Book Review: The Witness

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

The Witness     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Ginna Gray
Class/Genre:   Romance   Romantic Suspense
Mira, Sep 2001, $5.99, 384 pp.

Lauren Brownley enjoys playing the piano at Denver’s Club Classico. However, her gig abruptly ends when she sees her employer Carlo Giovessi kill Frank Pappano, a drug runner who stole some of the illegal gains from him. Carlo realizes that Lauren witnessed the homicide and from her hiding place she overhears his instructions to his thugs to kill her.

Lauren heeds Carlo’s unintended advice to go to the polcie who hand her over to the FBI. Agent Sam Grey Wolf Rawlins vows to keep the frightened rabbit safe until the Carlo’s trial, but knows he must get her out of town to do so because someone on the Feds’ rolls works for Carlo. Soon the duo is isolated in a mountain blizzard with thugs on their trail and their only hope is the growing love and trust between them.

THE WITNESS is a powerful romantic suspense novel that works because readers will feel the fear and mistrust between the lead characters that gradually changes into love and faith. Though the plane escape from the mole seems too uncertain of a venture, the nasty crash, nastier weather, and the nastiest hoodlums enhance the story line. The audience will witness a strong tale with a fine cast that testifies that the only gray area in this author’s writing is her name.

Harriet Klausner

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