The Calamity Janes: Gina & Emma
Sheryl Woods
Mira, May 26 2015, $7.99
ISBN: 9780778317784
“To Catch a Thief.” In Manhattan, Tuscany Café co-owner Gina
Petrillo is stunned by the court order.
Her partner Roberto Rinaldi embezzled the funds their investors sunk
into the Upper East Side restaurant.
Fuming as his mother is one of the victims, Attorney Rafe O'Donnell
turns angry when he learns Petrillo filed a delay on submitting her deposition
so that she could go home to Winding River, Wyoming. He follows her expecting her to be guilty and
also leading him to Rinaldi. Instead he
falls in love; as does she.
“The Calamity Janes.” Denver-based lawyer Emma
Rogers returns to Winding River for a
class reunion. When a domestic dispute
turns ugly, Emma agrees to defend the accused though that means more time not
spent with her six year old daughter Caitlyn.
Reporter Ford Hamilton covers the murder trial, but finds Emma very
uncooperative in several ways including those of the heart.
Published in 2001, these
reprints of the third and fourth Calamity Jane novels (see The Calamity Janes: Cassie and
Karen) are engaging romances. Although “To Catch a Thief” contains too many sidebars slowing
down the plot; The Calamity Janes provides an intense look at domestic abuse.
Harriet Klausner
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