If You Hear Her: A Novel of Romantic Suspense [Mass Market Paperback]

Here's another book in which the heroine has a disability. It's the 3rd book I've read in the last several where the heroine has a physical or health related handicap. In If You Hear Her, Lena is blind which I found very different and unusual and was quite interested to see how her disability would play out within the story.

Walker portrayed Lena as an independent woman, holding down a job as a chef at an Inn no less and living her life as if she wasn't handicapped at all. I was impressed with Lena's attitude and her abilities. Of course she has a trusty sidekick in her guide dog Puck - whom I loved. And a new man heating up her love life Ezra King.

Ezra King is a state cop on disability leave, trying to recover after being shot and betrayed by a partner and a lover. Lots of baggage, guilt and nightmares there.

Ezra and Lena make a connection from their first meeting, but it's not all smooth sailing when he gets a case of cold feet when he thinks his feelings for Lena may be spiralling out of control a bit fast.

In If You Hear Her we know that someone in the town is killing people, we just don't know why, other than he's messed up and we really have no idea who it is. Walker has done a masterful job of keeping us guessing and keeping the killer's identity under wraps. I have my guess, but until I read books 2 and 3 in the series I won't know if I'm right or not.

I did try to get the info out of Puck...because we all know - he knows who the killer is based on several of his reactions throughout the story. I tried to bribe him with doggie treats - but he was keeping those doggy lips zipped tight.

Rounding out the cast is Law Reilly - one of Lena's closest friends in town and a suspect for a time and his childhood friend and battered wife Hope. These two look like they are the main characters in the next two books coming in 2012.

If you don't like the cliff-hanger ending plot devise used by a lot of authors, then you might want to wait til the other books in this series are released before you start reading If You Hear Her because you aren't going to get a resolution to the investigation in this book. I bet we don't get it until book 3.