Cold Hearts
Sharon Sala
Mira, Aug 25 2015, $7.99
ISBN 9780778318309
In Mystic, West Virginia, Melissa Sherman takes her car to Paul
Jackson’s garage for repair. Paul muses
to himself that he always liked Lissa who was his son Mack’s high school
girlfriend; thus he stays open late to repair her vehicle. After troubling auto parts dealer Freddie
Miller to stay open so that he can get what he needs to do the job; Paul
finishes the repair at eleven that evening.
Before he steps away from beneath the hydraulic lifted car; a friend
enters the garage. The newcomer releases
the lift dumping Lissa’s car onto Paul.
Mack comes home for his father’s funeral, but is stunned to learn that
Lissa’s car killed him and that the lift was not broken; someone murdered his
dad. The police focus on a 1980 DUI
tragedy as the motive since Paul is the second recent homicide victim (see Wild
Hearts) with ties to that three-decade old vehicular accident. At the same time, Mack and Lissa turn to each
other for solace while each looks back to the miscarriage that ended their
relationship.
The second entertaining Secrets And Lies
romantic suspense uses the same theme as its predecessor: a modern day homicide
police procedural tied to a cold case vehicular death and a contemporary second
chance romance. The storyline starts
somewhat slow; but once the cast is set, rotating viewpoints between several
players accelerates the plot into a tense hyperspeed mystery.
Harriet Klausner
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