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"This action thriller never slows down"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 25, 2005

Before he died, brilliant online game maker Archibald Grimaldi developed the most popular role playing game yet when he created PSW (Play, Survive, Win). The participant would answer questions about themselves and if approved would be assigned as a Target, Protector, or Assassin. The Target would run around the Read more...

"Wild Ride in the City with Sexy Single"
Reviewed by Linda Hurst
Posted June 2, 2005

In The Givenchy Code, Julie Kenner has pulled off a perfect hat trick: a non-stop action plot that has likable characters and great humor. Melanie Prescott is a wonderful and unique heroine. She can dish Manolos, Jimmy Chu's and Givenchy with the best of the other New York City Read more...

"I read this book in three hours! It was that good!"
Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted July 10, 2005

I am sorry to say that I avidly consumed this book in three hours. I simply could not put it down. I always feel guilty when I read a book this quickly because I know the author works long and hard to write a book but sometimes when a book Read more...

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Summary

As if a recent break-up, scrounging for rent money, and lusting after designer shoes weren't enough to make graduate student Melanie Prescott's life challenging, suddenly she's practically living The DaVinci Code. A mysterious stranger is sending obscure codes and clues her way and she soon discovers she has to solve them in order to stay alive. With stakes like that, her dissertation on "the derivation and primary characteristics of codes and ciphers used by prevailing nations during wartime" is looking a little less important than it was yesterday. Right now she's just worrying about living to see tomorrow. The only bright spot in the whole freakish nightmare is Matthew Stryker, the six-foot tall dark and handsome stranger who's determined to protect her. Well, that and the millions of dollars that will be her reward if she survives this deadly game. And she'd better survive. Because that's a heck of a lot of money to be able to spend on shoes and handbags and sunglasses and dresses, and, well, it's hard to be fashionable when you're dead.