Books by Julie Garwood and Complete Book Reviews
Julie Garwood, Author . Pocket $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-03401-6
After last year's bestselling Heartbreaker, her first venture into contemporary romantic suspense, Garwood turns out another of the same genre with equally crowd-pleasing results. Set alternately in posh New Orleans and in a swampy Louisiana...
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Julie Garwood, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-74420-5
Princess Alesandra (of some unspecified country) has been happily tucked away in a convent, but in 1820 the wicked General Ivan indicates that he has designs on the princess: if he marries her, he can take over the kingdom. Alesandra's guardian, the
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Julie Garwood, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-671-87098-0
This romance set in mid-19th-century Montana spent two weeks on PW's bestseller list. (Feb.)
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Julie Garwood. Dutton, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-95225-1
Bestseller Garwood (Shadow Music) turns out another high-quality romantic thriller. St. Louis trauma surgeon Ellie Sullivan walks in on a failed gun-dealer bust, saves an FBI agent, and quickly becomes more than friendly with another agent, Max...
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Julie Garwood. Dutton, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-95286-2
In this intrigue-laden, passion-filled romantic thriller, beautiful IRS attorney Olivia Mackenzie is committed to making the most of her life, alone. Though she has recovered from her childhood illness, Olivia won’t let anyone get close enough to...
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Julie Garwood. Dutton, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-95445-3
Garwood goes off the rails with this unintentionally creepy sequel to Hotshot, starring a saccharine rich girl and the controlling, possessive man she’s inexplicably loved since she was a child. Cordelia Kane always believed that her mother died in...
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Julie Garwood, Author Pocket Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74422-9
Set in 13th-century England and Scotland, this rollicking adventure is among Garwood's ( The Bride ) most enjoyable. The news that her despicable husband is dead has left beautiful 16-year-old Lady Johanna both wealthy and available. Wicked King...
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Julie Garwood, Author Viking $23 (497p) ISBN 978-0-671-87097-3
In 1879, British lawyer Harrison MacDonald is on a mission to find the long-lost daughter of his employer, the powerful industrialist Lord Elliott. His search takes him from London to the majestic mountains of Montana, where he finds Mary Rose...
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Julie Garwood, Author Pocket Books $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-671-03299-9
""Bless me Father, for I will sin."" In her first contemporary suspense thriller, Garwood, better known for best-selling romantic fiction (Ransom; the Clayborne Brides trilogy; etc.), explodes out the narrative gate, but delivers more romance than...
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Julie Garwood, Author Ballantine $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-45382-2
Regan Hamilton Madison is perfect. She's gorgeous (""a knockout with those full, luscious lips, to say nothing about the soft curves and long legs"") but doesn't seem to be aware of it. She's rich (her family owns a hotel empire), but as head of her
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Julie Garwood, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Pocket Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-74421-2
Ever since they met as children at the annual summer festival on the border of their two countries, Judith Hampton of England has been fast friends with Frances Catherine Kirkaldy of Scotland. Despite the enmity between the two lands in this period (
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Julie Garwood, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Pocket Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-70250-2
This bland romance, which borders on formulaic, recycles a few elements from Garwood's earlier novel Guardian Angel . In 1802, in an attempt to bring peace between two warring families, the king arranges a marriage between the 14-year-old...
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Julie Garwood, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Pocket Books $22 (400p) ISBN 978-0-671-87095-9
The opening line of Garwood's ( Saving Grace ) latest novel, ``The vultures were gathering in the vestibule,'' aptly sets the tone for the machinations to follow. These ``vultures'' (of 1868 vintage) are the greedy relatives of Lady Esther Stapleton
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Julie Garwood, Author, Garwood, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Pocket Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-67006-1
Garwood fails here to integrate romance and mystery elements as effectively as she did in The Bride. There's too much heavy breathing in the book's first half, too many convoluted political intrigues in the second. The year is 1815. The Marquess of...
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Julie Garwood. Berkley, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-0-593-54629-1
Bestseller Garwood (Wired) entices with this high-intensity romantic suspense novel. Recent college graduate Grace MacKenna is in Boston to celebrate her sister’s husband’s parents’ anniversary when she stumbles into an active crime scene. While...
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