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Sharp Edges
Sharp Edges
Sharp Edges
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Sharp Edges

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Love’s passionate snags get the smooth touch in this sparkling masterpiece from Jayne Ann Krentz!

She put her art on the line—and her heart in his hands...

Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, and a connoisseur of beauty. As director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, she’s been asked to travel to Frog Cove Island—an artistic haven near Seattle—to catalog an important collection of art glass. But thanks to unsavory rumors surrounding the collector’s death, the museum insists that Eugenia take along Cyrus Chandler Colfax—a rough-hewn private investigator whose taste in glass runs to ice-cold bottles filled with beer.

When Colfax declares they must pose as a couple, Eugenia protests in a manner as loud as his Hawaiian shirts. But now their very lives depend on the most artful collaboration they can imagine. For a killer is lurking among Frog Cove’s chic galleries, and if anyone sees through their marital masquerade, their own secret agendas—as well as their plans for survival—may be smashed to smithereens!
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPocket Books
Release dateSep 7, 2010
ISBN9781439120118
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Jayne Ann Krentz

The author of over fifty consecutive New York Times bestsellers, Jayne Ann Krentz writes romantic-suspense in three different worlds: Contemporary (as Jayne Ann Krentz), historical (as Amanda Quick), and futuristic/paranormal (as Jayne Castle). There are over 30 million copies of her books in print. She earned a BA in history from the University of California, Santa Cruz and went on to obtain a Master’s degree in library science from San Jose State University in California. Before she began writing full time she worked as a librarian in both academic and corporate libraries. She is married and lives with her husband, Frank, in Seattle, Washington. Jayne loves to hear from her readers and can be found at Facebook.com/JayneAnnKrentz.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Decent Krentz contemporary romance. I hadn't read it before. It doesn't have any paranorma; elements so that was a plus. It's biggest failing as a mystery is that the bad guys (two separate villains) always make a long speech explaining how and why they've done what they've done. Krentz writes decent dia;og and keeps the story moving but she really writes the same h/h characters over and over. Despite the paint-by-numbers effect, I do like reading her books because they move fast and are not overly angsty. Light reading.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Love the characters…opposites attracting one another, the dialogue is quick and witty and funny. The plot is good, though the demise of Damien was too simplified.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    You know something of what you're getting into when you open this book and look at the epigraphs:Forged in fire, neither liquid nor solid, capable of transmitting or reflecting light, glass is proof that there is magic in the world. - From the introductory notes of the Catalogue of the Leabrook Glass Museum by Eugenia Swift, Museum DirectorThe finest glass is a glass that's filled with really good beer - Cyrus Chandler Colfax, Private InvestigatorAnd these are our two main characters, she's going to Adam Daventry's house to catalogue his collection to prepare it to include in their collection. He's been asked to investigate Daventry's death, who fell down a set of stairs. Unbeknownst to Eugenia he also suspects that a rare piece of glass, the Hades Cup, a cup that his former firm was supposed to deliver, however his former partner disappeared and his wife ended up dead. Close proximity of the two main characters causes them to find more regard for each other and they find that while they are quite opposite in many ways, they're quite similar in others. It's a romance, you know what to expect there but the thriller end of things had a lot of twists and turns and kept me guessing.A fun light read.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    The Hades Cup is a beautiful piece of ancient Roman glass. And it has a long dark history - when it changes hands, someone dies.Director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, Eugenia Swift has a legitimate reason for traveling to Frog Cove Island. She's there to inventory a private glass collection. And a second, private reason that has everything to do with discovering why her friend, an accomplished woman on the water, apparently washed overboard and drowned.Security expert Cyrus Colfax's private reasons for traveling to the island have everything to do with the Hades Cup. But he has a legitimate reason for traveling to the island, as well - he just needs a cover story, and Eugenia will do nicely...A complicated plot, and a well-matched pair of main characters. It may stretch the realms of credibility, but that's what fiction's for, right?

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