Dark Paradise
Written by Tami Hoag
Narrated by Joyce Bean
4/5
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About this audiobook
New Eden, Montana, is a piece of heaven on earth where one woman died in her own private hell. Now it’s up to ex-court reporter Marilee Jennings to decipher the puzzle of her best friend’s death. But someone has a stake in silencing her suspicion. Someone with secrets worth killing for—and the power to turn this beautiful haven into a...Dark Paradise.
And as Mari digs deeper beneath New Eden’s picture-perfect exterior, finding the truth is suddenly no longer a matter of justice.
It’s her only hope of staying alive.
Tami Hoag
Tami Hoag is the #1 international bestselling author of more than thirty books, with more than thirty-eight million copies of her books in print in more than thirty languages. She lives in Florida.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I wasn't sure if this was a poorly written suspense novel with absolutely no suspense, or a sleazy romance masquerading as a murder mystery. In either case, this book has no intrigue whatsoever. I almost forgot that the main character's friend was killed. It is hardly ever mentioned. However, even with this fault it was entertaining as a romance novel.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Didn't like the second half.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good book, enjoyed listening to it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A re-issue originally written in 1994, this story has lost remarkably little of its original appeal. Take one plucky heroine, an inheritance, a stubborn cowboy determined not to fall in love, a few quirky characters, and evil and powerful man and his hangers-on, mix well with a murder, a mysterious and threatening hermit, a few plot twists for interest and a gorgeous Montana backdrop. What more could one ask?
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5THOUGHT: I am happy to say that I really enjoyed it. The book opens with the crime being committed. You know who the victim is but during that scene, the identity of the killer is not revealed.
We then proceed to get to know the heroine, Marilee, a court reporter who has decided she needed a change in her life and travels to Montana to be with her friend Lucy. However, when she arrives at Lucy’s home in the mountains she finds the place ransacked and a mysterious and overbearing man who warns her away and tells her that Lucy is dead. Shocked Marilee decides to stay and find out what happened to Lucy.
There are several mysteries surrounding the town but the one about who killed Lucy is apparently solved to everyone’s satisfaction having been labeled a hunting accident. Marilee sees it as ironic the fact that the death of her friend only brought a slap in the wrist to her killer. Surprisingly she is informed that she is Lucy’s heir and the letter she left for her leads her to think that someone may have been behind the accident.
Undecided on what to do with her life and the property Lucy left her while at the same time intrigued by the people she meets Marilee decides to stay in town for a while. She soon develops a relationship with JD Rafferty, the owner of a neighboring ranch who has been feeding Lucy’s animals and keeps thinking of Marilee as just another Lucy. JD wants to buy the property and is determined to fight the Hollywood crowd who has recently invaded Montana leading to the prices going up and the ruin of local ranchers. This is the crowd Lucy ran with, so Marilee is also interested in them and what are they really involved in.
Things are not what they seem and when more people die the tension between the locals and the newcomers rises while at the same time Evan Bryce, the Hollywood tycoon who has been buying land, seems to have found a way to get to Rafferty’s lands through JD’s brother’s wife.
We do know who the bad people are from the beginning, it is more a question of why and how than of who. Marilee and JD are not new characters in the sense that we have read about the city girl who meets the lonesome cowboy before but I liked how Hoag wrote them and their story worked for me. This is a romantic suspense that is very heavy on romance, Rafferty was a bit overbearing and Marilee had to fight for every inch of his heart. Some people might have a problem with him as this feels as an old fashioned romance. I liked how the tension builds near the end when we find out what is really happening and the final confrontation scene. For me it was an interesting and compelling read.