Her Other Thief

by Glenda Garland

A woman, certain she'll remain single now that her brother stands accused as a thief, finds her heart stolen by a masked intruder who breaks into her friend's country house.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821777440
• ISBN13: 9780821777442
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Zebra Books
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful follow-up to "The Unexpected Sister"

I thoroughly enjoyed this delightful romance. Lucy Bowes is a strong heroine with a good head on her shoulders and copes with what fate had handed her: a brother who has stolen and thus dishonored the family name. Captain Ewan Sandeford is a dashing "thief" who wants to find a letter regarding a debt he does not owe -- one that is located in Dashwood, the country home of Lucy's best friend. The imagery in this book is wonderful and the romance between Lucy and Ewan strong. I heartily recommend this to anyone who enjoys a great Regency with a good plot and characters.

3 1/2 stars: a good romantic read

I think that one should never look forward too much to a "sequel" to a book. Having read "The Other Sister" and having liked the heroine's best friend, Lucy Bowes" enormously, I had rather hoped that she would get a story of her own. Well my wish was granted (obviously a great many people liked Lucy enormously as well), and the result, "Her Other Thief" has left me with mixed feelings: on the one hand, the interaction between Lucy and the hero was witty and thrilling, but the story was slow to unfold, and my overall reaction was "could something hurry up and happen please?" rather than the enjoyment of a romance for a character I really liked. Obviously my expectations had been too high; and that's not very fair to either the author or the book. In "The Other Sister," Miss Lucy Bowes' brother was revealed to be a coward and a thief. Facing scorn and ruination (her inheritance is tied to her brother's affairs, and her brother has since run off in order to avoid the law), Lucy has been lucky in her friends, especially her best friend, Caroline, the new Machioness of Dash. Caroline has stood her friend in this trying time, and has invited her to inspect Dashwood with her, since Caroline's husband, Thomas, is currently away. From the very first day Lucy makes the discovery that someone has been breaking into Dashwood. Determined to repay Caroline's kindness by protecting her interests, Lucy lies in wait for the thief, only to find that the masked man in an irresistible Spaniard, who manages to charm his way to her heart. The Spaniard claims that he is no thief, but is actually trying to recover something that is his. But can Lucy trust him? After all after having known one glib liar and thief, can she afford to take a chance on someone else with a persuasive tongue? "Her Other Thief" was not a bad read. Rather, it was a well written novel with a very interesting storyline and was a wonderful accounting of how two prickly and intelligent people fall in love with each other, but who are reluctant to admit it, much less do anything about it. However, the book did unfold a tad slowly, going 'round and 'round in circles, over the same material over and over again: our hero would try to recover the note, and Lucy would thwart him. Of course this allowed for some rather clever and pulse-racing conversations between Lucy and the hero; but I did wish that the whole issue could have been resolved a little faster. Also, since even the hero wonders if he should have just approached Thomas (the current Marquess of Dash) from the very beginning and explained things (in the other words the sensible approach), I couldn't help wondering the same. And I just didn't buy his whole "but can I trust the new Marquess of Dash" approach. Especially since everyone agreed that Thomas, unlike his dead elder brother, was the very soul of honour and discretion. However, what's good about this novel far outweighs the nit-picking, and all in all, "Her Other Thief" was a good ro