Find Heartbreaker (Buchanan-Renard #1) Conceived By Julie Garwood Document

first read this book before I joined Goodreads overyears ago and now a group I'm in is reading the series, I remember reading this book and loved it, I expect to enjoy revisiting this series and writing reviews this time around, With the exception of some tech details, this book is as wonderful today as it was inwhen it was published, I really felt for poor little rich girl, Laurent, having grown up separated from anyone who really loved her, I get how she fell in love with the small town of Holy Oaks, Iowa, she needed that, Nick was damaged goods who although he has a great supporting family and best friend, was falling apart due to the stress of his FBI job.
Two damaged people who really needed each other, I loved it!

Father Thomas Madden is hearing confession as a parish he is staying at while undergoing tests for cancer, The confession he hears terrifies him, The man claims he is going to kill his sister, and he is going to enjoy making Tom and Laurent suffer,

Tom contacts his best friend, FBI Special Agent Nick Buchanan and Nick sets in motion a plan to capture this nasty piece of s with the help of fellow Agent Noah Clayborn.
Together, they plan to stick close while Laurent sets herself up as bait to catch this nasty, As Nick and Laurent fall in love, the baddie spirals out of control, even if it was all for show, at least at first.


I have read this book before, and I still missed who the baddie was, I also need to point out that both Buchanan and Clayborn are families from Garwood's Historical Romance books, Loved seeing her bring these awesome families into modern times, Montgomery Clift in Alfred Hitchcocks“I Confess, ”

This is a review of the audiobook, Ive heard sitelinkTanya Eby read before and thought she delivered nice performances however, I wasnt thrilled over her narration in this one, Especially her supposed subtle “French” accent for Laurant Madden, the heroine who grew up in a French convent, It did NOT sound remotely French to me, Ms. Ebys diction is good, as is her pacing, Her differentiation of characters wasnt terrible, but Ive heard her do better, Nick and Noah sounded exactly the same,

Im one of those readers who still laments Garwoods shift from Historical Romance to Romantic Suspense, Still, I did like this darker foray into this popular contemporary genre, The psycho was just a tad too perverted for me, but I was expecting it,

The story starts off with Father Thomas Madden, a Catholic Priest, who hears the “confession of an evil man, However, part of this “confession” hasnt take place yet, One other important thing: it involves sinister plans towards Father Thomass sister, the heroine,

So, who should Father Thomas call to protect his beloved Laurant His best friend, FBI agent Nicolas Benjamin Buchanan,

And what better way to shield Laurant and rile the psycho than to pretend to be Laurants fiancé

Throw in the upcoming wedding of a dear friend, a jealous coworker, and a few arrogant home town characters young and old and you have a nice little suspense.
.Father Tom Madden is listening to a confession when the man confesses to a murder, Not only has he killed a woman, but he plans to kill another, . . Tom's sister, Laurant. Tom doesn't know who gave the confession but he contacts his best friend, FBI Agent Nick Buchanan, to protect his sister, Nick isn't about to let anything happen to Laurant, Since he is prepared to stick with her/, they tell everyone that they are engaged after a whirlwind courtship, The hope is that the killer will become jealous and make his move,

The first book in Julie Garwood's romantic suspense series gets off to a slow start, It took me a week to read this book, I had a hard time with the continuous descriptions and extraneous facts that were thrown into the story, I think a good editor could have slimmed this book down to a manageable story,

Thankfully, the pace of the story picked up afterpages, The suspense was well done, There were a handful of suspects to sort through, I did guess the killer but not his true identity, My favorite part of the book was the elderly sisters who lived beside Laurant and kept an eye on everything that happened in the neighborhood.
They set a lighter tone to the story, which was needed, I believe this was Julie Garwood's first romantic suspense book, I'm hoping her writing gets stronger and the series continues, My .Stars. Mmmm. It was OK but didn't make the four or five star mark for me, I was on holidays and dipping in now and again to the book, Maybe if I had read it in one or two sittings it would have worked better, It felt a bit dated and old fashioned at times, Sometimes that works for me but not really this time,


Sorry for the short review, but I finished this a while back, . .



Relectura: No recordaba casi nada de la trama solo algunas escenas sueltas, así que lo he disfrutado casi como la primera vez.
No obstante, creo que le pondría algo menos de nota en esta ocasión, Quizás un/antes tenía un/,




In the terms of romance suspense books, . . I have had better


Some spoilers, but no names are revealed,

I'm reading this for the 'Romance involving Murder' category of the Unapologetic Romance Readers Halloween Challenge

/This was such a disappointment! Maybe if I hadn't loved sitelinkMercy so much this wouldn't have paled in comparison so badly, but Mercy has been one of my favourite classic romances I call it 'classic' not because of when it was written, but because it was one of the first contemporary romances I ever read, all Mum's previous books were medieval, regency or western for so long overyears now that I couldn't help but compare Nick and Laurant with Theo and Michelle.
Nick and Laurant are totally in Theo and Michelle's passion shadow, I felt absolutely nothing for Nick and Laurant and I don't believe they actually felt anything for each other, either, They spentof the book as platonic housemates there's no more heat between them than there was between Nick and Tommy or Laurant and Tommy, there was some 'forced' sexual contact forced by the situation, not an individual that was completely awkward and so not sexy and then at the end they're in love and he's chasing her to Paris to make her marry him.
Their love was so unbelievable that I kept thinking "Yeah, right" as he professed his undying love and proposed marriage,

The mystery of the story was just as bad, The bad guy, 'Heartbreaker', could have been really scary just consider why he gave himself that name but he ended up being more of a caricature of a psycho killer.
His internal monologue was ridiculous and just made me want to laugh more than anything, His oldfashioned way of speaking using the phrase 'Yes, sirree' when he was talking to himself the way he kept telling the reader that he was oh so intelligent, but he never really behaved intelligently.
And then there's the oh so easy to spot red herring, he practically had a neon sign above his head that screamed "I am not the killer".


If I had read this book first I would have been hesitant about reading the next in the series, thankfully that's not the way it happened.
I'm hopeful and only slightly nervous that I'm not remembering Mercy with rosetinted glasses, that it really was as good as I remember.

I can say with absolute certainty that I'm never going to read this again, but unfortunately it's one that I actually own so I'm going to have to find someone to give it to.
It's a hardcover and it's in pretty bad condition

exlibrary book, but if anyone's interested in reading it I would be happy to pay postage to wherever you are.
Apesar de já conhecer esta autora e já ter lido alguns livros dela, nunca os li por ordem, Agora, ao saber o inicio desta série ainda gostei mais do que li,
Prendenos da primeira à última página,
Senti por vezes que já sabia ao certo quem seria ao assassino, mas acabei por chegar ao fim com uma surpresa,
Se gostam de policiais e não conhecem a autora, não podem deixar de ler,
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