Judy Fitzwater No Safe Place

No Safe Place

Judy Fitzwater

Silhouette Bombshell, May 2006, $4.99

ISBN: 0373514050

Gilman College Professor Elizabeth Larocca thought she was ready for the time when her deceased husband Stephen's life returns to haunt her and her adult daughter Cara. She soon learns how unprepared she is when his corpse turns up at seas two weeks after he was buried. Worse his two "friends" visit her in what Elizabeth knows is not a friendly calling on the widow.

Needing to keep her child safe and to buy time, Elizabeth flees. Still she knows she will need to quietly investigate what Stephen did that got him murdered allegedly while skiing and what he did for a living before that. She must do this while protecting her offspring from those who would use Cara as a pawn to obtain something from her, but she does not know what that is and matters are getting worse.

NO SAFE PLACE is a an entreating thriller in which the heroine has no idea who to trust and who is willing to use her daughter and others close to them as bait for what or why she does not know. What the adversaries and Stephen never grasped is that Elizabeth is a lioness when it comes to protecting her cub even though Cara is in her twenties. This tale is complex and difficult at times to follow yet worth the concentration needed as fans will wonder who is friend and who is foe until the final shocking twist.

Harriet Klausner