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Slightly Shady
Written by Amanda Quick
Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Amanda Quick, best-selling author of Regency-era romances, has won many awards for her works including the New York Times best-selling Wicked Widow. Each work transports fans into a richly detailed world of intrigue and desire. There are now over 25 million copies of her books in print. Besieged by gambling debts, a desperate gentleman purchases a diary as a tool for blackmail. But he does not live to carry out his plans. He is murdered, and the diary is stolen. Now Tobias March, discrete private investigator, has been hired to find the incriminating diary. Tobias is familiar with danger, but when his inquiries lead him to the beautiful entrepreneur Lavinia Lake, his emotions are sidetracked. The attraction that grows between Tobias and Lavinia is framed in the sparkling dialog and wit that have attracted millions of fans to Amanda Quick's novels. Superbly narrated by Audie Awarda-winner Barbara Rosenblat, Slighty Shady is a delicious tale filled with sophistication and suspense, humor and passion.
Author
Amanda Quick
Amanda Quick is the pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz, the author, under various pen names, of more than fifty New York Times bestsellers; there are more than 35 million copies of her books in print. She lives in Seattle.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I am listening to this in the audio format. (my traveling book) So far Lavinia and Tobias are teaming up to catch a blackmailer, and bring an end to his criminal gang. The two have discovered that they both are targets.Lavinia and Tobias are investigating an erotic wax museum. The female figures appear to resemble prostitutes that have gone missing. The male figure interacting in different sexual acts with the various female figures appears to be made from the same model. Who is he? The story progresses as Lavinia and Tobias discover a mutual passion for each other. After a suspect turns up dead, his wife (Constantine) is revealed as the murderer. She killed the women who her husband Neville had previously entertained as his mistresses. Now believing that he might leave her to be with the widow of the 'Blue Gang,' assuming power as head criminal mastermind, she murders him. She is on the verge of killing Lavinia who has discovered her crimes when Tobias shows up and she is subdued. In the end Constantine is committed to an asylum for the insane. Lavinia and Tobias will continue to work as investigators, after discovering they enjoy their partnership. It is mentioned in the end that although the job is frustrating, there is a remedy for the frustraton. Although temporary the remedy can be applied as often as needed. (love is the drug) *** several erotic scenes throughout involving communion of the two ... well-written ... sensual & satifying.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not sure if I want to read others in the series. The heroine is a bit obnoxious.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Sharp tongued and shrewish, widow Lavina Lake is not the most appealing of heroines. Her relationship with private investigator Tobias March is prickly and fraught with raised voices from the very beginning when he lays waste to her shop in Rome. Reacquainted in London, the pair are thrown together in the course of a desperate search for a serial killer with the odd habit of modeling wax into threats.Not my favorite of Quick's characters - Lavina comes off as a rude, pushy woman, and Tobias a bit too long-suffering.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Normally, I really enjoy Quick's books, but this one just felt phoned in - the relationships and emotions felt contrived. I had been reading everything she published for awhile and about when this came out, I stopped. I got back into Quick through the Arcane Society novels which I have been really enjoying - this actually felt like a bit of a test run for those. I can't decide if I should continue with the Lake/March novels or not - I may try one more. This makes two disappointing romances in a row from authors I've previously enjoyed (Nora Roberts was the other). I hope whatever I read next is better!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Starting with the destruction of Lavinia Lake's antiquities shop by a Mr Tobias March who is in pursuit of a killer and determined to save Lavinia from possibly herself. The two end up teaming up in London and find themselves sharing adventures and terribly attracted to each other.It's a fun read, nothing to get terribly excited about and if you scratch the surface there are a lot of historical inaccuracies lurking but for it's type it isn't bad.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Two Minute Review for “Slightly Shady” by Amanda QuickTobias March is a private investigator who runs afoul of Lavinia Lake. This cantankerous little lady believes he is out to ruin her life. I would have loved to have listened to them fight. Every conversation was smart, snappy and with a ready to rumble attitude. I really like the energy of the novel. Yes, it is a romance but it also had elements of an old time mystery. No forensics, blood work or DNA evidence required.