| Murder List: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Julie Garwood
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Pages: 448
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 3.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 0345453832
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345453839
ASIN: 0345453832
Publication Date: March 1, 2005
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There are few authors who can weave nail-biting thrills, edge-of-your-seat drama, and romantic suspense as masterfully as Julie Garwood. Now she ratchets up the tension with Murder List, in which evil is on the hunt– and proves to be methodically organized and chillingly successful.
When Chicago detective Alec Buchanan is offered a prime position with the FBI, it is the perfect opportunity to leave the Windy City and follow in his brothers’ footsteps to the top echelons of law enforcement. But first he must complete one last assignment (and one that he is not too happy about): acting as a glorified bodyguard to hotel heiress Regan Hamilton Madison. The gorgeous exec has become entangled in some potentially deadly business. Someone has e-mailed her a graphic crime-scene photo–and the victim is no stranger.
Regan suspects that the trouble started when she agreed to help a journalist friend expose a shady self-help guru who preys on lonely, vulnerable women. In fact, the smooth-as-an-oil-slick Dr. Lawrence Shields may be responsible for the death of one of his devotees, which was ruled a suicide. Hoping to find some damning evidence, Regan attends a Shields seminar.
At the gathering, the doctor persuades his guests to partake in an innocent little “cleansing” exercise. He asks them to make a list of the people who have hurt or deceived them over the years, posing the question: Would your world be a better place if these people ceased to exist? Treating the exercise as a game, Regan plays along. After ten minutes, Shields instructs the participants to bring their sheets of paper to the fireplace and throw them into the flames. But Regan misses this part of the program when she exits the room to take a call–and barely escapes a menacing individual in the parking lot.
The experience is all but forgotten–until the first person on Regan’s list turns up dead. Shock turns to horror when other bodies from the list start to surface, as a harrowing tango of desire and death is set into motion. Now brutal murders seem to stalk her every move–and a growing attraction to Alec may compromise her safety, while stirring up tender emotions she thought she could no longer feel. Yet as the danger intensifies and a serial killer circles ever closer, Regan must discover who has turned her private revenge fantasies into grisly reality.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Very Uninteresting November 13, 2008
I picked this up at a book sale, having no idea who the author was. The characters in this book are so unbelievably unbelievable it is hard to even describe it. A hotel heiress and her super-rich friends drive crappy cars, do good deeds, talk about how 3k is alot of money and get stalked by psychos. Oh, and one gets involved in w/ a cop in a "romance" storyline that is eyeball dryingly bad. At least I didn't pay too much for this book and I know to avoid this author.
 Murder List October 30, 2008
Shortly after attending a seminar, Reagan Hamilton was walking to her car, when her knee gave out. She and her two friends Sophie and Cordie had been at the seminar to try and get the goods on a self help guru thought to have caused a distraught woman to commit suicide. Reagan's knee gave out periodically, but this time, she could barely get up. She was going to shout out for help, when a man approached her. The man instantly made her uncomfortable, so instead of sticking around, she followed her instincts, and made it to her car.
Reagan was catching up with her email shortly after knee surgery when she stumbled upon one containing grisly photos of a dead man. She was horrified, but was further distraught when she realized she recognized the man. It was the police detective investigating the suicide victim. Alec Buchanan was assigned to investigate the case, and was trying to make some connection between Reagan and the murdered detective. He didn't believe just their brief meeting at the station could be at the center of it. When a second victim was identified, Reagan remembered at the seminar creating a murder list for those that had wronged her, or people she would just like to get rid of, and the two murder victims were on that list. Now that the connection was established, Alec knew her life was in danger.
Alec was assigned to be her bodyguard, and both of them found the instant attraction between them to be overwhelming. He was not going to get involved with her because he had a job at the FBI waiting on him in Boston. Nothing was going to get in the way of him leaving Chicago. Famous last words! Before long neither could contain the passion between them, and they soon discovered they could not get enough of each other.
Reagan and Alec are a wonderful couple. They balance each other very well. Alec has a tough job dealing with the scourge of the earth each day, and she brings the humanity back into his world. Reagan changed a lot in this story. She had always lived her life according to the standards of her family, and doing what they told her to do. When Alec entered her life, he gave her the strength to take a stand, and live her life on her terms. Good suspenseful read.
Murder List September 20, 2008
I love Julie's contemporarary series! She artistically builds suspense while balancing building the romance at the same time.
Didn't quite live up to Garwood April 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was okay. I devoured Mercy and Killjoy, this one simply did not have the UMPH that the other two had. I had to read it, because a Buchanan was in it, I did like it, it just lacked a little magic. Don't buy it, get it from the library. If you like the family, it's worth the read. I am going on to Slow Burn, which I hope the magic returns.
Good Book April 20, 2008
I bought this at the drugstore as a carpool time filler....I thought it was pretty good.
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