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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780425211083
ISBN number: 0425211088
Label: Berkley
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Page Count: 336
Printing Date: August 01, 2006
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Bailey Wells is the personal assistant to bestselling true crime author Paul Ellis. She left her small town behind to go work for him, but now his work is taking her right back home. When Bailey finds Paul's wife murdered in their new home, suspicions arise.
Police detective Steve Burke is called in to investigate the case. Bailey makes an easy suspect. She found the body, and there are those who say her relationship with her boss isn't so professional. Steve isn't sure what to believe just yet, but he knows that he needs to curb his attraction to her before it clouds his judgement.
Clues start falling into Steve's lap, a little too easily. It soon becomes apparent that someone is setting Bailey up for the fall. Trying to find the reason behind Mrs. Ellis' murder will drudge up a mystery from the past and someone who's willing to kill to keep the secret safe.
HOME BEFORE MIDNIGHT is wonderful work of romantic suspense from author Virginia Kantra. I love the edge-of-your-seat action as you're trying to figure out who did it and why. The sexual tension between Bailey and Steve is excellent. They're drawn to each other, but they know they must keep their distance. The double mystery aspect of this mystery makes it all the more exciting. Be sure to get a copy of this one today.
This review was originally posted on The Internet Book Database. [...]
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Virginia Kantra is definitely an author to watch!
Bailey Wells left her hometown of Stokesville, North Carolina to hit it big in the literary world. She returns several years later, not as a successful author, but as an assistant to a true crime writer. Paul Ellis has returned to his wife's hometown to write a book about a gruesome crime that happened over 20 years ago when a 16 year old boy killed his grandmother, his mother, and his sister. They never could have guessed the lengths someone would go to keep the secret of what really happened that night.
When Paul's wife, Helen, turns up dead in their pool, Detective Steve Burke immediately suspects Bailey. He can see that there is something going on between Bailey and Paul and he is surprised by the dissapointment he feels. The more Burke interviews Bailey and Paul, the more he likes Bailey and the less he likes Paul. Soon it becomes clear that there is more at play than just the murder of Helen Stokes-Ellis.
While I absolutely loved the book, the reason I gave it four stars was because it was never made clear who actually killed Helen. I felt like the author killed Helen off specifically so Burke and Bailey could meet, then just let that storyline dribble away with no real resolution to what happened. Aside from that, the relationship between Bailey and Burke and Burke and his daughter, Gabrielle was fabulous.
I definitely recommend this book!
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Virginia Kantra's HOME BEFORE MIDNIGHT kept me up past midnight. It is a can't-put-down novel--smart, sexy, suspenseful and satisfying. Kantra skillfully intertwines a decades-old mystery with a shocking present-day murder in a small Southern town and creates an appealing, multi-dimensional hero and heroine to lead the reader through the twists and turns. Definitely one of her best.
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Bailey Wells left her small hometown of Stokesville, North Carolina hoping to become a sucess in the literary world, but for the past two years she has served as the research and editorial assistant to renowned mystery author Paul Ellis. Now her boss is leaving New York City to relocate in the hometown of his wife Helen, also Stokesville. Half in love with her employer, Bailey agrees to accompany them when they move to the south.
However, instead of a welcome homecoming, Bailey finds the murdered body of Helen floating in the pool of their new home. Local police detective, widower and single father of a preadolescent daughter Gabrielle, Steve Burke heads the investigation, but he immediately notices that Bailey is attracted to her employer as she tries to protect him. Though he wants Bailey, Steven remains professional as she is one of the two prime suspects, the spouse being the other, in what looks increasingly like a crime of passion. Unbeknownst to either of the pair someone wants the truth involving a 1987 homicide to remain buried and if more must die so be it.
HOME BEFORE MIDNIGHT is an entertaining small town police procedural amateur sleuth tale though some might quiver that Bailey is a pro with her research into criminology. The story line is filled with action, but is driven by the triangular relationship between the author, the cop, and the researcher. The whodunit is cleverly developed to insure that Bailey and Paul are the prime suspects, which leads to Steve struggling to control his desire for the woman. Fans will enjoy Virginia Kantra's fine regional romantic mystery.
Harriet Klausner
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