![]() The first in the series was Deadly Love, then Deadly Pleasure, and now Deadly Affairs. ![]() His wife has been in Europe for 4 years and he is supporting her. Francesca Cahill and Rick Bragg work wonderfully together and are falling in love with each other though Rick is married. The steamy revelations that confront Francesca as she probes into the secrets of friends and family are genuinely intriguing, and just enough of them are left unresolved at the book's end to leave readers waiting eagerly for the series' next installment. Brenda Joyces ongoing 'Deadly' Series is wonderful. In contrast, Joyce excels at creating twists and turns in her characters' personal lives. The implausible crime (for example, how did the child's abductor-his father, an ineffectual socialite-get hold of the tip of an unidentified person's ear?) and its flimsy resolution are unsatisfying, even for a lighthearted book. ![]() Francesca jumps into crime-solving, and in the process moves from tentative friendship to passion with the dynamic but mysterious Bragg. ![]() Soon a series of cryptic notes begins to arrive, each more terrifying than the last. As a reluctant guest at a family ball, she meets New York's handsome, young, but feckless police commissioner, Rick Bragg, while unbeknownst to both of them, a young child is being abducted next door. Beautiful socialite Francesca Cahill is a determined bluestocking who prefers learning and good causes to society's dizzying whirl. Seasoned historical romance writer Brenda Joyce recently branched out into contemporary fiction with a new series (House of Dreams), written under the pseudonym B.D. ![]()
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