Book Review: The Waterfall

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

The Waterfall     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Carla Neggers
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Romantic Suspense
Mira, May 2000, $6.50, 354 pp.

Three years have passed since Collin died from a brain aneurysm, but his widow Lucy Blacker Swift and their children feel as if that was a lifetime ago. They left DC to live in a Vermont farmhouse where she runs a travel business for those seeking an adventurous vacation. The move has allowed Blacker to stay outside the “Beltway” influence of her father-in-law, a US senator.

When someone begins to stalk Lucy, she rejects turning to her in-law for aid. Instead, heeding Collin’s advice, she heads to Wyoming where Sebastian Redwing, an expert on security lives. Sebastian is burned out from his years of performing international investigations and security. However, he follows the only woman he ever loved back to New England to keep her and her children safe from a cold blooded killer with lethal intentions.

Carla Neggers puts the emphasis on suspense with romance playing a secondary role, a change that will remind readers of the works of Sandra Brown but using Ms. Negger’s personal writing style. The excellent characters are fully developed including the children. Readers will feel the emotional turmoil of the thirteen year-old girl and the impishness of her younger brother. This and the motivations behind the actions of the lead couple augment the tension filled story line that grips the audience from start to finish. The wonderfully wry THE WATERFALL is going to be watershed mark in the rising and expanding career of the talented Ms. Neggers.

Harriet Klausner

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