Christiane Heggan Now You Die

Now You Die

Christiane Heggan

Mira, Nov 2005, $6.99, 384 pp.

ISBN: 0778322289

Upon discovering the corpse, cartoonist Zoe Foster calls 911. However, when the cops arrive, there is no body. Zoe has no idea what happened except that she believes strongly that she saw a dead woman who somehow vanished.

Zoe, whose sleuthing experience resides totally with the comic strip female detective, Kitty Floyd which she draws, decides to investigate. As she digs deeper, Zoe feels the male race has welcomingly invaded her space. First her ex-husband promised even after the divorce to be there for her. Then there is the cop who took down her statement and in spite of the lack of evidence tends to believe her. Finally another blast from the past has returned into her life. Three hunks and a corpse, what more can a woman ask for; however someone watches her progress very carefully in case it becomes essential to twist the plot line by murdering the cartoonist.

This action-packed romantic amateur sleuth tale grips the audience from the moment the body disappears and never slows down until the final confrontations (romantically and perilously). Zoe is a super lead player keeping the story line moving on two fronts; her personal life and the case until the two aspects coalesce into a strong thriller with a dangerous culprit waiting to strike while several men try to keep the heroine safe. Christine Heggan provides a powerful romantic suspense investigative tale that will bring this popular author a myriad of new diehards.

Harriet Klausner