Book Review: Hot Case

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Hot Case     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Patricia Rosemoor
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Romance   Adventure   Woman Main Character   Paranormal
Series: Silhouette Bombshell
Silhouette Bombshell, Dec 2004, $5.50, 295 pp.

Following a tip Chicago Violent Crimes Unit Detective Shelley Caldwell finds the murdered body of LaTonya Sanford drained of blood. She calls it in, but a fog engulfs the corpse; when it clears there is neither body nor any blood at the scene.

Shelley has been transferred to the police academy where she instructs new recruits as no one believed that she saw a body vanish into the air, but is considering quitting the force though that would hurt her mom, a district commander. However, when her twin sister Silke desperately calls Shelley insisting she found a corpse of a friend, she rushes tot he scene. Once again the body vanished. This time she knows she did not see things that were not there. Shelley gores undercover posing as Silke to gain entrance to the exotic e Goth club Heart of Darkness for there she feels is a link to some weird supernatural happening, but sinking her teeth into the case without backup or sanctioning could prove deadly.

Readers will enjoy this supernatural police procedural with a shade of romance. The story line grips the reader from the moment that Shelley “loses” her corpse and her informer is also missing. The tale never lets up until the climax as Shelley digs deep into a weird world that she knows should not exist. Besides a fantastic lead protagonist, the key to Patricia Rosemoor’s super tale is that the paranormal feels bona fide due to the inquiries of the lead cop on the trail of a HOT CASE.

Harriet Klausner

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