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"In this thrilling follow-up to SLEEP WITH THE LIGHTS ON, Shayne amps up both the creep factor and the suspense. She continues to build on the sexual tension between the main characters, fostering a humming anticipation that builds as the story unfolds. She pairs this with an intriguing plot that will have readers guessing till the last page." -RT Book Reviews on WAKE TO DARKNESS
"Readers will love this novel, which twists Shayne's usual combination of sharp wit and awesome characters with a killer who could have leapt right off of a television screen." -RT Book Reviews on SLEEP WITH THE LIGHTS ON
"Maggie Shayne writes wonderful stories combining romance with page-turning thrills."
-New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards
"A tasty, tension-packed read."
-Publishers Weekly on Thicker Than Water
"Shayne's haunting tale is intricately woven.... A moving mix of high suspense and romance, this haunting Halloween thriller will propel readers to bolt their doors at night!"
-Publisher's Weekly on The Gingerbread Man
"Readers will love this novel, which twists Shayne's usual combination of sharp wit and awesome characters with a killer who could have leapt right off of a television screen." -RT Book Reviews on SLEEP WITH THE LIGHTS ON
"Maggie Shayne writes wonderful stories combining romance with page-turning thrills."
-New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards
"A tasty, tension-packed read."
-Publishers Weekly on Thicker Than Water
"Shayne's haunting tale is intricately woven.... A moving mix of high suspense and romance, this haunting Halloween thriller will propel readers to bolt their doors at night!"
-Publisher's Weekly on The Gingerbread Man
About the Author
RITA Award winning, New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shayne has published over 50 novels, including mini-series Wings in the Night (vampires), Secrets of Shadow Falls (suspense) and The Portal (witchcraft). A Wiccan High Priestess, tarot reader, advice columnist and former soap opera writer, Maggie lives in Cortland County, NY, with soulmate Lance and their furry family.
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Sixteen-time RITA Award nominee, New York Times Bestselling author Maggie Shayne has published 53 novels, all for major NY Publishers, in her 20 year career. So far. This past year saw the release of her trilogy, "The Portal Series" and its books include MARK OF THE WITCH, DAUGHTER OF THE SPELLCASTER, and BLOOD OF THE SORCERESS all from MIRA Books.
Coming this Fall, the hottest novels yet, a set of thrillers like nothing you've seen before. SLEEP WITH THE LIGHTS ON releases September 24th, and WAKE TO DARKNESS at Thanksgiving. Pre-order links are already up. Excerpts coming soon.
Maggie has published westerns, category romances, romantic suspense, paranormal romances, urban fantasy, women's fiction, and just about everything in between. She's a winner of the RITA Award, the romance fiction industry's most prestigious prize, and has won countless others including several RT BOOK RREVIEWS "Reviewer's Choice" Awards, two RT Career Achievement Awards, the Daphne du Maurier Award, The Golden Leaf Award and numerous others.
Maggie's "Twilight" series of vampire novels, officially known as Wings in the Night, began in 1993 with TWILIGHT PHANTASIES from Silhouette Shadows. The series concluded with TWILIGHT FULFILLED in October 2011. (Printable list and reading order at the author's website and on her Facebook page.)
Besides being an author, Maggie is a Wiccan High Priestess, Reiki healer, Tarot Card Reader, unofficial Life Coach, Law of Attraction expert, advice columnist, and a licensed minister. Her long running newspaper advice column has been compiled into book form; SHAYNE ON YOU, the author's first non-fiction book. Her second, MAGICK AND THE LAW OF ATTRACTION, A USER'S GUIDE is a deeply spiritual primer that is changing lives.
Recently, Maggie has begun re-releasing her out of print novels in ebook format. See the full list of her indie pubbed, bargain priced novels at www.maggieshayne.com/ms-classics
Maggie lives with her fiancé Lance in a tiny town called Taylor (phone exchange: Truxton, mailing address: Cincinnatus, tax map: Cuyler. Smalltown folks understand!) in New York State's little known but sprawling and gorgeous dairy farm & wine country near the Fingerlakes region. Together they have a pair of Old English Mastiffs (Dozer & Daisy,) a chubby little bulldog (Niblet), an arrogant cat (Glorificus,) a come-lately cat who thinks he's a dog (Butters) two saltwater reef aquariums (aquaria?) and a life of utter contentment and joy.
Maggie has a fabulous team behind her. Her indy books, her contests and promotions, her newsletter, her indy cover art and tons more are handled by Jessica Lewis at The Author's Life Saver (.com)
Her proofreading line editing and copy editing for her indy works are handled by Jena O'Connor at Practical Proofing (.com).
She's represented by literary agent Eileen Fallon and her editor for most of the past 20 years at Harlequin is Leslie Wainger (who also has a book doctor business that's thriving on the side.) LeslieWainger-Bookdoctor (.com)
Her street team is headed up by the unsinkable Chelle Olson of Literal Addiction (.com) and co-piloted by Charity Costa.
