I did not make it very far into this novel without giving up. I could not get into the psycho killer priest character, and he seemed to be driving the plot. Also the repeated murders of solitary women walking around the city at night did not make me want to keep reading.

This novel may not be the quality of Roberts' newer work, but it delivers a satisfying romance and a surprise ending. It took me a few chapters to really feel riveted by the story, but I liked some of the characters right away.

This is one a die-hard Nora fan would want on her shelf.

Nora Roberts is the type of auther to keep you in suspense and unlike other romance writers, she always gives the reader little twists and turns that you don't expect. This book is a page turner!

This book has been sitting on my bookshelf for years and I have finally gotten around to reading it. It is, by far, one of the best Nora Roberts books I've ever read. It has everything-suspense, murder and romance and they don't get much better than this. The detective Ben Paris couldn't have been molded any more perfectly and Tess was pretty likeable even given her determination, as a pyschiatrist, to treat the man who ultimately tries to kill her. I loved the relationship between Ed and Ben and the dialogue, again, couldn't have been written any better. This is one of those books that you don't want to start reading unless you have a lot of free time because it's hard to put down. The only complaint I have is that it didn't end with much of a bang. A surprise, but not really a bang. It would have been more exciting, I think, to see Ben lose a little control.

Being an avid Nora fan, and having read many of her books, I find this story to be a good combination of mystery with subtle, but well-written romance. This is the first of the Ben Paris/Ed Jackson duo novels and since I read them in the wrong sequence, I was already familiar with the two police detectives. This is Ben and Tess's story on the mystery serial killer that brought the blonde, blue-eyed, well-to-do psychiatrist and the tall dark and handsome policeman together. A killer posing as a priest (murdering his victims with an amice-strangulation) is running wild and all the victims are blonde, petite women, very similar to Tess Court - the psychiatrist brought in on the case, much to Ben's dislike, to give a profile of the killer. The story of the romantic entanglement is predictable, however, as with all Nora stories, it is well written and easily blended in with the details and the efforts of searching for and capturing the killer. I was totally surprised by the outcome - had no idea who the killer was.