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Killing Her Softly
Killing Her Softly
Killing Her Softly
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Killing Her Softly

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When A Killer Doesn't Want To Get Caught. . .

The woman has been waiting impatiently on her satin sheets. Her lover knows exactly how to satisfy her. But this time, he has something else planned. . .something that will really take her breath away. . .

There's Only One Way To Eliminate His Victims. . .

In the courtroom, defense lawyer Quinn Cortez has a reputation as a ruthless predator who always gets what he wants. In the bedroom, it's no different. Quinn is an accomplished seducer with a long list of conquests. But now, someone has brutally slaughtered one of them, and Quinn has no memory of the night he was found in her home. . .

Softly. . .

Annabelle Vanderley wants justice for her murdered cousin, and if Quinn Cortez swears he can find the true killer, she's willing to give him the benefit of a doubt. But then another body is discovered. . .and another. . .each victim an ex-lover of Quinn's. Now, consumed by dread, Annabelle wonders just how close she may be to a twisted psychopath for whom her pain would be the ultimate pleasure. . .

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LanguageEnglish
PublisherZebra Books
Release dateJan 7, 2010
ISBN9781420118704
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Beverly Barton

Movies fascinated Beverly Barton from an early age, and by the time she was seven she was rewriting the movies she saw to give them all happy endings. After her marriage and the births of her children, Beverly continued to be a voracious reader and a devoted movie goer, but she put her writing aspirations on hold. Now, after writing over 70 books, receiving numerous awards and becoming a New York Times bestselling author, Beverly's career became her dream come true.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    An interesting plot in this romantic suspense that started out okay but soon started to drag expounding on hero being a playboy then wondering who done it which I could of told them halfway in and it was too casual about sex. Attorney Quinn is suspect in murder of his lover who is Annabelle's cousin and she wants justice.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Romantic suspense as a genre appears to be a sexually explicit version of the pulp fiction that we used to categorise as "lurids". This account of the murders surrounding a philandering lawyer is racy in every sense Its pace makes it an easy read but I did not feel any affinity with any of the characters and never forgot that I was reading fiction. I found the experience nasty but I know that this appeals to some.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Slow so so reading
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Annabelle Vanderley is 34. Since she was 23 she has been the one to handle all the responsibility in her family. Her fiancee was in an accident and was paralyzed. For the last 11 years she has been alone taking care of him for the 9 years until his death and still taking care of her uncle and his two perverted children, Lulu and Wythe. At 28 Lulu is wild and selfish, Wythe is an abuser and even worse. But Annabelle loves her uncle and protects him from the truth about his children. So far I have enjoyed all the books I've read by this author. She keeps the action humming, throws in plenty of intrigue, and has interesting characters.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I find it hard to believe any woman would willingly accept a man as her love and lover after he had had an affair with her cousin. Human nature just doesn’t allow us to accept this.

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