Roxanne St. Claire

Contemporary/Bullet Catcher Series

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In the mid 1970s, when I was very, very young -- an infant, really -- there ran a television show I barely recall, yet am assured was very popular.

For an hour each week, three beautiful babes -- one buxom, one brainy and one blissfully blonde -- played P.I. for the detective agency run by a guy named Charles Townsend.

These broads were hot: There wasn't a mystery they couldn't solve, a bad guy they couldn't take down or a handgun that didn't look good in their grasps as they assumed myriad aggressive-yet-foxy stances.

Did we watch "Charlie's Angels" because it accurately depicted the lives of real woman breaking into a dangerous field male dominated before ERA?

Not hardly.

America watched because the chicks looked great and the show was an escapist, social-justice morality play that was exotic and sexy -- yet ultimately about as realistic as the chances of my Red Sox bagging another World Series in our lifetime.

Reality still isn't prerequisite when one is looking for escapist entertainment, and the stable of hot detectives premise works okey-dokey for a lot of us when the medium is the romance novel and said gumshoes also are alpha bad boy bodyguards looking to find great clues and some good women.

Roxanne St. Claire's got the sexy bodyguard thing down to an art form in "Thrill Me to Death," the fun and hot second novel in her dynamic "Bullet Catcher" series.

Max Roper is a former DEA agent assigned to guard Corrine Peyton, a wealthy and desirable young widow. Protecting her without dallying wouldn't usually be a problem for Max, but the bereaved has something Max can't pass up -- he made that mistake years before.

Cori Cooper was a young law student when she and Max fell in love. But the night Max and her father ran into trouble on a DEA job, Cori's heart broke as she surmised Max could have saved the older man's life.

Now faced with emotions and raw desire she never stopped feeling for him, Cori must prove and disprove Max's assumptions: Cori's husband was murdered, but she didn't do him in.

"Thrill Me to Death" is a terrific whodunit set in the swank world of the ultra-rich, complete with scheming trophy wives, burly Swedish masseurs and a cast of secondaries that add intrigue and quirky depth.

St. Claire expertly entertains through the novel's emotional twists and sensual turns, rocketing us through a series of exciting events that make this thriller one heck of a love story.

Add Max Roper and the Bullet Catchers to your stable of hunky romance heroes.

Buy the book.

www.RoxanneStClaire.com

Next week's review and AuthorView: "How to Seduce a Duke," by Kathryn Caskie