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New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown is back with a spine-tingling story of murder and betrayal -- and a homicide detective's struggle with his own rules of conduct.
When Detective Sergeant Duncan Hatcher is summoned to the home of Judge Cato Laird in the middle of the night to investigate a fatal shooting, he knows that discretion and kid-glove treatment are the key to staying in the judge's good graces and keeping his job.
At first glance, the case appears open-and-shut: Elise, the judge's trophy wife, interrupted a burglary in progress and killed the intruder in self-defense. But Duncan is immediately suspicious of Elise's innocent act. And further investigation quickly puts Duncan's career in jeopardy -- because he can't deny his increasing attraction to Elisa Laird, even if she is a married woman, a proven liar, and a murder suspect.
Ricochet's plot twists -- as only Sandra Brown can write them -- make this a gripping thriller, in which a decent cop's worst enemy may be his own conscience...and trusting the wrong person could mean the difference between life and death.
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This was an engaging book with a well thought out, twisty plot. Though I enjoyed the book, I can understand some of the negative reviews. The biggest bone of contention seems to be that the reader is made to continuously vacillate on whether or not to believe the main female character. But, that vacillation was intentional on the part of the author and intrinsic to the concept behind the book. The story is told primarily from the point of view of the main male character. The story unfolds through his eyes. He's in love with the main female character and fights it, not knowing for sure if she can be trusted. I think this creates a lot of angsty drama and tension. If we know for sure that she can be trusted, where's the suspense? Anyway, another negative comment is that we don't get to really know the female character as well as we know the male character. That's true. But, again this is intentional. We get to know and trust her only as the main male character does. I think the book is well written and suspensful. Ms. Brown's approach to telling this story from the male's pov was quite novel (other authors tend to give us the female pov or to let us into the heads of both characters). Though I was able to guess the ultimate outcome at the beginning of the book, the book still kept my interest until the end.
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