Where Danger Lies
by Donna Del
Oroi
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GENRE: Romantic
suspense
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BLURB:
Based on actual
circumstances, two cases prove that truth is indeed stranger than fiction as
FBI Special agent, Jake Bernstein, is pulled into two apparently unrelated
cases while on medical leave in San Diego.
A female officer assigned to Naval Base Coronado is killed and a Muslim
woman is viciously beaten and left for dead. Jake knows about seeking truth and
justice amid lies and deception. He suspects something else is at work, two
very different evils overlapping as two different worlds violently collide.
Meg Larsen has come to terms with Jake’s role in
her beloved grandmother’s death, accepts that he has a dangerous job, and is
proud of his role in thwarting terrorists who threatened countless lives. She’s
willing to aid him in his investigations but not so accepting of his refusal to
commit to her and give her a reason to alter her career plans.
Even as Jake arrives at a crossroads in his
relationship with Meg, he must stay alert and strive to keep both of them
safe. Although San Diego is sunny and
picture-perfect, you never know...WHERE DANGER LIES.
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EXCERPT:
“NCIs? What’s the crime, Admiral Snider?”
“Murder. One of the officers on my ship. I think an
objective look is needed.”
“What happened to him?”
“Her. Lieutenant Samantha Carlton was found dead in
the trunk of her car three days ago. The preliminary tox screen showed nothing,
but the lab did an advanced analysis. She’d been poisoned with ketamine. Made
her heart stop. She was forty-one and in excellent physical condition. Also,
someone crushed her larynx and windpipe.”
“Sounds like a case of overkill.” Jake rubbed the
underside of his chin from force of habit. Intriguing case but he really didn’t
want to get involved. "Perhaps premeditated, but made to look like a crime
of passion or rage? That’d be my off-the-cuff assessment.”
"Good, now we’re getting somewhere,” Rear
Admiral Snider said. “The local cops are pushing the NCI team in one direction.
Their theory doesn’t hold water, that it was a hate crime. Lieutenant Carlton
was gay, but more importantly, she had access to classified guided missile
codes.”
"Understood," Jake said, shaking his
head. National security was at issue here. Even unofficially, he was already
involved.
My Review:
I really enjoyed reading Where Danger Lies. To begin, I loved the characters. I don't like a book where all of the major characters are so good they don't seem real. Del Oro's characters have flaws. They refuse to trust, they lose their tempers, and they make messes from time to time. To me, this makes the characters seem more real.
Second, I the plot was ingenious. It was easy to follow, and I thought I knew exactly what was going to happen, but there are some twists and turns I never saw coming.
The story kept my interest from the first. I even stayed up late to finish the story. I recently found that this is book three in the Jake Bernstein series so I have some more books to read.
Highly recommended.
My Review:
I really enjoyed reading Where Danger Lies. To begin, I loved the characters. I don't like a book where all of the major characters are so good they don't seem real. Del Oro's characters have flaws. They refuse to trust, they lose their tempers, and they make messes from time to time. To me, this makes the characters seem more real.
Second, I the plot was ingenious. It was easy to follow, and I thought I knew exactly what was going to happen, but there are some twists and turns I never saw coming.
The story kept my interest from the first. I even stayed up late to finish the story. I recently found that this is book three in the Jake Bernstein series so I have some more books to read.
Highly recommended.
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Donna
Del Oro's dream since childhood (when she used to create her own comic books
and share them with her friends) has been to write fiction. Escaping the
humdrum of ordinary life always seemed to her an ideal form of
self-entertainment. Better than TV and even better than some books! As soon as
she retired from high school teaching (which was a suspenseful adventure in
itself), Donna turned to fiction writing. Becoming a member of the RWA and
Sisters in Crime has helped her to learn the craft and focus on what she needed
to do to get published.
Besides
writing Chica Lit, she writes romantic suspense and thrillers. Her two latest
SMART ROMANTIC THRILLERS are: A BODYGUARD OF LIES, LIES IN WAIT (Book Two) and
a paranormal thriller, THE DELPHI BLOODLINE. A BODYGUARD OF LIES takes place in
present-day England, Ireland and Germany with echoes back to WW II. A
Jewish-American FBI agent, who's fluent in German, goes undercover to
investigate an elderly, naturalized American grandmother, suspected of being a
Nazi spy and war criminal. LIES IN WAIT follows FBI agent, Jake Bernstein (now
a member of a CounterTerrorism Task Force), to Silicon Valley. Working
undercover as a Muslim biotech scientist, he is recruited to join a sleeper
cell intent on terrorist activities. All three of her published thrillers
remain on Musa Publishing's mystery imprint's Top Twenty Bestselling books.
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and
RAFFLECOPTER CODE
Donna Del Oroi will be awarding two autographed print copies (US
ONLY) to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
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