"A sexy librarian, a professor and a dead body!"

This is Nancy Warren's first single title and boy is it exactly the kind of book I simply love to read. It has all the aspects of what I enjoy in a book and so much more! There's a bit of mystery, lots of humorous situations and hot steamy encounters of the sexual kind. Yummy!

Just when Duncan Forbes thinks nothing can get any worse, he finds out that Franklin Forrest, the man he came to interview about a missing painting, has died. Then he is caught dead to rights looking up the skirt of the drop dead gorgeous librarian who dresses like a hooker. Then he finds out that said librarian is the granddaughter of the guy he wanted to interview. Then she fines him $141 for writing in one of her library books. What else can go wrong?

When librarian Alexandria Forrest finds a dead body in the art section in her library, she wonders why she has to be so lucky to have Duncan Forbes comes into the library first thing. At least he tries to help her out when she goes for the police. Duncan wonders if this dead body has anything to do with his investigation. It's not until a few other anomalies happen that Duncan is sure it all ties into his investigation but how can he crack the case without Alexandria getting wise to him. He just needs to make sure that she doesn't know anything about the painting or her grandfather's secret. Meanwhile he and Alex, much to their chagrin, find they are much too attracted to each other for their own good. After all, neither of them is going to be in this Podunk town for too much longer, right?

Then of course there's Alex's needy cousin Gillian. Can Alex help Gill or does she need as much help as her ex-husband keeps alluding to? Course there's Sergeant Tom Perkins who's been crazy about Gill since they were teenagers. Can he and Gill do it right this time around?

Nancy Warren is one of my favorite authors and this book is just one of the reasons why. She always delivers a thoroughly enjoyable book no matter what she writes. I look forward to each and every book!

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted January 25, 2004

Summary

Can't a guy look up a woman's skirt...

...without losing part of his anatomy? It isn't my fault the town librarian, aka Miss Alex Forrest, likes to perch on high heels and tall ladders for a guy's maximum viewing pleasure. The lady's bod and choice of outfit may be muy caliente, but the gaze is icy. Freezing. Arctic-in-a- bikini cold. Give her time. She'll come around to the old Duncan Forbes charm. And once I have that Alex in bed, she'll tell me everything I need to know about this town and its link to the lost painting my employers paid me to find...

I'd rather eat drain cleaner...

...than spend one more minute with that smug, big-city art professor, Duncan Forbes. The "Indiana Jones of the Art World"? Please. He couldn't find the Architecture stack till I pointed it out. And if I grabbed hold of his well- toned arm, it's not because he happens to be the sexiest man ever to destroy my Dewey Decimal System, it's because I'm not used to finding a dead body in my library and a girl can be excused a weak moment...

In the town of Swiftcurrent, Oregon, things are heating up. Dead bodies and missing masterpieces, family secrets and dangerous threats, a man who likes to feel his way around a problem and a woman who enjoys being the problem...it's all adding up to the kind of steamy sleuthing that just may lead them both beyond temptation and put their desires in drive...