and plans to catch him with his lover. She pretends to sleep and when he leaves follow him only to lose him. When her car is stolen, transvestite Mac McQuarry rescues her.
Julie assumes her savior is gay, but is unaware that Mac is an undercover private investigator trying to prove Sid is dirty with mob ties. Sid's friends probably killed his first wife and Mac's brother, and ruined the latter's police career. Mac uses Julie to get at Sid, but soon realizes that the mob wants him and Julie dead.
TO TRUST A STRANGER is an exciting romantic suspense novel that never slows down as Sid and his pals need Julie and Mac dead. Though a taut thriller, the weakness of the plot lies in the intrepid Julie, who remained oblivious for years as to how cruel her spouse was until she decides to investigate his alleged cheating. Karen Robards has written a terse tale, but some of the key characters are too malicious to care what happens to them. Harriet Klausner
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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: A Page Turner
Review: Julie Carlson decides to follow her husband one night, as he leaves their home. She believes he's been cheating on her. That night, Mac, dressed as a transvestite, will meet Julie, as her car crashes into his. Coincidentally, Mac is in an investigation business. And, he knows Julie's husband. As Julie has Mac investigate her husband, she will not know Mac's hidden agenda. That agenda will cause problems between them, as both Julie's and Mac's lives are threatened. TO TRUST A STRANGER has one of the best prologues I've ever read. And, the relationship between Julie and Mac is believable, and very tempestuous and sexy. There's some interesting secondary characters, and some really scary bad guys. The story moves very quickly, and made this book a real page-turner. Oh yes, and before I forget, there's a dog, Josephine, who is a real scene-stealer. There's only a couple of things that keep this book from being a 5-star read, for me. The book seemed a little too short, the romantic relationship between Julie and Mac, a little too quick. Still, it's very much worth reading, and maybe rereading.
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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: Terrific Suspense
Review: Suspenseful and sexy, Ms. Robards' read is a thriller with non-stop action providing hours of glued-to-the-pages entertainment. Former South Carolina beauty queen Julie Carlson suspects that her mega-bucks husband, Sid, is cheating on her. As she follows him one night, a farcical set of circumstances leave her clad in skimpy pajamas, stranded in Charleston's red light district without a car and with a transvestite named Debbie as her only companion. Debbie is really Mac McQuarry, a P.I. who went undercover to locate a client's cheating husband. When Mac aids Julie out of the jam she is in, Julie discovers that Debbie is really a man, but she assumes that he is gay. Not bothering to correct her, Mac lets Julie think what she will, adding an element of humor to this intense read as Julie finds herself fantasizing about Debbie aka Mac. Soon, Julie discovers that her life may be in danger, and Mac is probably the only one that she can trust. Swallowing her pride, Julie tries to overlook the fact that Mac omitted the truth about his sexuality and his previous association with Sid. In a heart-stopping race for their lives, Julie and Mac are on the run from the police, the mob, and a hit man. Can they find safety before they both end up dead? Combining the excitement of a mystery with the spice of a romance, Ms. Robards has, once again, firmly established her position in the genre of romantic suspense. And all the characters, most especially Mac and Julie, are so realistically written, thereby increasing the credibility of this read. A MUST READ!
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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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