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"Joyce excels at creating twists and turns in her characters' personal lives."--Publishers Weekly

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The time is turn-of-the-century New York City. Society's elite host glittering balls inside sprawling mansions while outside, the teeming street harbor secrets of their own.

New York City's Police Commissioner Rick Bragg has been called upon to investigate a shocking crime. Reluctant to pull Francesca into a case that could be very dangerous, Rick also knows the beautiful and brilliant heiress has a natural ability for sleuthing that could aid him--even it if means working side by side with a woman who tempts him like no other. And so Franscesca and Rick begin a harrowing journey through the squalid underworld of the city that plunges them deeper and deeper in a peril neither could have imagined--and a desire that only continues to grow...

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Francesca Cahill began to plot how to steal out of the house the moment she awoke. Read the first page

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4.0 out of 5 stars Another Good Deadly Novel, July 9 2004

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BrwnEyedNurs (VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deadly Desire (Mass Market Paperback)

This like all of the novels in the series is worth reading. I love the interactions between the characters, especially Francesca and Hart.

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4.0 out of 5 stars This one will hold your attention!, Mar 3 2004

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This review is from: Deadly Desire (Mass Market Paperback)

Set in 1902. New York City's Police Commissioner Rick Bragg was dragged into another crime investigation with Francesca Cahill. This time Francesca was out to help her best friend, Sarah Channing. Sarah's home had been broken into and a few of the paintings she had been creating had been destroyed. But was it an attack against Sarah or against one of the two people who were the subjects of the paintings that had been destroyed?

Add to this a love triangle involving Francesca, Rick, and Calder, as well as, someone stalking Lucy (Rick and Calder's sister).

**** This book is a mixture of adventure, excitement, and mysteries. The love triangle seems to continue in each book of the series. There is always something going on to hold the attention of the readers. Great reading! ****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

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5.0 out of 5 stars deliciously entertaining, Oct 25 2003

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lusty22 "avid reader" (VT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deadly Desire (Mass Market Paperback)

I can't believe some of the dumb reviews this series has gotten. No one is pretending this series is supposed to be anything other than what it is. It is a romantic and mysterious series. It delivers on that in a fantastic way. Miss Cahill is a very likeable character. Someone suggested she was overwrought. Well, she is 20 years old and it is 1902, so seeing some of the shocking things she has encountered would cause that, especially in one so innocent. I find her endearing and would be very sad indeed were she any other way. She also has fallen in love for the first time in her life, so I would imagine she is going to have Mr. Bragg on her mind alot. Especially since this is a romance series. The mysteries are good, they keep me guessing. The...[extreme] chemistry between the characters is stunning and provacative. I love the triangle of Calder, Francesca, and Rick Bragg. I am not usually a big fan of romance, but Brenda Joyce has a way of writing that is very addicitive. At least in this series. I do not like her modern novels as well. This series is a guilty little pleasure one should allow themself, like a soap opera. It is not meant to be serious or brilliant, but in a way it is quite intelligent just fot the simple fact that it can whisk one away with such force. Is'nt that the point of reading sometimes? There is nothing like a good escape. Not every book is meant to make us think or expand our horizons for goodness sake. Anyone who does not like these books probably is not the type to sit in a hot bath and eat chocolates... If that is what you like, then read these books beginning with the first. You will not be disappointed.

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2.0 out of 5 stars heroine is a tad overwrought
I might have given it more stars if the heroine were more intelligent and less overwrought. I did enjoy reading it, but Fran seems too obsessed with Bragg to think coherently. Read more

Published on April 18 2003

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Reading, But Needs Some Kind of Conclusion!
I received one of Brenda Joyce's Deadly series novels as a gift and upon reading it (Deadly Affair) I promptly went in search of the rest of the series. Read more

Published on Jan 27 2003 by D Cote