Dead Silence

I was very disappointed with this book. I expected a mystery and instead got a peculiar Southern romance novel with not very mysterious mystery elements thrown in. Additionally, the Southern accent of the narrator was over the top. However, if you are a lover of the Harlequin Romance genre, I'm sure you'll love this book.

I wish I had read the reviews before purchasing this book. Turns out the publisher's summary is the most interesting part. This is a story for the hopelessly romantic gal who wants to simply disengage her brain and escape reality and logic. All I can say about the main character, Grace Montgomery, is that for a smart woman she sure is dumb.

There were a few interesting aspects of this book if the reader or listener is looking for escapist junk but it is grating to find a character, who is smart enough to put herself through college and law school and is supposedly an officer of the court, stupid enough to commit the act of breaking and entering. I wanted to scream at her for being such an idiot and for allowing another character to harass her without this dumb bunny getting a restraining order against him. The reader was simply awful, especially when she was doing a male character.

I loved this audiobook and am thrilled that this author has another book I can download and listen to immediately but wish she had a lot more. Hopefully some more will appear soon. This book is about Grace, a woman who moves back to her home town where she is remembered as high school's "bad girl". Her stepfather's disappearance when she was 13 is a mystery that was never solved and keeps the townspeople talking about her "white trash" family and what they might have done to him. One man, Kennedy Archer, remembers Grace from high school and cringes with memories of how she was treated, regretting how his friends treated Gracie in high school and how he himself just plain ignored her. He finds the adult Grace, now a successful assistant district attorney to be very attractive and the feeling is mutual. Romance ensues along with great consternation among the townspeople, and Archer's mother and friends. This book is a fast read which doesn't lose your interest. A good mystery! Loved it.

This definitely did not meet its publisher reviews. If this is supposed to be a Mystery/Thriller, I don't understand the genre. It is in fact a not well written romance.

I'm glad I didn't buy the rest of the series.

The narrator contributes to the weakness of this book. If this narrator has ever been to Mississippi, she slept through it.

Don't waste a credit, your dollars, or your time.

I bought the first two books in this series because they were highly rated and we were terribly disappointed. The plot is weak, the characters are shallow and inconsistant and we didn't bother finishing either of them.

Probably not, only because I did not enjoy the narrator--she had to work too hard for the southern accents, the men character versus the ladies versus the kids as well. I wish she had just read the book, noting who said .... She should not try to do southern accents, read because I think she has a good voice.I say I would sit and read it, but then the majority of the time, I don't have the time to sit down and read at all, so listening on the go works very well for me.

Clay and then Grace. I just knew somehow he as going to save the day. His book is next and I can't wait.

Probably not, only because I did not enjoy the narrator--she had to work too hard for the southern accents, the men character versus the ladies versus the kids as well. I wish she had just read the book, noting who said .... She should not try to do southern accents,just read because I think she has a good voice.

No, needed a break from the narrator--no more southern accents for her.

I like Brenda Novak books and will mostly read them all--loved the

More romance than suspense. The southern accents are beyond awful! Where in the south do people actually sound like that?

This is the perfect book for the simple-minded romantic. The characters are over-developed in that after each character is introduced, defined then the author continues to pummel the reader with examples ad nauseam of what the character represents. The main characters are much like those in a cartoon except that cartoon characters are more subtle. The only thing that is worse about this book is the goofiest rendition of a southern accent I have ever has the displeasure to endure.