Linsey Lanier
Sally Kilpatrick
Sia Huff
Romily Bernard
Darcy Crowder
Marilyn Baron
Tami Brothers
Sandra Elzie
Carol Burnside
Debbie Kaufman
Maxine Davis
Tammy Schubert
Susan Carlisle
Pam Asberry
Lindy Chaffin StartBlack Hills by Nora Roberts
Black Hills
Author: Nora Roberts http://www.noraroberts.com/
Publisher: G.P. Putnam Sons, New York
Publication Date: July 7, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-399-15581-9
Genre: Romantic SuspenseNora Roberts hits another home run with Black Hills. In this hardcover novel, she pairs South Dakota wildlife biologist Lil Chance with New York ex-cop/investigator Cooper Sullivan. The two met when eleven-year-old Cooper came out to visit his grandparents on a neighboring ranch. Each year during his annual summer visit they grow closer until their friendship turns into something deeper. But the lovers go in different directions and Coop breaks Lil’s heart for reasons she can’t fathom. They meet again 12 years later when Cooper comes back to South Dakota to help his aging grandparents run their ranch. Lil has been a success and followed her dream to create the Chance Wildlife Refuge. Cooper, who is cut off from his family fortune because he refuses to join his father’s law firm, is independent, still struggling and trying to prove himself.
Publication Date: July 7, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-399-15581-9
Genre: Romantic SuspenseNora Roberts hits another home run with Black Hills. In this hardcover novel, she pairs South Dakota wildlife biologist Lil Chance with New York ex-cop/investigator Cooper Sullivan. The two met when eleven-year-old Cooper came out to visit his grandparents on a neighboring ranch. Each year during his annual summer visit they grow closer until their friendship turns into something deeper. But the lovers go in different directions and Coop breaks Lil’s heart for reasons she can’t fathom. They meet again 12 years later when Cooper comes back to South Dakota to help his aging grandparents run their ranch. Lil has been a success and followed her dream to create the Chance Wildlife Refuge. Cooper, who is cut off from his family fortune because he refuses to join his father’s law firm, is independent, still struggling and trying to prove himself.
Suspense mounts as they rediscover each other, and confront a killer who is stalking Lil and who was responsible for killing a hiker whose body Lil and Coop discovered years ago.
I’ve never been to South Dakota but Nora makes the Black Hills come alive. She creates wonderful central characters, a serial-killer villain and a suspenseful story that will keep you on edge until the end. Nora Roberts never disappoints.
Reviewed by: Marilyn Baron
Ratings: 5 Petit Fours & 2 Hot Tamales
Tags: Black Hills, book review, Marilyn Baron, Nora Roberts, Reviews
About the author
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Marilyn Baron | Marilyn Baron's debut novel, The Edger, a humorous women's fiction she cowrote with her sister, award-winning Florida artist Sharon Goldman, was released January 2012. THE EDGER is available at Amazon Kindle http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006Y3P12Y#_
Smashwords http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/123376
Barnes & Noble Nook Books http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-edger-marilyn-baron/1108321593?ean=2940013703957&itm=1&usri=the+edger+marilyn+baron
Her humorous supernatural e-short stories, "A Choir of Angels," "Follow an Angel," and "The Stand-In Bridegroom," are available from TWB Press at http://www.twbpress.com/thestandinbridegroom.html.
Marilyn Baron is a public relations consultant in Atlanta. She’s a PRO member of Romance Writers of America, and is the winner of the GRW 2009 Chapter Service Award.
She writes humorous women’s fiction, romantic suspense and paranormal. Her manuscript, “The Colonoscopy Club,” finaled in the GRW Unpublished Maggie Awards for Excellence in 2005 in the Single Title category and "The Edger," won first place in the Suspense Romance category of the 2010 Ignite the Flame Contest, sponsored by the Central Ohio Fiction Writers chapter of RWA.
She graduated from The University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism. What’s unique about my writing? I try to inject humor into everything I write, from romantic suspense to women’s fiction. I like to laugh and I think my readers do too. I tend to feature older heroines, because let’s face it, we’re not getting any younger.
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August 29th, 2009 at 7:03 am
Marilyn,
Agatha Christie, J K Rowling and NORA ROBERTS. Need I say more? I read the 1st 14 pages that appeared online, took off to B&N, but the book wasn't out yet. Since then, I've put off buying because I know I will sit and read it ALL and not do any writing, cooking, well, you get the picture. Sounds good. Thanks.
August 29th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Ohhhhh. I'm intrigued! I definitely want to read this one.
May have to make room in my limited book budget for a hardback…
Tami
August 29th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Maxine,
You definitely will sit there all day and read it.
Tami,
Or you could wait until it comes out in paperback and by then she certainly will have released another new hardback.
Marilyn
August 30th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Sounds like another good one. It's going on my list.
Linsey