Red Hot Lies

By: Laura Caldwell

Narrated by: Nancy Liem

"Usually I pride myself on my intuition. I listen to that voice that says, 'Something bad is happening...' or maybe 'Get out. Now.' But on that Tuesday at the end of October, my psyche must have been protecting the one remaining day I still believed life was orderly and the universe liked me. Because I didn't hear that voice. I never saw it coming."

They say bad things happen in threes. When her fiancé, Sam, disappears on the same day her mentor and biggest client is killed, hotshot Chicago attorney Izzy McNeil starts counting. But trouble keeps coming. Sam is implicated in the client's death, her apartment is broken into and it's not just the authorities who are following her.

Now, to find Sam and uncover her client's murderer, Izzy will have to push past limits she never imagined. Lucky for her she's always thrived under pressure, because her world is falling apart. Fast. And the trail of half-truths and lies is red-hot.

Listen now to author Laura Caldwell and narrator Nancy Liem discuss how the three Izzy McNeil mysteries - Red Hot Lies, Red Blooded Murder, and Red, White & Dead - came together in the Audible studios.©2009 Laura Caldwell (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

not a great book

I did get through the book but not a great good. The narrators voice is the only reason I got through the book. Not one I will read again for sure, nor will I try the other books in the series. One was enough.

Disappointing! Never ending!

OMG! I didn't think this book would ever get over. Author would go on tangents that weren't necessary to the story. Terrible ending and a bit predictable. Why leave the ending hanging, after listening what seemed like days and days to get to the finish you don't even give us closure... Sorry I wasted my money on this one!

Interesting story but way too long

The story line itself is interesting, it just takes forever to get anywhere. Without giving too much away, the heroine is a lawyer working mostly for one self-made man named Forrester, who is extremely lovable, and early on in the novel, dies from a (suspicious) heart attack. In the night of the death, her fiance Sam, a financial advisor to Forrester, takes off with 30 million dollars of Forrester's money. For most of the novel she keeps repeating her doubts about Sam, who apparently is so different from the man she'd thought he was. She also attempts to find out whether Forrester's heart attack was what it seemed to be, as he'd asked her to do just that should he die suddenly.
I don't want to remove what little suspense there is, but there are a pile of pointers about what had really happened and I kept waiting through all the numerous versions of "how could Sam do this", hoping there'd be a more interesting twist eventually. There wasn't. The whole story, except for the final knowledge who the bad guy was, is extremely predictable. It was a waste of time to listen through the whole thing. So my apologies for going on for ages myself, but I felt "good story but too long" is not quite sufficient to explain why I'm so annoyed with the thing.

No idea what the book is like!

The narrator was so god awful had to stop listening within two minutes of starting. Geez, have never heard anything worse! The book could be great! The story could be great! But I'll never know unless I borrow it to visually read it. Even my Alexa reads better!