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Audiobook (abridged)5 hours
Slightly Shady
Written by Amanda Quick
Narrated by Elizabeth Sastre
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Amanda Quick's bestselling trademark is a combination of suspense and passion in historical tales alight with sparkling wit and brimming with dangerous intrigue. Now she serves up the most tantalizing novel of her career as an enterprising woman allies herself with a mysterious spy, only to be caught in a seething brew of treachery - and temptation....
From the moment he burst into her antiquities shop in Rome, Lavinia Lake knew the stranger was nothing but trouble. He said he was in pursuit of a killer. He swore he was only trying to save her. Yet no matter what he claimed, Lavinia was convinced that Mr. Tobias March was bent instead on destroying her. And when the self-described spy hustled her and her niece out of the shop and back to England, Lavinia could only hope that one day she would would find a way to repay Mr. March in full.
But Lavinia never imagined the shocking circumstances under which they would meet again ... or that soon he would become more deadly - and more compelling - with each passing day.
In the business of making private inquiries, Tobias March had been hired to trade down a powerful villain who even now was intent on assuming control of a vast criminal organization. Yet in his search he had found nothing but one dead end - and one dead body - after another.
And then, just as his investigation was heating up once more, he found his mission and his life complicated by the most ungovernable, unpredictable, exasperating woman he had ever met.
Faced with a tangled web of deceit and danger, Tobias had no choice but to form a partnership with Lavinia, a lady whose past could only be described as slightly shady. Yet when he persuaded her to become his associate, neither Tobias nor Lavinia realized that their heated disputes would spark a sizzling desire - or that the deeper they kept digging for the truth, the deeper they were digging their own graves....
From the Hardcover edition.
From the moment he burst into her antiquities shop in Rome, Lavinia Lake knew the stranger was nothing but trouble. He said he was in pursuit of a killer. He swore he was only trying to save her. Yet no matter what he claimed, Lavinia was convinced that Mr. Tobias March was bent instead on destroying her. And when the self-described spy hustled her and her niece out of the shop and back to England, Lavinia could only hope that one day she would would find a way to repay Mr. March in full.
But Lavinia never imagined the shocking circumstances under which they would meet again ... or that soon he would become more deadly - and more compelling - with each passing day.
In the business of making private inquiries, Tobias March had been hired to trade down a powerful villain who even now was intent on assuming control of a vast criminal organization. Yet in his search he had found nothing but one dead end - and one dead body - after another.
And then, just as his investigation was heating up once more, he found his mission and his life complicated by the most ungovernable, unpredictable, exasperating woman he had ever met.
Faced with a tangled web of deceit and danger, Tobias had no choice but to form a partnership with Lavinia, a lady whose past could only be described as slightly shady. Yet when he persuaded her to become his associate, neither Tobias nor Lavinia realized that their heated disputes would spark a sizzling desire - or that the deeper they kept digging for the truth, the deeper they were digging their own graves....
From the Hardcover edition.
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Amanda Quick
Amanda Quick is the pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz, the author, under various pen names, of more than fifty New York Times bestsellers; there are more than 35 million copies of her books in print. She lives in Seattle.
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Reviews for Slightly Shady
Rating: 3.534883702325582 out of 5 stars
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172 ratings9 reviews
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Normally, I really enjoy Quick's books, but this one just felt phoned in - the relationships and emotions felt contrived. I had been reading everything she published for awhile and about when this came out, I stopped. I got back into Quick through the Arcane Society novels which I have been really enjoying - this actually felt like a bit of a test run for those. I can't decide if I should continue with the Lake/March novels or not - I may try one more. This makes two disappointing romances in a row from authors I've previously enjoyed (Nora Roberts was the other). I hope whatever I read next is better!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Sharp tongued and shrewish, widow Lavina Lake is not the most appealing of heroines. Her relationship with private investigator Tobias March is prickly and fraught with raised voices from the very beginning when he lays waste to her shop in Rome. Reacquainted in London, the pair are thrown together in the course of a desperate search for a serial killer with the odd habit of modeling wax into threats.Not my favorite of Quick's characters - Lavina comes off as a rude, pushy woman, and Tobias a bit too long-suffering.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not sure if I want to read others in the series. The heroine is a bit obnoxious.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I am listening to this in the audio format. (my traveling book) So far Lavinia and Tobias are teaming up to catch a blackmailer, and bring an end to his criminal gang. The two have discovered that they both are targets.Lavinia and Tobias are investigating an erotic wax museum. The female figures appear to resemble prostitutes that have gone missing. The male figure interacting in different sexual acts with the various female figures appears to be made from the same model. Who is he? The story progresses as Lavinia and Tobias discover a mutual passion for each other. After a suspect turns up dead, his wife (Constantine) is revealed as the murderer. She killed the women who her husband Neville had previously entertained as his mistresses. Now believing that he might leave her to be with the widow of the 'Blue Gang,' assuming power as head criminal mastermind, she murders him. She is on the verge of killing Lavinia who has discovered her crimes when Tobias shows up and she is subdued. In the end Constantine is committed to an asylum for the insane. Lavinia and Tobias will continue to work as investigators, after discovering they enjoy their partnership. It is mentioned in the end that although the job is frustrating, there is a remedy for the frustraton. Although temporary the remedy can be applied as often as needed. (love is the drug) *** several erotic scenes throughout involving communion of the two ... well-written ... sensual & satifying.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Starting with the destruction of Lavinia Lake's antiquities shop by a Mr Tobias March who is in pursuit of a killer and determined to save Lavinia from possibly herself. The two end up teaming up in London and find themselves sharing adventures and terribly attracted to each other.It's a fun read, nothing to get terribly excited about and if you scratch the surface there are a lot of historical inaccuracies lurking but for it's type it isn't bad.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5too juvenile. not my kind of story.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I liked the four main characters well enough but the mystery fell a little flat, and even their romance sort of stalled out part way through (perhaps partly because their story will be stretched out over multiple books). I'll go ahead and try the next one, but hope they improve.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This is undeniably what one must call a "trashy novel" - a murder/mystery romance with a hearty dash of sex and a good deal of talk of current fashions.... but surprisingly modern and 'liberated' in its character portrayals - if not terribly realistic. A very quick read (hence the pseudonym?
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Two Minute Review for “Slightly Shady” by Amanda QuickTobias March is a private investigator who runs afoul of Lavinia Lake. This cantankerous little lady believes he is out to ruin her life. I would have loved to have listened to them fight. Every conversation was smart, snappy and with a ready to rumble attitude. I really like the energy of the novel. Yes, it is a romance but it also had elements of an old time mystery. No forensics, blood work or DNA evidence required.