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Light in Shadow by Jayne Ann Krentz

Screaming walls haunt Zoe Luce, making her choice of career seem a little bizarre to me. As an interior designer, Zoe spends a lot of time in strangers' homes. While checking out the space of one of her newer clients, she discovers just such a set of screaming walls, and she becomes certain something terrible happened in her client's bedroom.

Ethan Truax is the PI she hires to help her discover the truth of what might have happened in that particular room. Despite his disturbing habit of forgetting that he works for her, when her own past comes back to haunt her, Zoe enlists Truax's help.

Light in Shadow kept me in suspense longer than most of Krentz's books, and that was one reason I truly enjoyed the mystery this time around. However, the romance between Zoe and Ethan seemed slow to develop throughout the course of the book, and I discovered why at the end.

It follows Ms. Krentz pattern of late to leave room for a sequel, and for that reason, I was disappointed. Everyone seems to have moved to writing series, and that may be great for some, but I'm not a fan of series where the same characters return time and again, stretching out their tale over the course of three, and sometimes even more, books. I read romance because I like happy endings and nice, neat resolutions.

So, for that reason, and despite the strength of the suspense plot, I'm not giving this particular book 3 hearts. Only 2.

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