Book Review: Lethal Seductions

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

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Jackie Collins
Class/Genre:   Mystery
Pocket, June 2000, $26.00, 476 pp.

Manhattan Style magazine reporter Madison Castelli may be beautiful, but feels unlucky when it comes to men. She still clings to hopes of finding a love of a lifetime even though she is seeing someone. However, her dreams are interrupted when her father Michael informs her that her mother Stella is divorcing him. He also tells her revelations about the identity of her real mother killed almost three decades ago. On top of that she learns that Stella was killed with the man she was living with in an apparent robbery.

Madison begins to think back on her unhappy childhood while reflecting on her father. She begins to uncover the repugnant reality that Michael has mob connections, making her wonder what really happened to Stella.

LETHAL SEDUCTION is the typical Jackie Collins fare: underdeveloped characters with limited understanding inside an erotic story line with little plotting that is overwhelmingly fun to read. While Madison tries to pour her heart out to her best friend, her best friend tries to pour her heart out to Madison, leaving the reader as the only listener. Cameos and visits from the rich and famous add glamour that brings a side of Manhattan to life, but this is novel is classic Collins which means an enjoyable, very humorous trip into fluff.

Harriet Klausner

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