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    The Color of Death

    By Elizabeth Lowell

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    The name Elizabeth Lowell has become synonymous with electrifying fiction that seamlessly combines suspense, intrigue, and passion. And now the phenomenal New York Times bestselling author brilliantly displays her incomparable talents in a story of treachery, greed, conspiracy, and murder that will hold the reader spellbound until the final word.

    It is the opportunity of a lifetime for Kate Chandler, the chance to cut seven rare, priceless sapphires and solidify her reputation as a world-class jewel cutter. But something goes horribly, tragically wrong during what should have been a simple transfer of goods. The sapphires vanish without a trace. Missing also is the man Kate trusted to transport the gems: her half brother, Lee, who now, quite possibly, is dead. And suddenly she is on the run, pursued by federal agents who suspect her of being the criminal mastermind of a cunning bait-and-switch scheme.

    Special agent Sam Groves is one of the best of the best, an essential member of the FBI's elite crime strike force and the perfect man to lead the hunt, since he could never be scammed by a beautiful confidence woman. But something is troubling about this assignment, because someone else is chasing Kate Chandler as well.

    Only Kate suspects the awful truth: She's unwittingly stumbled into a conspiracy of deceit, betrayal, and cold-blooded murder that goes far beyond a simple jewel heist. And a chilling, threatening voice on the telephone only confirms her worst suspicions. Getting Sam Groves, the FBI agent who's her constant shadow, to believe her is a step in the right direction -- but it may be one that's too little too late in a bloody game where terror dictates her every move and the rules are constantly changing. Because the order has already been passed down to a ruthlessly efficient assassin: Kate Chandler must not be allowed to live ...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061740572
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    The Color of Death
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    Elizabeth Lowell

    New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell has more than eighty titles published to date with over twenty-four million copies of her books in print. She lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with her husband, with whom she writes novels under a pseudonym. Her favorite activity is exploring the Western United States to find the landscapes that speak to her soul and inspire her writing.

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    • 3/5
      Fast-paced, fairly enjoyable romantic suspense. I fear some of the plot elements would fall apart upon closer inspection (for instance, why did the murderer kill the brother when all the other murders were contracted out?) but it was decent brain candy for a lazy weekend.
    • 3/5
      Kate Chandler is a gem cutter whose brother was killed when acting as a courier for a group of gems she cut, brilliant sapphires known as the Seven Sins. Special Agent Sam Groves is on a special task force trying to figure out who is roughing up gem couriers and stealing the contents of their deliveries. When Kate tries to get the FBI to look into her brother's death, she gets a death threat of her own, and no one at the FBI will take her seriously except Sam. This book is part of a series known as Rarities Unlimited, although the reader is not required to have any back story from the previous novels to become engaged in this one. The reader is not left feeling as though there is some information missing or that the experience of reading would be made fuller with the past perusal of the prequels. I was worried when Lowell 'graduated' to romantic suspense from her core genre of straight romance. I imagined that the mystery would be flat, but the romance still steamy. The opposite is the case, however. The romance suffers only slightly in comparison to the mystery, but it does suffer. This is unfortunate, as I have long been a fan of Lowell's sensual prose. (By which I mean, her average sex scene does not make me either cringe with embarrassment or gag with syrupy sweetness.) Here, the relationship between the Agent and his Confidential Informant pales in comparison to the case they are trying to solve, and I feel it was just thrown in for Lowell's previous fans in a half-hearted manner. As I have said, the investigation is the heart of this plot. Nonetheless, I am intrigued by the gem industry (have read all of Lowell's Donovan series, which also deal with gems) and am always interested in learning more about it through fiction regarding it. I believe the other books in this series also reside in my library and am looking forward to them appearing next in my to-be-read list.