Chelle also designs a lot of Shayne Swag at Chelle-Belle Designs.
Sixteen-time RITA Award nominee, New York Times Bestselling author Maggie Shayne has published 53 novels, all for major NY Publishers, in her 20 year career. So far. This past year saw the release of her trilogy, "The Portal Series" and its books include MARK OF THE WITCH, DAUGHTER OF THE SPELLCASTER, and BLOOD OF THE SORCERESS all from MIRA Books.
Coming this Fall, the hottest novels yet, a set of thrillers like nothing you've seen before. SLEEP WITH THE LIGHTS ON releases September 24th, and WAKE TO DARKNESS at Thanksgiving. Pre-order links are already up. Excerpts coming soon.
Maggie has published westerns, category romances, romantic suspense, paranormal romances, urban fantasy, women's fiction, and just about everything in between. She's a winner of the RITA Award, the romance fiction industry's most prestigious prize, and has won countless others including several RT BOOK RREVIEWS "Reviewer's Choice" Awards, two RT Career Achievement Awards, the Daphne du Maurier Award, The Golden Leaf Award and numerous others.
Maggie's "Twilight" series of vampire novels, officially known as Wings in the Night, began in 1993 with TWILIGHT PHANTASIES from Silhouette Shadows. The series concluded with TWILIGHT FULFILLED in October 2011. (Printable list and reading order at the author's website and on her Facebook page.)
Besides being an author, Maggie is a Wiccan High Priestess, Reiki healer, Tarot Card Reader, unofficial Life Coach, Law of Attraction expert, advice columnist, and a licensed minister. Her long running newspaper advice column has been compiled into book form; SHAYNE ON YOU, the author's first non-fiction book. Her second, MAGICK AND THE LAW OF ATTRACTION, A USER'S GUIDE is a deeply spiritual primer that is changing lives.
Recently, Maggie has begun re-releasing her out of print novels in ebook format. See the full list of her indie pubbed, bargain priced novels at www.maggieshayne.com/ms-classics
Maggie lives with her fiancé Lance in a tiny town called Taylor (phone exchange: Truxton, mailing address: Cincinnatus, tax map: Cuyler. Smalltown folks understand!) in New York State's little known but sprawling and gorgeous dairy farm & wine country near the Fingerlakes region. Together they have a pair of Old English Mastiffs (Dozer & Daisy,) a chubby little bulldog (Niblet), an arrogant cat (Glorificus,) a come-lately cat who thinks he's a dog (Butters) two saltwater reef aquariums (aquaria?) and a life of utter contentment and joy.
Maggie has a fabulous team behind her. Her indy books, her contests and promotions, her newsletter, her indy cover art and tons more are handled by Jessica Lewis at The Author's Life Saver (.com)
Her proofreading line editing and copy editing for her indy works are handled by Jena O'Connor at Practical Proofing (.com).
She's represented by literary agent Eileen Fallon and her editor for most of the past 20 years at Harlequin is Leslie Wainger (who also has a book doctor business that's thriving on the side.) LeslieWainger-Bookdoctor (.com)
Her street team is headed up by the unsinkable Chelle Olson of Literal Addiction (.com) and co-piloted by Charity Costa.
Chelle also designs a lot of Shayne Swag at Chelle-Belle Designs.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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on September 30, 2014
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Psychic murder mysteries are one of my favorite types of reads. This is the third book(plus a novella)in this series, and I have read, and enjoyed them all. I received this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest and fair review.
Rachel de Luca is an author of best selling, self help books, and up until a few months ago, was blind. After a corneal transplant, she can now see. Mason Brown is a homicide detective, and it’s his brother’s cornea’s that Rachel was given. Since the beginning, these two have shared an emotional connection, especially when Rachel starts dreaming about the serial killer that Mason is hunting. By this time in these books, the two have solved more then several murders, and even saved Rachel’s assistant, when she was kidnapped. The two work extremely well together in solving crimes, and are really starting to work well together in their personal lives, as well.
This time around, Mason is called to look into a judges daughter’s disappearance. Although initially hesitant, Rachel joins in the investigation.The judges daughter is newly blind, and that resonates with Rachel. It’s not long before they realize there are nine missing young girls. And then, the police start finding bodies.
I always enjoy the characters of Rachel and Mason. To me, it’s like connecting with old friends now that we’re three books in. The two are still dancing around each other about their true feelings for each other. They’ve got the friends with benefits thing, down pat. Rachel is full of snark, and usually thinks what she writes is total bull, but it’s made her rich, so she keeps on writing it. Mason pretty much loves everything about her. He’s the total package, strong, smart and honorable.Read more ›
Rachel de Luca is an author of best selling, self help books, and up until a few months ago, was blind. After a corneal transplant, she can now see. Mason Brown is a homicide detective, and it’s his brother’s cornea’s that Rachel was given. Since the beginning, these two have shared an emotional connection, especially when Rachel starts dreaming about the serial killer that Mason is hunting. By this time in these books, the two have solved more then several murders, and even saved Rachel’s assistant, when she was kidnapped. The two work extremely well together in solving crimes, and are really starting to work well together in their personal lives, as well.
