Identical Stranger

by Alice Sharpe

When a detective finds the wrong missing woman, he’s faced with a deadly mystery of doppelgangers in this romantic suspense novel.Private investigator Jackson Travers swears he’s located his best friend’s missing wife, Sabrina Cromwell. But even if she looks identical to the woman in Jack’s photo, Sophie Sparrow is not Sabrina. In fact, she appears to have no connection to Sabrina at all. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t in trouble.When Sophie is nearly killed, Jack wonders if it’s a case of mistaken identity. Can he uncover the truth before Sophie—and her missing doppelganger—end up dead?

Genres: Romance, Harlequin

232 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 16, 2019

About the author

I was born in Sacramento, California. As a child, I wrote plays for the neighbor kids and invited their parents to performances. As I got older, I started my own family newspaper, handwritten and hand delivered, for the extortion price of 25 cents. Eventually, I moved into writing angst-ridden poems and journals – lots of them. Right after graduating from high school, I married the love of my life whom I met while walking on a beach in Northern California. We had two children, spent years building a house, juggling pets and living on sailboats. All the while, I wrote stories but I never attempted to sell them.

When the kids started Junior High, I started marketing my writing. When my short stories were turned down by mainstream women's magazines, my mother suggested I try a confession magazine. I sold my first story to them within two weeks. What a feeling of accomplishment! I walked on air for about a week! It took me almost two years to sell my next story, but after that, I went on to sell over two dozen to the various confession magazines. The experience of learning to get a story off the ground within a sentence or two was invaluable as was the connection I made with one of the editors. When she moved to a small book publisher, I sent her a completed manuscript which she bought. I wrote twenty books for her, mostly romances with a few mysteries thrown in. During this time, I learned about pacing, plot development and characterization. There is nothing a writer can do to improve their craft that trumps the actual setting of oneself in a chair and writing. Eventually I sold a manuscript to Silhouette. Now, forty books and many editors later, I've written for Avalon, Silhouette, Kensington, and Harlequin Intrigue I am also still married to the love of my life and our two children have given us three wonderful grandchildren.

Reviews

[Marti · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was pretty satisfying from the suspense, chemistry between characters, to the plot. I felt like towards the end there were a lot of suspects and then suddenly there was the culprit. I really liked how this book kept me guessing on who the culprit was. As cliche as the whole long lost, never knowing about each other identical twins thing was it still made this book a great read.

[Marlene · Rating 2 out of 5]

My bad for expecting any kind of explanation for what was happening I guess lol (1.5)

[Ash · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.25 stars

[Leslie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great complex story-line. Recommend giving it time to read, I got a little confused on the people so you’ll want to go a little slow when learning more about the new characters!

Written well, not who I thought at all! Stayed a mystery even as Jack started to search properties - glad he was at peace in the end about Lisa, tho be kinda nice to hear about the girls trip to see their grandfather and maybe what happened to the brothers “Danny & Reynard” lol 😂- Maybe.


Great overall - left me thinking for sure!