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When her
sister Lucy is brutally murdered, Lee Cates life changes forever. Not
only does
she lose her sister, but her life also becomes one of danger and
endless
questions. When evidence leads the Sheriff, who is Lee’s cousin Holden,
to a
disbarred lawyer who Lucy went home with the night of her murder, Lee
is
desperate to see him pay. But Jack McCall doesn’t seem like a man who
would
harm another person.
Lee wants
justice for her sister and the pain to end. Will Lee’s life ever have
the
normalcy it once was? With her best friend Wade wanting more than just
friendship, her sister’s son, Stevie now her responsibility, her
father’s frail
health and the accused killer appearing everywhere she is, Lee tries to
hold onto
her strength for those she loves. All
the while, Lee nears the breaking point by trying to be there for
everyone
else. Can Lee keep her family together, even as secrets unfold? How long will it be before night
kills once again?
Charlotte
Hughes pens a spine-tingling romantic suspense that engages her reader.
Night Kills is heavy on puzzles,
endless questions and the mystery of who the killer is. Ms. Hughes
takes
readers on a journey of second guesses. When one thinks they have it
all
figured out, they have to question themselves.
The
characters are all intriguing and fascinating. Lee is a magnificent
character
whose strength seems endless, but we see the real woman underneath it
all as we
witness the times she takes to grieve. While at times I questioned her
submission to have a relationship beyond friendship with Wade, I
understood her
confusion and her loneliness to believe they could be more than
friends. Holden
is a powerful hero who took his job as Sheriff seriously and at times
showed
who he really is as he deals with his own grief over losing his cousin.
Young
Stevie calls out to the mother in us all. Here we have a young man who
has been
through so much; we want to protect him as Lee does. There is so much
to
Stevie, the reader can’t help but understand his pain and we realize
that there
is more to this young man than we think as the story unfolds. Jack
McCall comes
off as an angry and inconsolable jerk at first. There is so much anger
within
him that it rolls off the pages. Here is another case of a “more than
meets the
eye” type of man. Just when you think you know him, you might find
yourself
second-guessing yourself.
Overall Night
Kills is a great suspenseful
tale, rife with questions, drama and powerful characters. However,
there were a
number of inconsistencies within the story that make a reader pause and
rethink a
few things that didn’t happen, or were spoken of too soon before they
actually did
happen. But the inconsistencies don’t
hinder
the true suspense or shock value of the story. Night
Kills is amazing and Ms. Hughes can weave a hell of a
tale to captivate her audience. This
author is on my ‘must have’ list…I recommend that she be on all readers
lists
to try again and again.
Reviewed by Tracey West
for The Road
to Romance
November 8th,
2004
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