Silent Confessions

by Julie Kenner

Book Overview

Detective Jack Parker needs help from a historical sex expert to find a stalker of women who leaves Victorian erotica behind. He turns to bookstore owner Veronica Archer, who agrees to help him with his case if he will her her discover if life can be as arousing as in fiction. Original.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373835892
• ISBN13: 9780373835898
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Harlequin
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

exhilarating, often heated serial killer romance

Except for the violated faces of the female victims and their spouses, and the Victorian erotica poems tat are taken, Sex Crimes Detective Jack Parker has no solid clues. However, Parker knows that the culprit has gotten incredibly bold having now broken into the homes of his chosen targets. The nineteenth century amorous poetry remains the sole lead so he asks that an expert on the subject be provided to help him understand the culprit.Rare erotica bookstore owner Veronica Archer arrives at the police station to report someone broke into her shop and stole some of her merchandise. Parker thinks she is the professor from the nearby college so their first meeting goes awry until he realizes that he has confused a victim for an expert. However, she knows the Victorian Era quite well and assists Parker on his investigation. As they fall in love, the sexual stalker continues to raise the stakes until he commits homicide and has added Ronnie to his list of intended victims.SILENT CONFESSIONS is an exhilarating, often heated serial killer romance with an ardent sub-theme to connect the triangle of the cop, the book store expert, and the murderer. The story line is loaded with action and heated with sexual tension between Jack and Ronnie and in an intriguing subtle way between the stalker and the heroine. Though the identity of the killer fits recent trends that feel standardized enabling certain insider information to happen fans will enjoy this taut thriller that hooks the audience from the moment a frustrated Parker meets an exasperated but frightened Archer.Harriet Klausner

An erotic tale...

Ronnie Archer has always been fascinated by erotic literature. Which is why she loves her bookstore so much, which specializes in hard to find erotic books. When a stalker starts preying on women in the city, Detective Jack Parker comes to Ronnie for help. For only she can give him insight to the stalkers choice of passages from the books she carries in her store. He also kindles her desire, which has been raging since she started working on her final paper to get her PHD.Det. Jack Parker has never met anyone that could make him instantly think of sex. That changes the first time he lays eyes on Veronica Archer. She is everything he'd never had and always wanted. Then he finds out that she's been getting notes for two months. While they are sweet and seemingly innocent notes, he is convinced there is a connection between the stalker and Ronnie's admirerer (sp?).Then two of the victims are murderered and Jack's now worried for Ronnie's safety. Now the woman he has fallen in love with may fall prey to the psysco that is walking the streets scaring women. Although the suspense isn't very original, I picked it up for the romance aspect, which definetly doesn't dissapoint. It is a highly steamy and erotic book which plenty of sex between the two main characters.

Fun Read

This book was worth reading. I enjoyed it very much. It is fast paced and keeps moving to an ending not unexpected but satisfying.I keep my reading of romance authors to a chosen few, and Julie Kenner will be added to my list.

Erotic and engaging...

Julie Kenner is one versatile author. She writes quirky super-hero books, which is where I discovered her, and also wonderfully fun Harlequins. Now a rich, erotic romantic suspense. Wonderful! I enjoyed Jack and Ronnie's road to romance very much. I can't wait to read the follow-up book, which will be published as a Blaze. It can only get hotter! Yikes!