Smoke in Mirrors

Zusatztext “A well-rendered tale…A suspenseful journey into unexpected danger and romance.”— Seattle Post-Intelligencer   “Eerie antique mirrors! secret passages! and psychic contact contribute a haunting quality to Krentz’s enticing blend of suspense and top-notch romance.”— Booklist   “Written solidly! with a plot that puts the two protagonists in convincing peril from a number of directions…Entertaining…This is vintage Krentz.”— The Seattle Times   “ Smoke in Mirrors reads fast and will make you smile! wince! and sigh. What else could you want?”— The State (Columbia! S.C.)   Informationen zum Autor Jayne Ann Krentz is the author of more than fifty New York Times bestsellers. She has written contemporary romantic suspense novels under that name, as well as futuristic and historical romance novels under the pseudonyms Jayne Castle and Amanda Quick, respectively. There are more than 35 million copies of her books in print. Klappentext A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast—and died young. But her final scam—embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund—is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. The tainted money is stashed away in an offshore account for Leonora. And while she wants nothing to do with the cash, she discovers two other items in the safe-deposit box: a book about Mirror House—the place where Meredith engineered her final deception and a set of newspaper stories about an unsolved murder that occurred there thirty years ago. Now Leonora has an offer for Thomas Walker, another victim of Meredith's scams and seductions. She'll hand over the money—if he helps her figure out what's going on. Meredith had described Thomas as "a man you can trust.” But in a funhouse-mirror world of illusion and distortion, Leonora may be out of her league... Chapter One The present... A shifting of the light reflected in the mirror above the dresser was the only warning she had that she was not alone in the dead woman's apartment. Her hands went cold. The fine hair on the nape of her neck stirred as if she had been zapped with an electrical charge. Leonora straightened swiftly from the drawer she had been searching and spun around, a soft, pale pink cashmere sweater in her hands. Two junkyard dogs stood in the doorway of the bedroom. One of them was human. His broad shoulders filled a lot of the available space and cut off the view of the hall behind him. There was about him the deceptively relaxed, totally centered grace of the natural-born predator. Not an impulsive young hunter overeager to take down the first of the prey that bolts from cover, rather a jaded pro who prefers to pick and choose his targets. He had the face of a man who had done a lot of things in life the hard way and he also had the cold gray eyes to match. The ghost-gray beast at his heels had a lot in common with his companion. Not real big, but very solid. One of his ears was permanently bent, the result of a fight, no doubt. It was difficult to imagine this creature springing playfully in pursuit of a Frisbee. Probably tear the thing to shreds and eat the plastic raw. Both of the intruders looked dangerous but her intuition told her to keep her eyes on the man. She could not see his hands. They were thrust casually into the deep pockets of a charcoal-colored windbreaker. He wore the lightweight jacket open over a buttondown denim shirt and a pair of khaki trousers. His feet were shod in leather work boots. The boots looked large. Both man and beast were damp from the rain that misted this stretch of the southern California coast today. Each gave the impression that going for her throat would be no big deal. All in a morning's work. "Were you a friend of hers or did you just happen to hear that she was dead and decide to drop in ...

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A well-rendered tale A suspenseful journey into unexpected danger and romance. Seattle Post-Intelligencer 
Eerie antique mirrors, secret passages, and psychic contact contribute a haunting quality to Krentz s enticing blend of suspense and top-notch romance. Booklist
 
Written solidly, with a plot that puts the two protagonists in convincing peril from a number of directions Entertaining This is vintage Krentz. The Seattle Times
 
Smoke in Mirrors reads fast and will make you smile, wince, and sigh. What else could you want? The State (Columbia, S.C.)
 

Product details

• Authors: Jayne A. Krentz, Jayne Ann Krentz
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.10.2002
• EAN: 9780515133998
• ISBN: 978-0-515-13399-8
• No. of pages: 371
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 171 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Penguin Publishing Group
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature