However, when Pansy is killed, the entire small town goes into a frenzy mode and blames Fortune for her boss death. Fortune may not know beauty stuff, but she indeed knows how to improvise and get her way through. The later expertise is put to the test when Pansy requests Fortune to apply some makeup to children for a local beauty event. Now she is posing as a former town beauty queen, and this has created some Miss Congeniality style /Sandra Bullock moments as she had to get hair extensions and she is also expected to own a dress and understand the difference between mascara and eyeliner. Surprisingly, the little town is a hotbed of murder, intrigue, and weapon-toting citizens and keeping a low profile is almost impossible.įortune is a deadly assassin but has spent most of her entire adult life on missions or training. Lethal Bayou Beauty: In Lethal Bayou Beauty we meet Fortune, a highly trained CIA assassin/operative who is working as an undercover agent in the small town of Sinful, Louisiana just because a sinister has placed a price tag on her head. If you are a fan of thriller and mystery novels, you will find this book an absolute match, as the author spices it up to have the readers gripped to the last page.

The characters, the whole plot and the unfolding of each scene are brilliant, and you will find it hard to keep the novel down. The first novel in the series is an interesting read. Unfortunately, upon reporting to the police, she is dismissed since she lacks supporting evidence to her claims, but Shaye, the private investigator, is convinced that someone is seriously terrorizing Emma, playing a mouse and cat game but only with one goal in mind. However, someone is stalking her and tormenting her with the memories of her past. On the other hand, we meet Emma Frederick who thought that her nightmare was completely over after she murdered her abusive husband. Nine years later, she is now a licensed private investigator with only one specific goal in mind- to get the cases of her clients solved even when the clues are missing and hoping that she will one day find the answers to her past as well. However, her life effectively started the moment the police found her was beaten and with no memory of her last 15 years, she could not even remember her real name. Everyone always wondered about Shaye’s past including Shaye herself. Malevolent: From the New York Times, bestselling novelist comes the first novel in an excellent thriller series. Subsequently, The Vanishing was a top pick of the 2012 RT Book Reviews. The Reckoning was a top pick during the 2012 RT Book Reviews while The Secret of Cypriere Bayou won the 2011 RT Reviewers Choice Award for the First Series Romance.

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