Book Review: Get a Clue

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

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Jill Shalvis
Class/Genre:   Romance   Mystery   Romantic Suspense   Police Procedural
Brava, Sep 2005, $14.00, 320 pp.

Irate that her fiancé Dean left her at the altar, Breanne Mooreland goes on their honeymoon anyway so that she can run up charges on the rat’s credit card. She takes her vibrator with her knowing that gave her more thrills than Dean ever did. The trek in a snow storm to the cabin in the Sierras is hellish, but she makes it to her destination only to find a naked stud in her shower.

San Francisco battle fatigued police vice squad detective Cooper Scott picks up the vibrator that the woman who ruined his shower dropped. He needs this vacation so he refuses to allow an angry beautiful woman spoil his time off. Besides with the storm there is no other lodging available. They split the bed in half; during the night both dreams of hot sex with the other. As he tries to prove he is a nice guy who wants sex with her, Breanne trips over a corpse. Snowbound, Cooper investigates wondering who amongst the zany staff is a killer although he prefers to investigate the body of his roommate.

GET A CLUE is a terrific police procedural romantic suspense as Cooper works the homicide as best he can in accordance with procedures. The romance between the recently burned Breanne and the burned out Cooper is deftly handled as he struggles to get her to believe he will not just leave (not that he can with the weather) once they have sex. The eccentric support cast seems like escapees from a loony farm, but in a wacky way enhance the two subplots. If they do not know already, fans will GET A CLUE that Jill Shalvis is a talented writer.

Harriet Klausner

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