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it poetic justice, . . or an education in obsession

Bookstore owner Veronica Archer is eager to oblige when sexy detective Jack Parker shows up at her shop, seeking help on the stalking case he's working.
Verses from Victorian erotica are being left for the victims, and Jack needs to interpret the cluesbefore someone gets hurt, Thankfully, Ronnie's an expert on naughty turnofthecentury prose, but if she's going to play teacher, Jack will have to be a dedicated student,

With her own love life stuck in Neutral, Ronnie's sensual studies have piqued her curiosity, and she wonders if reality can be as stimulating as fiction, She agrees to help Jack with his case, if he'll satisfy her wildest, most scandalous desiresa request Jack has no problem accommodating, But the closer they get to each other, the closer the stalker circles in, leaving Jack to question if Ronnie is merely a very skilled scholaror the key to something far more sinister.
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Silent Confessions was my second read by Julie Kenner, It's one of her older books that's on the shorter side, more the length of a Harlequin romance, It was actually published by Harlequin, but not in one of their specialized lines, I really like Ms. Kenner's writing style. It's straightforward and easy to read, Her love scenes are loaded with steam, probably on the order of a Harlequin Blaze, A couple are borderline erotic, but there are also several that are closeddoor and kind of glossed over, so I wouldn't really call this an erotic romance, just a very spicy one.
However, with the heroine being a student of erotica and the owner of a bookstore specializing in the genre, there's a lot of talk of historical erotic literature and art that very much piqued by curiosity.
That, in my estimation, is the hallmark of a good book, one that can teach me something new or stir my interest in a previously undiscovered topic, so overall, I had a really good time reading Silent Confessions.


Jack and Veronica are likable characters, He's a detective with the NYPD, working in the sex crimes division, He got into that specialty because of a family member who was raped, Ronnie, as I've mentioned, is a graduate student and the owner of a bookstore specializing in erotica, She also gives lectures and leads discussion of these books at her store, The store was recently broken into, but nothing of value was stolen, so the cops haven't made her case a priority, Jack, on the other hand, is working a case involving a stalker who leaves messages gleaned from erotic literature, The two meet when Ronnie goes to the police station to demand an update on her case, and Jack accidentally mistakes her for the erotica expert his partner lined up to help them on the case.
As it turns out Ronnie is far more wellversed in erotica then the purported expert, so after Jack figures out his faux pas and apologizes, she ends up helping him with his investigation by giving him private lessons in erotica that don't always involve reading.


Normally I'm not a big fan of quick hookups in romance, but here it worked beautifully for me, The only reason I can discern for that is that the author made me feel the chemistry and emotional connection between these two characters on a visceral level, so that I fully believed they were two halves of a whole that had always been meant for one another.
They just can't seem to get enough of each other, and they give their trust freely and implicitly from the start, Until they met, Ronnie had thought she was destined to only live vicariously through the sexual exploits of the authors whose works she read, and after a marriage gone bad, Jack thought he was having trouble trusting women, but with Ronnie all that changes.
For this reason, I had no trouble believing they made a great couple,

The main reason I decided to mark the book down a star is that I felt like the characterizations could have gone deeper, The author gives enough background information on Jack and Ronnie to make me feel like I knew them fairly well, but at the same time I would have liked to know more.
For instance, I don't recall any specific reasons being mentioned for Ronnie getting into the study of erotica, which is kind of an unusual field, It would have been nice if this had been explored a little more, Also, while reasons were given for Jack's chosen law enforcement specialty, I couldn't help feeling like I'd like to know more about how this incident affected him personally, and why at the end of the book, he's open to changing.
How did Ronnie and/or her case make him feel like he'd done justice enough to his job and his cousin to be OK with a switch In addition, I think the villain's motives could have been a little clearer and more believable.
Up until the point where his identity is fully revealed, he'd seemed fairly innocuous, so it was a little hard to buy into such a sudden change, However, the author did make me secondguess myself on the stalker/killer's identity a few times, I can't help wondering if she was perhaps constrained by word count, in which case, she still did a decent job of creating a good story in a rather short space.


In spite of a few weaknesses, Silent Confessions was an enjoyable read for me for all of the reasons I've mentioned above, While Julie Kenner's website doesn't officially have this book linked with any others as a series, there is another book, Silent Desires, published by the Harlequin Blaze line, which features Ronnie's friend and employee, Joan, as the heroine.
Also, Ronnie is a secondary character in Night Moves, set at a future date, when she's become a professor of erotic literature, These first couple of books I've read by Ms, Kenner have left me very interested in trying more, If these early works of hers are this tantalizing, I can't help wondering how much better her newer releases written as J, Kenner must be. A contempory mystery/thriller that is also a very steamy romance, Set in New York, Detective Jack Parker is investigating a series of breakins where the criminal leaves behind quotes from erotic literature, Jack enlist the expertise of Veronica Archer, owner of a bookstore and a grad student writing a paper on Victorian erotica,
Very steamy and filled with action, I totally knew who the perp was the entire book, Other than that it was ok,stars! Im actually pretty surprised with this book, I didnt go into thinking it was going to be a great book, but it shocked me, It was way better than what I initially thought, The entire time i was honking its this guy, hes the threat, but there was so many twists that I ended up really surprised, Much like a bad date, this book could not deliver on its promise, EXTREMELY predictable you can see the end coming a mile away, This book is a straight to Lifetime movie of the week, One that you see once and then promptly forget anything it was about, I loved her demon hunting mom series and this was just as good, She still surprised me a bit at the end, Great book, I just couldn't put it down, Suspence

Although I enjoyed this book it was not what I have come to expect from one of Julie's books, It is however enticing and full of sixpence that keeps you guessing,for SURE. AAAAAALLLLL the cheesiness we need,

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in contempory New York, a series of break ins linked by erotic quotes has Detective Jack Parker all hot and bothered, Veronica Archer is a bookstore owner with a collection of Victorian erotica, When Jack enlist Ronnie's expertise, the couple engage in some very hot and steamy research,

A thrilling murder/mystery with hot romance thrown in, A stalker has been leaving erotic notes to a married woman, and her husband is not amused by it, But now he has upped his stakes, by breaking into their highly secured apartment, and leaving his next message on her pillow, The woman claims to have no idea who it is, or how he entered their home, but she is clearly shaken, And of course she wont admit to anything with her husband hovering over her!
Detective Jack Parker needs a break in this case, or he wont be able to solve it.
Perhaps an expert in historic erotica can think of a link between the postcards and the lines of poetry left behind, So when his expert turns out to be a very sexy woman, his interest turns to more than her knowledge,
But Ronnie was at the police station to get an update on her own intruder, and not to give advice, So when the detective doesnt answer any of her questions, but instead seems to look down on her chosen profession, she stalks off, Ronnie owns an erotic bookstore,
But Jack doesnt give up easily, especially when the real professor/expert shows up and is no help whatsoever, So he finds out why she was at the station, and goes after her, determined to have her help him, And if she wants, to get a lot more personal!

When the stalker turns into a murderer, and all the clues lead back to Ronnies bookstore and classes in erotic literature, Jack wants to protect her.
He thinks he knows who the stalker is, but will Ronnie believe him Of will she kick him out of her life for good


A very nice mix of hot romance and suspense.
I enjoyed it very much especially the ending was nicely creepy when the bad guy came after Ronnie, The scenes between Jack and Ronnie were hot, but not too hot for my tastes, so that probably means too vanilla for the true erotica lover, She does use his handcuffs on him once, and that was a delightful scene,

If I can find the next book in this duology, I will certainly give it a try, it is about Ronnies bookstore assistant,

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