I should probably start by talking about the novel’s thriller elements. One of the first things that I will say about this novel is that it is a really enjoyable suspense thriller, with fairly good detective and romance elements too 🙂 Yes, it doesn’t reinvent the wheel or anything like that, but if you want a fun, relaxing “feel good” thriller novel that is vaguely reminscent of TV shows like “NCIS” or a slightly more “realistic” mid-budget version of the movie “ Speed“, then this one is definitely worth a read 🙂 Someone is trying to kill Nina and it is up to him to catch them before they do… When Sam hears about it, he rushes to the scene and discovers a bullet hole in the car window. Sometime later, Nina is run off of the road by another car and survives the crash with only minor injuries. None of it makes any sense, the previous attacks having all taken place in warehouses and places like that. When he arrives there, he questions Nina and examines the crime scene. Then, a few minutes later, Sam gets a call about the church. However, none of the bomb squad have any real leads on the latest spate of bombings, other than physical evidence that suggests that the culprit may be a copy-cat attacker who is following in the footsteps of a recently-deceased bomb-maker called Vincent Spectre. Luckily for Sam, the chief has his back and is able to get the D.A. about the death of a rookie cop in a warehouse blast sometime earlier. Meanwhile, local bomb squad detective Sam Navarro is getting an angry lecture from the D.A. They sit in the car outside the church, whilst he tries to give her a reassuring talk about how unexpected things happen and that fate can be a mysterious thing. After sending her sister away, Nina eventually meets the priest and asks him to give her a lift home. Nina Cormier is hiding in one of the back rooms, stricken by disbelief at the fact that her fiancee – Robert Bledsoe – has called off their wedding at the last minute, leaving her there with lots of gifts to return and lots of money wasted on a wedding dress. The novel begins in a church in Portland, Maine. This is the 2014 Harlequin MIRA (UK) paperback omnibus that contained the copy of “Keeper Of The Bride” that I read.

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