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Emma Price is the quintessential working mom, mother to a teenager and a toddler and employed as the lead investigator for New York Capital Crimes, where she does background checks on the agency's clients. Her boss and friend Dawn Prescott is a woman who has not always chosen wisely in her relationships. She calls Emma to meet her one night and Emma is kidnapped and badly beaten. Emma is sure that she has been mistaken for Dawn. When Dawn is later found dead in a seedy motel room, Emma's antenna goes up; although it appears that the death occurred during a sexual encounter gone wrong, Emma doesn't buy it. Emma has the benefit of having another friend and partner who will help her during the investigation of what happened to Dawn. She has been involved in a relationship with homicide detective, Laurence Solomon, for quite some time. Although they are of different races, that has not been the main difficulty for them. It is more a matter of Emma trusting Laurence and the two of them negotiating their considerable differences in how they approach their lives. Be that as it may, Laurence is extremely concerned about the situation and the fact that Emma was terribly injured during the kidnapping and continues to be in jeopardy. So why would anyone want Dawn dead? She is the daughter of an influential senator. Is there something political going on? Does it have anything to do with the fact that Dawn had been looking at her very first case, where Arthur Nevins was incarcerated for murdering his wife -- has she found new evidence that will exonerate him and make a now influential cop named Lowry look really bad? Or is it a result of a poor choice of who to sleep with? And why is a high-powered attorney so interested in Nevins nine years later? The Emma Price series is one that is rapidly becoming one of my favorites. Emma is the kind of character that grows on you over time. She may be prickly and difficult, but she is also very real, as is her lover, Laurence; her two children and her cheating ex-husband, Will. A minor personal quibble -- the one thing that I did not like about the book was the title. I never could see how it related to what happened in the book. In fact, It's Raining Men was the title of a one-hit wonder by The Weather Girls in the early 1980s, and I couldn't help but think of that silly song every time I picked up the book! With characters that live and breathe and a plot that is well developed and nicely complex, I highly recommend IT'S RAINING MEN.
Reviewed by Maddy Van Hertbruggen, September 2005
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