Book Review: Light in Shadow

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Light in Shadow     Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Jayne Ann Krentz
Class/Genre:   Mystery
Putnam, Jan 2003, $24.95, 384 pp.

She is an interior designer who incorporates the principles of feng shui and other New Age ideas when she redesigns a house. Zoe Luce is so popular in Whispering Springs that the wealthy Davis Mason hires her to redo his home. When she walks into the master bedroom she senses that somebody very recently was murdered there and she thinks it was Davis’ missing wife. Not wanting to work for a killer, Zoe hires private investigator Ethan Truax to discover what happened to her client’s wife. It doesn’t take long For Ethan to discover that Davis did indeed murder his wife and he offers to protect Zoe before Davis kills her too. He gets there in time to incapacitate Davis.

Zoe and Ethan’s relationship is far from over. Somebody knows that Zoe escaped from Candles Lake Manor after being wrongfully committed there by her dead husband’s family. Zoe knows that she will somehow flush out the killer who destroyed her life and bring him to justice if Ethan can protect her from the blackmailers and those who will harm her.

Jayne Ann Krentz can always be counted on to write an excellent work of romantic suspense and she doesn’t disappoint her audience in LIGHT IN SHADOW. The heroine and hero bumble along into a relationship that neither wants to let go of but one in which both are afraid to admit their true feelings. This endears them to the audience who will find them very likable and unpredictable as they jump from the frying pan into the fire as there are two distinct subplots linked by this attractive duo.

Harriet Klausner

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