Jayne Ann Krentz, Author Pocket Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-72854-0
The mystery surrounding an unsavory cult leader enlivens Krentz's ( Silver Linings ) latest contemporary romance. When psychic Irene Valentine is temporarily put out of commission by a fall down some stairs, her employee Jessie Benedict gleefully...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-72855-7
With bold style and a wicked sense of humor Krentz ( Sweet Fortune ) tells the story of Letty Thornquist, an Indiana librarian who heads for Seattle to run the sporting equipment company she has inherited. This threatens the plans of Thornquist Gear'
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author Pocket Books $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-72856-4
As personal assistant to octogenarian matriarch Justine Gilchrist, Katy Wade has spent years sorting out Gilchrist family problems; but now she pulls off a minor miracle: she persuades Justine's grandson Luke, a talented restaurant consultant who...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author Pocket Books $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-77871-2
The interplay of colorful characters adds pizzazz to a drab mystery in this romance between business consultant Caleb Ventress and his newest client, Serenity Makepeace, who is expanding her grocery store in the artists' community of Witt's End,...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-77873-6
ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY Jayne Ann Krentz. Pocket, $6.50 ISBN 0-671-77873-0. The director of a Seattle charity and a scientific consultant attempt a no-frills affair. (Jan.)
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author Pocket Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-31268-8
An action-packed plot and a charming heroine who sports her share of modern neuroses may cajole readers into forgiving Krentz ( The Golden Chance ) for a happy ending that's a real clunkerstet/rl : the heroine must give up her home and career so...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author Pocket Books $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-52308-4
Bestselling author Krentz (Sharp Edges) once again displays her expertise in contemporary romance thrillers. As in most of her fiction, an attractive hero and heroine are set up as antagonists, then fall in love. Here she pits Jasper Sloan,...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author Pocket Books $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-671-52306-0
When hotel magnate J.L. Trask returns to Avalon, Ariz., to open his magnificent new resort, art expert Alexa Chambers and the other locals in this New Age town suspect he's come, after 12 years, to avenge his father's death. Trask, convinced that...
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Jayne Ann Krentz. Putnam, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15787-5
Bestseller Krentz (Fired Up) describes a world where people will kill to get their hands on a book, but this disappointing series starter is unlikely to inspire such fervor. Abby Radwell, a rare book dealer with paranormal talents, likes to keep her
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Jayne Ann Krentz. Putnam, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15895-7
Krentz returns to the world of her sexy psi investigators in a strong sequel to Copper Beach (2012). Judson Coppersmith’s innate psychic gifts allow him to detect resonance from violent events and sense the emotions of a killer’s mind. Gwen Frazier...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author . Putnam $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-399-14792-0
Sparks fly between a sexually repressed college librarian and a handyman venture capitalist while they attempt to hunt down a killer who possesses the ability to make murder look like suicide in this tepid romantic thriller from veteran author...
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Jayne Ann Krentz. Putnam, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-16512-2
Summer River is a small town in the middle of Northern California’s wine country. This peaceful, serene spot is tucked away from the hustle and bustle of larger cities. In this return to romantic suspense, bestseller Krentz (Wildest Dreams: Velvet...
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Jayne Ann Krentz. Putnam, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-16513-9
The always reliable Krentz (River Road) pairs up a traumatized woman with a helpful millionaire in this solid romantic thriller. After Grace Elland’s boss, Sprague Witherspoon, doesn’t turn up for work, his worried staff deputizes her to visit his...
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Jayne Ann Krentz. Berkley, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-17448-3
In bestselling author Krentz’s gripping new romantic thriller, hotel heiress Madeline Chase returns from Arizona to the spooky abandoned Aurora Point Hotel, on one of the San Juan Islands of Washington State, to find the caretaker dying from a head...
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Jayne Ann Krentz. Berkley, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-17449-0
With this slow-paced book, Krentz (Secret Sisters) launches a romantic suspense series set in Seattle, where Max Cutler, a former profiler turned PI, moved to start his life over after burning out on the job. While investigating the mysterious death
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Jayne Ann Krentz. Berkley, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-58527-2
A plethora of subplots unnecessarily complicates a convincing romance in this standalone contemporary romantic thriller from bestseller Krentz (When All the Girls Have Gone). After the mysterious death of eccentric artist and cult survivor Hannah...
