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The Eleventh Hour
DEAD MAN RUNNING...
Jack Devlin was on Death Row, convicted of murdering his beautiful socialite wife.
But the evidence in the sensational crime is all too cut and dried for Public Defender Eve Marchand—a strong advocate of abolishing the death penalty. It's an election year and she knows that the quick conviction looks good on the prosecutor's dcoket, but this is a case of life and death. When Jack escapes and contacts Eve, she's forced to make a decision that changes her life. Now they're both on the run, and their only hope is to find the real murderer before their time runs out.
Jack Devlin was on Death Row, convicted of murdering his beautiful socialite wife.
But the evidence in the sensational crime is all too cut and dried for Public Defender Eve Marchand—a strong advocate of abolishing the death penalty. It's an election year and she knows that the quick conviction looks good on the prosecutor's dcoket, but this is a case of life and death. When Jack escapes and contacts Eve, she's forced to make a decision that changes her life. Now they're both on the run, and their only hope is to find the real murderer before their time runs out.
379 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 1998
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Lynn Erickson
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Molly Swanton and Carla Peltonen were born in in Aspen, Colorado, U.S.A. on January 22 and September 12. In the late 60s, both newly returned from bumming around the world, they met in Aspen in the Red Onion, an Old West saloon. They were both new brides, wet behind the ears. It was several years later that they dreamed up Lynn Erickson, the pseudonym a combination of their husbands' names. They had read every romance put out in the early 70s and started saying, "We can do better than this." Well, they couldn't, but what the heck? The wrote two fat novels before we chanced onto an agent and made a sale. His first words to them: "The manuscript is flawed, but..."
They published their first novel as Lynn Erickson in 1980. Their early books were historical romances, full of blood and guts and murder, then they turned to contemporary women's suspense. "We've set almost all of our books in Colorado, especially in Aspen, a town where the truth is usually stranger than fiction. Aspen is a character in our books, not just a setting. We love to drop inside jokes about the quirks and fancies of our hometown. The scenery truly is glorious, the mountains magnificent, the skiing and hiking and fishing and horseback riding legendary. We cover the arts, too - the world-renowned music festival, the shops full of museum-quality paintings and sculptures. Southwestern art is big, of course: paintings and pottery and Navajo rugs."
Molly Swanton and Carla Peltonen were born in in Aspen, Colorado, U.S.A. on January 22 and September 12. In the late 60s, both newly returned from bumming around the world, they met in Aspen in the Red Onion, an Old West saloon. They were both new brides, wet behind the ears. It was several years later that they dreamed up Lynn Erickson, the pseudonym a combination of their husbands' names. They had read every romance put out in the early 70s and started saying, "We can do better than this." Well, they couldn't, but what the heck? The wrote two fat novels before we chanced onto an agent and made a sale. His first words to them: "The manuscript is flawed, but..."
They published their first novel as Lynn Erickson in 1980. Their early books were historical romances, full of blood and guts and murder, then they turned to contemporary women's suspense. "We've set almost all of our books in Colorado, especially in Aspen, a town where the truth is usually stranger than fiction. Aspen is a character in our books, not just a setting. We love to drop inside jokes about the quirks and fancies of our hometown. The scenery truly is glorious, the mountains magnificent, the skiing and hiking and fishing and horseback riding legendary. We cover the arts, too - the world-renowned music festival, the shops full of museum-quality paintings and sculptures. Southwestern art is big, of course: paintings and pottery and Navajo rugs."
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January 6, 2023
Stock characters. Predictable plot. Predictable and unrealistic plot "twists". Overall, a terrible book. But what can one expect from Harlequin? I got this book via Bookcrossing (check it out! www.bookcrossing.com) so I read it even though I didn't expect great things. It was amusing in the way an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie is good to kill time, but I can't recommend it by any means.
June 27, 2018
How in the heck could it just end?!?! I read close to 400 pages for that end?!? I would have given the book 5 stars even if I didn’t like the whole Gary/Donna thing that shouldn’t have even made it in the book! But that end? Nope, no way!!
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