"This one gets your heart pumping!"

Patricia Rasey's e-pubbed book KISS OF DECEIT kept me riveted to my seat for most of the evening. Her book made my heart race, my head pound and I bit my fingernails down to the quick. It started out with a bang and didn't let up even on the very last page!

Marcus "Snake" Gallego has just been arrested for the murder of his wife, Jillian. She had been a stripper and had known a lot of guys. Marcus had been heard to have threatened to strangle her. Then she's found strangled. LeAnn McVeigh was the detective who arrested Marcus but something just didn't seem to add up so LeAnn decides to do a little more investigating.

Suddenly there are lots of women being strangled. One had been strangled when Marcus was in jail so there's no way he could have done it. LeAnn keeps digging into the murders much to the chagrin of her fiance, Chad Baker, the Prosecutor for the town. He wanted an open and shut case. It's not turning out that way.

The more LeAnn digs into the murders, the more clues she gets. The problem is the clues lead in so many different directions. Will she ever figure this out and get this case solved?

The exploding conclusion took me completely by surprise! I thoroughly enjoyed this book and look forward to reading more of Patricia Rasey's work.

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted October 14, 2002

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Summary

Another tale of madness, murder, and passion from the newest queen of suspense. Marcus "Snake" Gallego lives in the fast lane. Play hard, ride fast, die young. But nothing seems to touch him, not until his faithless wife turns up dead, and a pretty little detective slams his head against a bar, cuffing his hands behind his back. LeAnne McVeigh has a murderer to catch and "Snake" is a prime suspect according to her fiancé, the County prosecutor. She fights her growing attraction to the biker, but the pull is too strong to ignore and more than that, he proves to be her friend in adversity.