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Jayne Ann Krentz. Berkley, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-58529-6
Krentz’s formulaic and lackluster third Cutler, Sutter, and Salinas romantic thriller (after Promise Not to Tell) follows hypnotist Winter Meadows as she gets sucked into cold-case investigator Jack Lancaster’s quest to find Quinton Zane, the...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author Pocket Books $23 (352p) ISBN 978-0-671-52419-7
Two disillusioned yuppies fall off the fast-track and into each others arms in this quirky romantic suspense novel from the ever-popular Krentz (Absolutely, Positively, etc.) Elias Winters, a well-known Pacific Rim wheeler-dealer, spent years...
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The second installment of Krentz's Harte-Madison trilogy (following Eclipse Bay) attempts to close the rift that formed several generations ago between the prosperous Hartes and the reckless Madisons. Lillian Harte plans to give up her computer...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author . Jove $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-515-13341-7
The final installment in Krentz's Eclipse Bay trilogy (Dawn in Eclipse Bay, etc.) centers around thriller writer Nick Harte, the handsome scion of one of the tiny town's most prominent families. In the two years since the death of his wife,...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author . Putnam $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-14938-2
If Krentz's newest thriller doesn't send your pulse racing, dial your cardiologist's number. With more than 30 bestsellers under her belt, Krentz (Smoke in Mirrors; Uneasy Alliance) is primed for another roaring success with this...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author . Putnam $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15073-9
Zoe Luce, psychic interior decorator, has finally settled down to domestic life in Whispering Springs, Ariz., with private investigator Ethan Truax after their tempestuous courtship in Krentz's previous romantic thriller, Light in Shadow
....
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author . Putnam $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-15222-1
Isabel Wright, a Belvedere Center for Sleep Research analyst and Level Five lucid dreamer, meets the man of her dreams in bestseller Krentz's (Truth or Dare
, etc.) romantic thriller. When Isabel's boss, Martin Belvedere, is found dead in...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author . Putnam $24.95 (401p) ISBN 978-0-399-15305-1
Krentz's latest fast-paced, well-plotted romantic thriller takes place in the tiny Napa Valley village of Dunster—perhaps named after the Amanda Quick heroine Emma Dunster. A mysterious e-mail from a childhood friend, Pamela Webb, draws...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author . Putnam $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15373-0
This spirited paranormal romance is the latest in Krentz's Arcane Society series (which includes some novels, like the recent Second Sight
, written as Amanda Quick). Clare Lancaster, like her parents and grandparents, is a member of the...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author . Putnam $24.95 (359p) ISBN 978-0-399-15445-4
At the opening of Krentz's disappointing latest featuring the Arcane Society—a covert organization devoted to paranormal research—costume shop owner Raine Tallentyre hears voices: in her deceased aunt's home in Shelbyville,...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author . Putnam $24.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-399-15521-5
A heroine who can see dark energy flashes in a villain’s aura and a hero who can squelch villainous thoughts before they’re put into action go to paradise to find a murderer, but find love, sex and a nest of drug-enhanced evildoers...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author . Putnam $25.95 (353p) ISBN 978-0-399-15596-3
In Krentz's paranormal Arcane Society series, she bounces from contemporary romantic thriller (Running Hot
) to steampunk historicals (Perfect Poison
, as Amanda Quick). This trilogy kickoff concerns the present-day descendents of Nicholas...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author Pocket Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-77870-5
In her first hardcover under her own name (she published Deception under the Amanda Quick name last year), bestselling romancer Krentz spins a glib, breezy tale about dashing art collector Max Fortune and earnest, fey innkeeper Cleopatra Robbins,...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author Jove Books $7.99 (346p) ISBN 978-0-515-12801-7
Jove has led Krentz (aka Amanda Quick) to a paperback romance trilogy about love and family in seaside places. This first volume sets up the feud between the Hartes and the no-account but very sexy Madison clan. Hannah Harte, a well-organized...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author Pocket Books $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-52310-7
Like the hand-blown objects she curates for the Leabrook Glass Museum in Seattle, sharp-witted Eugenia Swift is full of edges, an odd match for slow-moving, slow-talking, meat-and-potatoes PI Cyrus Chandler Colfax. From their first clash of wills...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-51692-5
Krentz's latest blends an offbeat romance with a murder mystery. (Sept.)
