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Nothing is more powerful than a conspiracy formed out of a secret. Three foster kids going by the names of Gus, Beauty, and Wart were witnesses to the shooting death of their foster mother and the disappearance of a young baby left under her charge. Nobody except for those three teenagers knows what really happened that day. All three split up and vanished without a trace and their current whereabouts are unknown even after ten years on the run. The baby's grandmother is desperate to find out what happened to her grandson and is doing everything she can to get information. After unsuccessfully going through several detective agencies, she finally decides to give it one last shot before giving up. She enlists (actually blackmails) the assistance of her nephew Cade Harding, a former forensic profiler on sabbatical as a college professor, to see if he can find what no one else could. Cade is stuck between a rock and hard place knowing he has no choice but to help his aunt. He is still grieving for the death of his wife due to cancer but he still soldiers on, unfortunately becoming a walking cliché. Through a stroke of good luck and coincidence, Cade manages to find Addy Michaels (aka Wart) who is presently the proprietress of a lakeside motel in Star Lake, Washington. Someone from her past is coming looking for her looking for some payback and revenge regarding the incident of a decade or so ago. Of course Cade decides to help after deceiving Addy of his intentions and of course, as if you have not guessed it by now, fall in love till the book reaches a predictable finale. KILLING BLISS reads a bit like a soap opera with the troubled hero, the suffering woman, a prostitute with the heart of gold, and an ex-con fresh out of jail looking for his own brand of justice. The book is filled with a lot of "coulda," "woulda," "shouldas," and "whydonchas" that it gets to the point that you want to finish reading just to start a better one. Filled with lots of television movie-of-the-week stereotypes, it lacks suspense and originality. Read at your own risk.
Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, May 2005
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