Annotation 1: Romantic Suspense

Relentless by Jan Hambright

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Publication Date: August 1, 2005

Number of Pages: 256 pages

Geographical Setting: New Orleans and Bayou Gauche in Louisiana

Time Period: Contemporary

Series: Harlequin Intrigue #865

Plot Summary: Officer Mick Jacoby has left homicide for the auto theft division, determined to uncover who killed his wife and daughter five years earlier in a hit-and-run following an auto theft. From his years in the auto theft division of the police department, Mick has heard the name Robear come up multiple times in case investigations. When a routine auto-theft investigation leads him to ex-car thief turned repo-agent Kate Robear, he is convinced that she is somehow involved in the hit-and-run that killed his wife and daughter. Has she really abandoned her family’s life of crime for a law-abiding repo-agent job? Kate soon finds herself in several dangerous situations. Mick then vows to protect her. He is determined to find out who is responsible for killing his wife and daughter, and he believes Kate is the answer to solving this long unsolved case. The romance unfolds intensely and quickly at the end.

Subject Headings:

Crime

Police

Automobile thieves

Homicide

Romantic suspense

Love stories

 

Appeal: Fast paced, suspenseful, and romantic (tone/frame)

Similar Authors: Delores Fossen (writes fast paced, suspenseful, and action-packed romantic suspense), Paula Graves (crime, police, and romantic relationships are common in her books), and Tess Geritsen (romantic relationships, suspense, mystery, police and women detectives).

Read-Alike Book Titles: Courting Disaster: an Angie Amalfi Mystery by Joanne Pence, Into the Corner by Marisa  Carroll and Silent Warning by Kathleen Long.

Courting Disaster and Into the Corner both are about romantic suspense titles that contain similar subject headings of police and homicide elements.

Silent Warning has similar elements of suspense, mystery, romance, and an action-driven plot.