Killer Dreams (Eve Duncan)
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Purchased yesterday from A Peek in the Attic (formerly Old Mission Thrift Shop) at 2640 Broad, San Luis Obispo, CA
Second copy of this book that I have gotten. My review of the other copy:
Doctor and scientist Sophie Dunston is haunted by the murder-suicide deaths of her father and mother, brought about indirectly by a drug she herself invented. Having left the fold of the company where she developed the formula as an aid to people with "night terrors", she is now determined to bring down the founder of that company, Sanborne, as a way to stop him from using the drug for evil purposes never intended.
Sophie's son Michael is another victim: he suffers from severe nightmares that sometimes result in sleep apnea (stopping breathing) and therefore Sophie keeps a sleep monitor on him at night. A friend, Jock, usually takes on the monitoring when Sophie can't be there, and he is staying with her when the story begins.
When Sophie is attacked by a man apparently intent on killing her, she is saved by another man, Matt Royd, who for his own reasons is also intent on ridding the world of Sanborne's plans for the drug. From here on, Matt and Sophie are inextricably bound in a mission, although neither initially likes it.
Matt, Royd, and a third man, "the Laird" - MacDuff, share similar characteristics. They are like clones with minor variations in how they look and act. All are experts in the manly arts of killing and maiming. All are passionate in their quests. They are, in a word, out of another time, actually from a time that probably never existed.
Sophie, of course, comes from a place where it is dangerous to trust another, and she is expert in the female lead skills of quickly taking offense and getting a bit hot-headed.
What I am saying, of course, is that the two main characters are the same two you will meet in just about every book labeled "romantic suspense". To its credit, although there is a lot of hungering for sex in this book, there aren't a whole lot of blink-by-blink accounts of the act itself. We can be grateful for small favors.
I was a bit mystified by the specific drug that is the focus of this book. It is referred to as a "formula" and it is to be found on a specific computer disk. Part of the efforts Matt and Sophie make are aimed at getting and destroying that disk. It isn't possible to copy a disk? How do they know there aren't dozens of copies out there? But of course this type story often includes improbable sequences and situations.
Doctor and scientist Sophie Dunston is haunted by the murder-suicide deaths of her father and mother, brought about indirectly by a drug she herself invented. Having left the fold of the company where she developed the formula as an aid to people with "night terrors", she is now determined to bring down the founder of that company, Sanborne, as a way to stop him from using the drug for evil purposes never intended.
Sophie's son Michael is another victim: he suffers from severe nightmares that sometimes result in sleep apnea (stopping breathing) and therefore Sophie keeps a sleep monitor on him at night. A friend, Jock, usually takes on the monitoring when Sophie can't be there, and he is staying with her when the story begins.
When Sophie is attacked by a man apparently intent on killing her, she is saved by another man, Matt Royd, who for his own reasons is also intent on ridding the world of Sanborne's plans for the drug. From here on, Matt and Sophie are inextricably bound in a mission, although neither initially likes it.
Matt, Royd, and a third man, "the Laird" - MacDuff, share similar characteristics. They are like clones with minor variations in how they look and act. All are experts in the manly arts of killing and maiming. All are passionate in their quests. They are, in a word, out of another time, actually from a time that probably never existed.
Sophie, of course, comes from a place where it is dangerous to trust another, and she is expert in the female lead skills of quickly taking offense and getting a bit hot-headed.
What I am saying, of course, is that the two main characters are the same two you will meet in just about every book labeled "romantic suspense". To its credit, although there is a lot of hungering for sex in this book, there aren't a whole lot of blink-by-blink accounts of the act itself. We can be grateful for small favors.
I was a bit mystified by the specific drug that is the focus of this book. It is referred to as a "formula" and it is to be found on a specific computer disk. Part of the efforts Matt and Sophie make are aimed at getting and destroying that disk. It isn't possible to copy a disk? How do they know there aren't dozens of copies out there? But of course this type story often includes improbable sequences and situations.
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
At impromptu meeting with princess-peapod.
At impromptu meeting with princess-peapod.
