Andrea Kane Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Andrea Kane

Morrow, Jan 2006, $21.95, 336 pp.

ISBN: 0060741325

Sally Montgomery and Frederick Pierson go away on a romantic tryst that has Devon the adult daughter of the woman worried about her mom who has not really dated anyone since her divorce fifteen years ago. Sally shares some of her daughter's concern as she is nervous about her romantic rendezvous, afraid that something will go wrong.

Something does when someone murders Blake and burns down the cabin that the pair was using. The cops assume Sally is the prime suspect while she is on the lam fearing her boyfriend's father is somehow involved and after her. Her former husband, an ex NYPD detective turned sleuth Pete "Monty" Montgomery rushes to Duchess County, New York to learn the truth and more important to protect the mother of his children. Devon also tries to prove her mom's innocence, but admits to herself she finds Frederick's nephew Blake quite attractive though he seems to want to hang her mother for killing his uncle.

Readers will believe this is the right place, right time to enjoy Amanda Kane's latest romantic suspense thriller. The story line is action-packed as two families converge with different opinions as to whether the beleaguered Sally killed Frederick. Pets provide comic relief unless you are the victim of their stealing your roast beef or chaperoning your lovemaking. Fans will appreciate this fine class war who-done-it as the street wise middle class battles with the snooty upper class in a suburbian tense tale.

Harriet Klausner