Pour sauver mon enfant, Course-poursuite

by Paula Detmer Riggs, Judy Christenberry

Pour sauver mon enfant de Paula Detmer Riggs :
Nous avons votre fille. Faites acquitter Santalucci, si vous voulez la revoir vivante. Lorsqu'elle reçoit ce message anonyme, la juge Amanda Wainwright sent la terreur s'emparer d'elle. Les mafieux du coin ont osé s'en prendre à Jessica, sa fille de sept ans, dans le seul but qu'elle relâche Santalucci, le parrain local ! Révoltée autant que tiraillée entre la peur qu'elle ressent et sa foi en la justice, Amanda se résout à demander son aide à Devlin Buchanan, un ancien agent du FBI. Un homme qu'elle a côtoyé par le passé et qu'elle n'apprécie guère, mais qui, elle le sait, s'est juré de tuer Santalucci de ses propres mains...

Course-poursuite de Judy Christenberry : Qui est vraiment Steve Carter ? Et doit-elle le croire quand il affirme faire partie de la police, et être poursuivi par des collègues corrompus ? Barbara Randall n'a guère le temps de s'appesantir sur ses interrogations quand, blessé par balle, Steve entre chez elle et lui ordonne de l'aider. Décidée à faire confiance à son instinct, qui lui souffle que cet homme émouvant et visiblement passionné par son métier lui dit la vérité, Barbara accepte de le cacher. Sans se douter un seul instant qu'elle vient de se lancer dans l'aventure la plus dangereuse de sa vie...

Genres: Category Romance

439 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1989

About the author

Paula Detmer Riggs was born in 1944 and earned a BS from the Miami University in 1965. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America and Novelists Inc.. She's worked professionally as a ember of the writing faculty of San Diego State University, Long Beach State University, and Irvine State University. Paula Detmer Riggs has written for Silhouette Desire and Silhouette Intimate Moments.

Reviews

[Saly · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, I've been on an oldie kick recently and with old books there come moments when you want to smack the characters and for me it was the heroine I wanted to smack. She is a 35 year old widow with a 7 year old daughter and respectable judge for the past five years and just when she is about to try the biggest case of her career (a mob trial), her daughter is kidnapped by the man who is to go on trial so she contacts a FBI guy she knows who redirects her to the hero, a man who the world considers dead, a man who was in her courtroom a few years back, on trial for using excessive force.

So, she tracks him down in Mexico, now my problem was that she was so judgy she needed help yet couldn't put down her morals. The hero comes back to help her, moving in with her as her bodyguard and when he finds a lead to her daughter she of course has to interfere instead of leaving it up to the experts. I mean her daughter is missing, but I didn't see the urgency in her instead she starts falling for the hero and still keeps sticking to her moral lines.

The hero doesn't think he fits into the heroine's perfect world, whereas he knows the dark side and seems to thrive in it, the heroine comes from a different world but despite my quibbles I enjoyed the book.