This time around, Mason is called to look into a judges daughter’s disappearance. Although initially hesitant, Rachel joins in the investigation.The judges daughter is newly blind, and that resonates with Rachel. It’s not long before they realize there are nine missing young girls. And then, the police start finding bodies.
I always enjoy the characters of Rachel and Mason. To me, it’s like connecting with old friends now that we’re three books in. The two are still dancing around each other about their true feelings for each other. They’ve got the friends with benefits thing, down pat. Rachel is full of snark, and usually thinks what she writes is total bull, but it’s made her rich, so she keeps on writing it. Mason pretty much loves everything about her. He’s the total package, strong, smart and honorable.Read more ›
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on October 3, 2014
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Innocent Prey is the third book in the Brown & De Luca series by Maggie Shayne.
I’m going to do something different today. I’m going to give you five reasons why you should read Innocent Prey.
1. Rachel de Luca. Rachel is one of my all time favorite heroines. She went blind when she was 12-years-old, twenty years later she recovered her sight after having a cornea transplant. Apart from seeing her sight brought many changes to her life. What changes? You need to read this series.
I love seeing the world through her eyes because it makes you realize all the things you take for granted. But that’s not the only reason I love her. I love her because she’s smart, sassy, witty and all around very real. She is one of those persons you would love to have as a friend.
2. Detective Mason Brown. Mason is the perfect hero, he’s not only handsome as hell, he is also intelligent, caring and very loyal. He is willing to go the extra mile and more to protect those he loves, he did it in previous book and he does it again in this one. He’s what I called a swoon worthy hero.
3. Mason and Rachel’s Relationship. Mason and Rachel have come a long way, they are together, but no officially. They are both afraid of scaring the other by showing too much interest, but what they can’t see is that they are both feeling the same way. It was highly entertaining to see them play around their feelings, pretending not to want what they both wanted… and the end! OMG! The end!!
4. The Mystery. The mystery is well plotted, with enough twists and turns to keep you on the edge of your seat. I’m usually really good uncovering the whodunit, but I’m happy to say Mrs. Shayne really surprised me with this one. Well-done Mrs. Shayne, well done!
5. The Writing.Read more ›
I’m going to do something different today. I’m going to give you five reasons why you should read Innocent Prey.
1. Rachel de Luca. Rachel is one of my all time favorite heroines. She went blind when she was 12-years-old, twenty years later she recovered her sight after having a cornea transplant. Apart from seeing her sight brought many changes to her life. What changes? You need to read this series.
I love seeing the world through her eyes because it makes you realize all the things you take for granted. But that’s not the only reason I love her. I love her because she’s smart, sassy, witty and all around very real. She is one of those persons you would love to have as a friend.
2. Detective Mason Brown. Mason is the perfect hero, he’s not only handsome as hell, he is also intelligent, caring and very loyal. He is willing to go the extra mile and more to protect those he loves, he did it in previous book and he does it again in this one. He’s what I called a swoon worthy hero.
3. Mason and Rachel’s Relationship. Mason and Rachel have come a long way, they are together, but no officially. They are both afraid of scaring the other by showing too much interest, but what they can’t see is that they are both feeling the same way. It was highly entertaining to see them play around their feelings, pretending not to want what they both wanted… and the end! OMG! The end!!
4. The Mystery. The mystery is well plotted, with enough twists and turns to keep you on the edge of your seat. I’m usually really good uncovering the whodunit, but I’m happy to say Mrs. Shayne really surprised me with this one. Well-done Mrs. Shayne, well done!
5. The Writing.Read more ›
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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on October 1, 2014
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The trouble with reading any of the books in the Brown and de Luca series is that when you reach the end, you want more! I've been anxiously awaiting the release of this latest addition to the series since I finished the last one, and this was just as good as the others have been. The characters are engaging and the story moves at a perfect pace. There are the elements of suspense, romance, comedy, and also some very thought-provoking lessons woven throughout the story. You're left wishing you could meet these characters in person, because they would be such wonderful people to hang out with and have adventures with. I can't wait for the next book!!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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INNOCENT PREY is as full of humor and suspense as each of the previous novels in this series. From the first page to the very last there is never a dull moment in this book and my only complaint is that I didn't want it to end! The characters are real and wonderfully written. Even the dog, Myrtle is a favorite character of mine. If you are trying to decide whether to read this book or not...READ IT! You won't be sorry! If you have yet to read the previous novels in the series, I highly recommend those too. Humor, romance and thrilling suspense, these books have it all!
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I love Maggie Shayne's books. Especially the Brown/de Luca books. I really like de Luca's attitude about her life and what goes on in her life and toward Brown. they are perfect together in personal life and police work. if you haven't read these books, start with the first one. I have preordered the next one.
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