Glory Days

by Irene Peterson

When New Jersey PI John Preshin meets Liz Atwater, his landlady's gorgeous granddaughter, he embarks on his toughest case yet as he tries to win her heart.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821780107
• ISBN13: 9780821780107
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Zebra Books
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Perfect Summer Read

Glory Days by Irene Peterson was a amazing buy. This is mystery romance novel that is not for faint of heart. John Preshin is ex FBI agnet and now is a private dick who has two women come into his life - both with secrets. I loved so much about this book - buy it and enjoy!

Sometimes the Past Comes Back to Haunt Us . . .

GLORY DAYS was very good. It had good description, uncomplicated intrigue, acceptable characters, and author Irene Peterson held me right to the end. In their glorious youth, six friends spent one golden summer doing whatever and whomever. Sixteen years later, New Jersey PI, John Preshin opens his door to find Miss Carly Snow standing there, holding a list of six men - her "father" list - his name is at the top! John Preshin is a good man, he is a man of his word, and she is a good kid with a wonderful future ahead of her. As John begins his search for the truth, he wonders if he should just let sleeping dogs lie. Ms. Liz Atwater was another complication in John's pathetic life. She was uptight and puzzling. Nevertheless, she was drawing him in and slowly creeping into his soul. They were two of a kind, two miserable creatures trying to forget. John knew he was getting in too deep. He was not some avenging angel. He was a man who usually hid inside a bourbon bottle or behind a protective wall of indifference. Liz Atwater felt the loneliness begin to drain away the minute John Preshin smiled. His smile could heat the room. His kindness could destroy the anger. His arms could take away the hurt. Giving into him was easy - far too easy. Yet, he could help her forget the pain. Finally, she would be free from all the haunting memories. With hardly a dull moment, Irene Peterson's GLORY DAYS marvellously clipped along. The author created charming characters and made good use of a gentle suspense theme. However, Peterson kept most of the romance on the back burner. Yet, even with this romance deficiency, GLORY DAYS was a very satisfying read. Grade: A- MaryGrace Meloche.

Great New Jersey feel--wornout PI searches for a father/finds self

Since he got shot in a botched bust, ex-FBI agent John Preshin has worked as a private eye, finding people who have money coming, staking out people who don't want to be found, and finding and forgetting women. But when a cop shows up with a kid claiming he's her father, John's life is turned upside down. Not that he could possibly be her father--although his name is on the list she brought from the convent where she's lived all her life. But the other guys on the list aren't much to hope for--one priest, one dying ex-cop, one bartender in an S & M club, one wanna-be-hood, and one overworked refinery employee. None would be great fathers--and their wives are worse. Still, John can't exactly turn Carly down--and she has nowhere else to go. He takes the case. Beautiful redhead Liz Atwater is back home in New Jersey after finally escaping a horrible marriage and a horrible tragedy. When she discovers her grandmother's tenant, naked, in the diner her grandmother runs, Flo suspects he's a criminal and grabs a knife. And what's with that "Z" tattooed to his chest? When it turns out that her grandmother knows the guy--that he's a trustworthy ex-FBI type, Liz relaxes a little. But there is the little matter of just about every woman John runs into calling him Bourbon John and slapping him in the face. As John investigates Carly's possible fathers, he realizes the poor kid doesn't have a lot of good options. What if it's the priest? Can he ask the man to give up his vocation to stay with a sixteen-year-old girl. As for the hood, he's as likely to abuse the child as he is to take care of her. Meanwhile, John has to fight the attraction he feels for Liz. Unlike just about every other woman, who's forgotten by the next morning, Liz stays on his mind even when she's not around. Getting her into his bed once doesn't cure him--in fact, it makes her want more. But John has a secret--and an oath. He's going to get his revenge on the man who killed his friend in that bad bust--and there can't be a happily ever after for him. Author Irene Peterson delivers a compelling story filled with the atmosphere of a decaying New Jersey beach town, a hero and heroine who are so badly damaged that they are the only hope of each other's repair, and a sixteen-year-old girl who is just cranky enough not to be perfect. The story is as much that of finding the right father for Carly as it is finding matches for Liz and John. Although the answer to that question is clear from the start, getting there is definitely more than half the fun.

Great book, not your ordinary bubble gum romance!

I bought this book because of its low price and though "what the heck" from reading the description. I anticipated this to be just another fluff romance book, and was totally wrong. This book is written with humor, woes, family and love all tangled within the story; and written in a way you get caught up in the characters woes and have you rooting for them. In addition, the author gives the readers just enough information of a particular background story to make you anticipate knowing the full story. I found this to be a great read and a pleasant surprise!! Only suggestion - fire the company that marketed this book!!

***** DON'T MISS THIS BOOK!!!!

For starters, I still don't like contemporary romances. Especially, when they're set in places I've never been, and with characters that have difficult pasts. Add to this, an ex-FBI agent, a divorcee, a troubled teen, and the matriarch of the household with the heart of gold named Flo. I thought I was in for yet another "Lifetime-Special-Movie-of-the-Week" kind of plot. Was I ever surprised! Irene Peterson's debut GLORY DAYS transcends every stereotype I've ever had of this genre. This woman had me by page 3, and never let me go. I can smell the Jersey Shore now, I can see the boardwalk, I can taste the soup the S.R.O. is serving, and I about died laughing when the duct-tape mystery was solved! That's how good Irene Peterson is. This book is never leaving my possession. Truly. I only wish it had never ended.