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Double Play
Detective Jack McQuinn sets out to find the truth surrounding the disappearance of a woman he met, and fell in love with, online, an investigation that leads him into a dangerous game of betrayal, desire, and murder where nothing is what it seems. Original.
341 pages, Paperback
First published August 24, 2005
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June 21, 2018
When he met her online, she was a woman living in daily fear of her husband’s chilling, systematic abuse. But she had a plan, a place to go, and someone to go with. That was her last message before signing off forever.
Elizabeth Harper vanished while hiking alone in Hawaii’s remote Kahana Valley State Park. There was no body, no evidence to suggest what had happened ... until Detective Jack McQuinn discovered she was the same woman he’d counseled online, a beauty whose coolly detached surgeon husband already spoke of her in the past tense. Had Dr. Richard Harper murdered his wife, then set up her disappearance? Or had Elizabeth faked her own, death to escape him?
Then Dr. Harper’s body was allegedly ID at the site of a fatal car crash, the case was closed on his wife disaparence, and Jack McQuinn turned in his badge.
He was headed for New Mexico, a search for two people who’d disappeared into thin air, a woman he never forget, and a deadly ...
Elizabeth Harper vanished while hiking alone in Hawaii’s remote Kahana Valley State Park. There was no body, no evidence to suggest what had happened ... until Detective Jack McQuinn discovered she was the same woman he’d counseled online, a beauty whose coolly detached surgeon husband already spoke of her in the past tense. Had Dr. Richard Harper murdered his wife, then set up her disappearance? Or had Elizabeth faked her own, death to escape him?
Then Dr. Harper’s body was allegedly ID at the site of a fatal car crash, the case was closed on his wife disaparence, and Jack McQuinn turned in his badge.
He was headed for New Mexico, a search for two people who’d disappeared into thin air, a woman he never forget, and a deadly ...
December 26, 2015
I see many reviews have listed this as a very disappointing romance, I don't agree. I thought it was a pretty good suspenseful thriller with the romance as the icing on the cake.
It didn't start out as a romance, but as a more of a domestic abuse story that escalated into something very scary and in some cases true and the romance however far fetched was a nice touch.
Having read this book more then once, I already knew what was going on. I remember though the mystery of it when I read it for the first time. I think its a very well written story and I liked the plot.
I liked how our heroine was able to pick herself up and keep fighting. I like the added surprise that the writer gives us when she introduces another young lady into the story.
I love Jack, the way the writer catches his short comings and his love, however farfetched they may seem to us. I think he made a great hero in this story.
Our villian was truely twisted and it would have been interesting to find out more of his past and what made him the way he was, as its obvious from the glimpses we the readers were given, it was his past that twisted him.
All the little extras were nice, too. Our heroines adopted family, the irony that she and the villian were both raised in the foster care system. Kona and Kokopelli, altough small parts, they added a nice touch as well. I like knowing that Trini was not completely written out of the story either, even though her part was very small as well.
I think it was a really great book, I enjoyed it immensely and would reccomend it for people who enjoy thrillers with the added plus of romance.
It didn't start out as a romance, but as a more of a domestic abuse story that escalated into something very scary and in some cases true and the romance however far fetched was a nice touch.
Having read this book more then once, I already knew what was going on. I remember though the mystery of it when I read it for the first time. I think its a very well written story and I liked the plot.
I liked how our heroine was able to pick herself up and keep fighting. I like the added surprise that the writer gives us when she introduces another young lady into the story.
I love Jack, the way the writer catches his short comings and his love, however farfetched they may seem to us. I think he made a great hero in this story.
Our villian was truely twisted and it would have been interesting to find out more of his past and what made him the way he was, as its obvious from the glimpses we the readers were given, it was his past that twisted him.
All the little extras were nice, too. Our heroines adopted family, the irony that she and the villian were both raised in the foster care system. Kona and Kokopelli, altough small parts, they added a nice touch as well. I like knowing that Trini was not completely written out of the story either, even though her part was very small as well.
I think it was a really great book, I enjoyed it immensely and would reccomend it for people who enjoy thrillers with the added plus of romance.
October 6, 2007
I bought this to read while I was staying with my dad in the hospital after he had a heart attack. It sucked.
February 5, 2009
Very boring book. The first halfwas good, but I skimmed over the last half of it, it just dragged on. A very hohum, formulaic romance.
January 7, 2016
This was a great book. Definitely keeps your attention. You do not want to put it down. I read it in a day.
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