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-671-72857-1
Krentz ( Perfect Partners ) has turned out yet another satisfactory foray into the commingled worlds of business and romance, though its hero, Oliver Rain, is created from a patchwork of cliches: a ``dangerous predator'' with ``iron-clad self-control
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author, Jayne Castle, Author Berkley Publishing Group $15 (416p) ISBN 978-0-425-18477-6
Readers who like their tales romantic, suspenseful and spiced with ""a paranormal twist"" will welcome Harmony, which includes the 2000 novel After Dark and the 1999 novella ""Bridal Jitters"" by bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz writing as...
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Jayne Ann Krentz writing as Jayne Castle. Jove, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-0-515-14988-3
Though billed as SF, the flimsy conclusion of the Looking Glass trilogy (after April 2011's Quicksilver, bylined Amanda Quick) reads more like paranormal romantic suspense. Charlotte Knight's aura-reading psi talent is of such limited use that she...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author, Jayne Castle, Author . Jove $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-515-13694-4
This imaginative follow-up to Castle's sci-fi novel After Dark
(2000) revisits the futuristic world of Harmony, a planet discovered when an energy field in space opened, providing a gate between Earth and several other inhabitable worlds. The...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author, Eileen Wilks, Author, Julie Beard, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (356p) ISBN 978-0-425-17129-5
The lead story in this Halloween-themed collection by bestselling author Krentz (Absolutely, Positively) is Castle's ""Bridal Jitters,"" a futuristic romance about a ghost-hunter and a para-archeologist who consider entering into an ""MC,"" or...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author, Joyce Bean, Read by , read by Joyce Bean. Brilliance Audio $32.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58788-705-5
Audio reviews reflect PW's assessment of the audio adaptation of a book and should be quoted only in reference to the audio version.FictionLIGHT IN SHADOWJayne Ann Krentz, read by Joyce Bean. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, seven cassettes, 10 hrs.
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author, Claire Zion, Editor Pocket Star Books $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-77872-9
A corporate executive and a Seattle innkeeper search for missing paintings in this PW bestseller. (Sept.)
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author, Claire Zion, Editor Pocket Books $7.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67623-0
Krentz ( Gift of Gold ) concocts a breezy, funny tale of love conquering all. Philadelphia Fox, do-gooder and professional social worker, bristles when she unexpectedly inherits substantial holdings in a major electronics company jointly owned by...
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Jayne Ann Krentz, Author, Claire Zion, Editor Pocket Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-51691-8
Krentz (Grand Passion) sends romance speeding down the new information highway when struggling young Seattle businesswoman Desdemona Wainwright meets reclusive super-rich computer genius Sam Stark. Hired to cater Stark's wedding reception, Desdemona
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Jayne Ann Krentz. Berkley, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0643-7
Krentz (Untouchable) leads readers into an immersive, atmospheric world in the romantic suspense novel that opens her Fogg Lake trilogy. Following a mysterious occurrence known as “the Incident,” the inhabitants of the sleepy town of Fogg Lake...
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Jayne Ann Krentz. Berkley, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-1-984806-81-9
Bestseller Krentz brings the goods with the second paranormal romantic suspense novel of her Fogg Lake series (after The Vanishing). Psychic Sierra Raines has a lot to prove in her career after she is unfairly dismissed from her job at a prestigious
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Jayne Ann Krentz. Berkley, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-33775-2
Bestseller Krentz wraps up her Fogg Lake trilogy (after All the Colors of Night) in dazzling fashion with this paranormal tour de force. Seattle private investigator Olivia LeClair has just escaped from the Speed Dating Killer with the help of a...
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Jayne Ann Krentz. Berkley, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-33782-0
What’s going on at the Carnelian Sleep Institute in the quiet college town of Carnelian, Calif.? That’s the question at the heart of this enticing romantic suspense novel and Lost Night Files series launch from bestseller Krentz (Lightning in a...
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