- Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Juno Books (Oct 28 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0809573040
- ISBN-13: 978-0809573042
- Product Dimensions: 16.6 x 10.6 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #310,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Product Description
Delilah and her partner - tall, dark, handsome, and Hispanic ex-FBI guy Ric Montoya - are busy solving a "Romeo and Juliet" double-murder and she's got plenty more to deal with: vampires, werewolves, and tigers, oh my!
About the Author
Carole Nelson Douglas, author of more than fifty fantasy and science fiction, mystery, mainstream, and romance novels, was an award-winning reporter and editor for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. After writing some bestselling high fantasy novels and SF thrillers, she imported fantasy notions into her Midnight Louie mystery series, which features a hard-boiled Las Vegas PI who’s a feline “Sam Spade with hairballs.” Her Irene Adler historical series made Carole the first author to use a woman from the Sherlock Holmes stories as a protagonist in the 1991 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Good Night, Mr. Holmes. She’s won or been short-listed for more than fifty writing awards in nonfiction, sf/fantasy, mystery, and romance genres, including several from the Romance Writers of America and Romantic Times BOOKreviews magazine, and the Cat Writers’ Association. In 2008, RT BOOKreviews magazine named Carole a “pioneer of the publishing industry. Carole and husband Sam Douglas, a former art museum exhibitions director and kaleidoscope designer, are kept as pets by five stray cats and a dog in Fort Worth, Texas. She collects vintage clothing, and does a mean Marilyn Monroe impersonation, and, yes, she does dance, but not with werewolves. As far as she knows.
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3.2 out of 5 stars (16 customer reviews)
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Please get a different editor for your next book!, Jan 27 2009
By Tamara Deschepper - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Brimstone Kiss: Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator (Mass Market Paperback)
I read a lot of novels, and this was the most painful novel I've read in years. Painful because the characters and setting were so interesting and I really wanted to know more - but the editing was so bad!Possible spoilers ahead - read on with caution...
This book read like a first draft - maybe they just printed the wrong version? There were numerous times where you could see how the writer was figuring out how to develop her story. For example, Del and Ric go to the morgue. They have a little conversation about now that the werewolves know that they dug up the boss's daughter, they need to ID the other corpse pronto. Once the police announce both ID's, they'll be a lot safer. Then Ric makes a cute suggestive comment and they enter the morgue.
Next chapter - Del and Ric are in the park having lunch. He asks her where she's been. She announces the ID of the dead woman, Ric says "That's big news!" then proceeds with the same comments he made at the morgue. Including the exact same cute comment word for word! While this was perhaps interesting from the creative process point of view (do I bring readers up to date at the morgue or the park?) it makes reading the book difficult. Especially since this was not the only occurrence of a continuity problem. With a decent editor, this could have been a much better book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Left Hanging! AGAIN!, Oct 25 2008
By Cindymac52 "Cin:D" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Brimstone Kiss: Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator (Mass Market Paperback)
I absolutely love the character of Delilah Street. For such a rough beginning in life she is a delightfully well rounded young lady. The story line is wonderful, and I think it's fine that an author gives you hints as to the line the next book in a series might take. But WHY do authors feel they must leave you hanging? If I wanted a soap opera cliffhanger... I would just watch soap operas. If the book is GOOD we will buy the next in the series. Please, get a clue, end the book, and pick it up again where we left our hero!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Bad girl Bad bad bad, Dec 16 2008
By Darilee Bednar "bookstorelady" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Brimstone Kiss: Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator (Mass Market Paperback)
I like Nelson's books and writing. I really enjoyed the first book Dancing With Werewolves. So I paid full price for a new book (I own a used bookstore so that's a big deal). Excited and sick with the flu I started reading.. and there was NOTHING new until page 288 or so of this 400 page book.Nelson starts with a brief intro which is cool because book one was full of introductions to this person and that situation. And then Nelson retells book one for nearly 288 pages.
Example: I was in the middle of the Brimstone Kiss when Delilah again reflects how lucky she was that she lived in an enchanted cottage where two forlorn lovers found each other... and I think wait is that the third or fourth time she has said that... and as a good researcher I should go back and count the number to times she redundantly says/whines/daydreams/gloats about her cottage (shoot I should count how many times I use ... ) but I'm can't because I'm always goin' to associate this book with the flu.
Delilah revisits Howard Hughes, Snow, her horrible childhood, the weatherwitch, and that slimy police detective who gets bit in the you know what again. Sex acts with Ric... Lost count of those also(made the book read faster as I skip those) ... and a freaking cliff hanger. Bad girl Bad bad bad ....
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