A NIGHT OWL REVIEWS BOOK REVIEW | Reviewed by: Valerie
Blood and Bone starts out with a chilling meeting between a crime writer and convicted murder setting readers on the edge of their seat from the first eerie meeting to the last page. Shayne Reynold's is a heroine with some issues, though they don't get in the way of her doing her job, writing about the murder of Robert Anderson's wife and son twenty five years ago. However, Robert drops a bombshell on Shayne and even though he confessed and served the time Robert now says he is innocent. Planning to travel to Dark Water the next morning, Shayne is immediately embroiled in several plots to stop the book and stop her from digging further into the past. Des Anderson was two when his father confessed to the murders and has always believed that Robert was guilty of the crime and it was sheer luck that he and his older sister Julia were not killed that night. Des has lived in the shadow of the crime his whole life, with a controlling grandmother who wields power over her family and all that they do, he has not had much success in starting his own life. He doesn't want the book to be written, but unlike the rest of his family, Des has a core of goodness that makes him compassionate and protective of Shayne. Shayne and Des are drawn into an eerie plot with several machiavellian characters who seem to be out to get them both. As they unravel the past and try to figure out exactly what did happen twenty five years ago both Des and Shayne find themselves becoming more and more attracted to eachother. An attraction that goes further than lust, and is slowly building into something bigger as they learn to trust eachother. This book is a thrilling adventure to unravel the mystery of who committed the murders twenty-five years ago and why if Robert Anderson was innocent he would have confessed to the crime and served time for it.
Oct 14, 2011 | B005NKEK26
5 = Rare - Top Pick | 4.5 = I Loved It - Top Pick | 4 = Good Solid Read
3.5 = Enjoyable | 3 Stars = OK - Needs a few changes | 2 Stars = It just didn't click / DNF
Book Blurb for Blood and Bone
The deeper they dig into the past, the closer they come to a killer.
Crime writer Shayne Reynolds is looking for the next book that’ll get her out of her parents’ basement and on track to rebuilding her life. She’s found it in Robert Anderson, a confessed murderer who’s out on parole. Something’s never added up about that case.
From the moment she sets foot in Dark Water, nothing goes as planned. Anderson’s family wants her to drop the story—especially surviving son Des. A man who ignites sizzling heat even as he stands firmly in her way.
Laboring under his father’s crushing legacy and his grandmother’s iron resolve to get rid of the nosy writer at any cost, Des struggles to save the self-destructive sister who once saved him. There’s something honest and forthright about Shayne, though, that tempts him to help her get to the truth. Even if it means double-crossing his powerful grandmother.
Despite their resolve to keep it strictly business, sexual sparks quickly set fire to tangled emotions. And threads of a fragile bond that someone with a vendetta could use to weave their death shroud…
Warning: This story contains a feisty writer, a sexy younger man and a mystery with enough twists and turns to cause vertigo.
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