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"An exciting romantic suspense that never slows down"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 6, 2001

After several years of marriage, Julie Carlson realizes that her spouse Sid slips out every evening at midnight when he thinks she is fast asleep. Julie figures Sid is cheating and plans to catch him with his lover. She pretends to sleep and when he leaves follow him Read more...

"Sizzling and Frightening"
Reviewed by Marilyn Heyman
Posted January 7, 2002

Julie Carlson thought she had it all. She won a coveted beauty contest then married the man of her dreams. But something has gone terribly wrong. After eight years of marriage, her husband, Sid, was no longer interested in her and left the house several nights a Read more...

"Fast, funny and exciting!"
Reviewed by Linda Hurst
Posted January 28, 2002

Karen Robards is a master of the quick, funny exciting read. Her backlist includes classics like WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT and NIGHT MAGIC and fans of these two should love TO TRUST A STRANGER. Robards' deft touch with action and humor is well displayed here. The opening prologue is extremely Read more...

Karen Robards, who delivered "a racy read" (Cosmopolitan) in her acclaimed besteller Paradise County, once again electrifies the page with hardwired passion and thrilling suspense in this heart-pounding new novel.

Suspicion. It burned through every nerve and Şber of Julie Carlson -- the heartbreaking, infuriating suspicion that her husband was having an affair. To the rest of the world, Sid Carlson was a wealthy contractor with friends in highly inşuential places. But to Julie, he was a man who had cheated on their marriage vow -- and she knew she had to take desperate measures. Who can she trust? Heartbroken by her husband, Julie turns to a handsome stranger.

Mac McQuarry knew better than to mix women and work: the private detective had tracked enough cheating spouses to know unbridled desire usually has no good end. And he had enough trouble of his own: the disgraced former cop had been bumped way down to his current status after an explosive shakedown of the Charleston police department. But when Julie Carlson hires him, Mac can't resist. Not only is she drop-dead gorgeous, but her husband, a longtime enemy, was a player in Mac's inglorious downfall -- and he'd love nothing more than to catch the corrupt jerk with his pants down, so to speak.

But what begins as a run-of-the-mill assignment spiced by a Şery şirtation with beautiful Julie suddenly spirals into a harrowing race for survival. Tracking the Carlsons' car down a lonely road one night, Mac witnesses an incredible hit that targeted Julie -- and suddenly Mac and Julie have become the hunted. With the mob and the police in hot pursuit, they can rely only on each other as they crash their way through a maze of buried secrets and deadly deceptions.