Reviewed by Terescia H.
September 20, 2004
"Snappy dialogue, fun wit, and her best mystery plot to date make this one of Krentz's better suspense novels, but the romance didn't hit the mark."
Screaming walls haunt Zoe Luce, making her choice of career seem a little bizarre to me. As an interior designer, Zoe spends a lot of time in strangers' homes. While checking out the space of one of her newer clients, she discovers just such a set of screaming walls, and she becomes certain something terrible happened in her client's bedroom.
Ethan Truax is the PI she hires to help her discover the truth of what might have happened in that particular room. Despite his disturbing habit of forgetting that he works for her, when her own past comes back to haunt her, Zoe enlists Truax's help.
Light in Shadow kept me in suspense longer than most of Krentz's books, and that was one reason I truly enjoyed the mystery this time around. However, the romance between Zoe and Ethan seemed slow to develop throughout the course of the book, and I discovered why at the end.
It follows Ms. Krentz pattern of late to leave room for a sequel, and for that reason, I was disappointed. Everyone seems to have moved to writing series, and that may be great for some, but I'm not a fan of series where the same characters return time and again, stretching out their tale over the course of three, and sometimes even more, books. I read romance because I like happy endings and nice, neat resolutions.
Snappy dialogue, fun wit, and her best mystery plot to date make this one of Krentz's better suspense novels, but the romance didn't hit the mark.
So, for that reason, despite the strength of the suspense plot, I can only give this book a 3.
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Book Description for Light in Shadow
Zoe Luce is a successful interior designer in the Arizona town of Whispering Springs who's developed an unusual career specialty-helping recently divorced clients redesign their homes, to help them forget the past and start anew. But Zoe knows that some things can't be covered up with a coat of paint. And when she senses that one of her clients may be hiding a dark secret, she enlists P.I. Ethan Truax to find the truth.
Working together, they solve the mystery...and barely escape with their lives. But Ethan's exquisite detection skills are starting to backfire on Zoe: she never wanted to let him find out about her former life; she never wanted to reveal her powerful, inexplicable gift for sensing the history hidden within a house's walls; she never wanted him to know that "Zoe Luce" doesn't really exist. She never wanted to fall in love with him.
Now, no matter how much she resists, Ethan may be her only hope-because the people she's been running from have found her. And just when Zoe dares to dream of a normal life and a future with the man she loves, her own past starts to shadow her every step-and threatens to take her back into a nightmare.
