Suzanne Enoch Don't Look Down

Don't Look Down

Suzanne Enoch

Avon, Jan 2006, $6.99, 384 pp.

ISBN 0060593644

Twenty-four years old former cat burglar Samantha Jellicoe decides to go legit by setting up a security firm. Meanwhile her lover thirty-tree years old Richard Addison tries to persuade his beloved that they belong together permanently, but she has doubts that she would lose her identity and become one of Rick's chicks at best or worst Mrs. British Billionaire though he tells her that her penchant for breaking into his homes keep that from becoming a reality.

In Palm Beach wealthy Charles Kuntz hires Sam to protect him. However, before she can begin the job, someone kills her "mark" and jewels are missing. The cops target Sam as the prime suspect, but her troubles are not just with the law. Rick's ex Patricia arrives to inform him that she is divorcing her latest spouse and is available to renew what they once had.

The sequel to the delightful romantic suspense thriller FLIRTING WITH DANGER is am amusing tale that returns the two protagonists for another enjoyable gender war. Rick is terrific and Sam's former felonious partner Stony is as incorrigible as ever, but once again the tale belongs to the heroine who fears she has become the star of Die Hard instead of To Catch a Thief. Though the fun story line is overfilled with the rich and amoral, readers will look up for more amusing contemporary suspense from Suzanne Enoch.

Harriet Klausner