Book Review: Who is Emerald Monday

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Who is Emerald Monday     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Roz Denny Fox
Class/Genre:   Romance
Harlequin, May 2001, $4.50, 292 pp.

When she read about the finding of the remains of her beloved Franny Mom, Emmy Monday had just lost her job in Shreveport. She decides to go home to Uncertain, Texas to show her support to her foster brother Jed, who is the prime suspect in Franny's unsolved two-decade-old murder. However, Emmy also returns home because she needs to know the identity of her biological parents. Emmy learns that her once beloved Riley Gray has a precocious little girl and is a successful attorney. She turns to him for help with the local law and her parental search though she also tries to avoid him on an emotional level because her love for him still remains. As they work closely together, Emmy and Riley know they love each other even though they have not gotten any closer to her identity or solving the murder mystery. WHO IS EMERALD MONDAY, the second novel in the Return to East Texas trilogy, is an exciting romantic suspense work. While spinning its own entertaining plot, the novel remains true to the characterization and story line of the first tale (see K.N. Casper's THE MILLIONAIRE HORSEMAN). Readers watch the relationships between Emmy, Riley, and his little girl Alanna unfold even with the overly prejudiced Sheriff looking at them as if they are lepers. Fans will anxiously await the final entry, A MAN OF HIS WORD as Eve Gaddy continues the story by starring the archeologist who dug up Franny's bones and the other foster sibling Will.

Harriet Klausner

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