Book Review: When Darkness Falls

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

When Darkness Falls     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Susan Krinard , Tanith Lee , Evelyn Vaughn
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Fantasy   Romance
Silhouette, 2003, $6.50, 377 pp.

“Kiss of the Wolf” by Susan Krinard. Dr. Dana St. Cyr left California to return to her hometown, Big Marsh, Louisiana in the bayou backwaters to learn what happened to her identically looking cousin who vanished. Remy Arcenaux tells her to leave before she suffers the same fate as her relative, but Dana refuses though he frightens her, but not because she believes he will harm her. She fears her attraction to Remy, who rumors insist howls at night with murder in his heart.

“Shadow Kissing: by Tanith Lee. While Addie Preece travels abroad, artist Vivian Gray flat-sits her nineteenth century converted house apartment. In the garden Vivian sees a beautiful male statue that she needs to sketch. Not long afterward, the lonely Vivian meets Cinnamon Boyle-Martin and her partner Connor Sinclair, antique scavengers who want to buy some of Addie’s stuff. However, Connor could have posed for the statue that has attracted Vivian.

“The Devil She Knew” by Evelyn Vaughn. Marcy Bridges opens up her walk-in closet only to find flames that are not burning down her apartment, but instead seem to be laughing at her. Her thoughts are the inferno looks like they are inside a portal to Hell making her wonder how her first spell could go so wrong. She calls the building maintenance man Tomas Martinez for help even as she wonders if he may be the more dangerous devil to her.

These three supernatural romantic novellas are fun tales that make for a fine Halloween treat though a longer format would have enhanced lead character relationships that occur too fast.

Harriet Klausner

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