Saving Face
By Brenda Barrett

Saving Face is the first in a series taking place on a college campus community. We met detectives Natasha and Harry of the local police department as well as many of the faculty and staff of the university. Saving Face is about the murder of the college president and the battle for who will take his place. Barrett brings in mystery, family drama, romance, and intrigue as she tells the story.
The plot of the book is good, the pace a bit slow with a tendancy to drag in places. It is a good mystery but we seem to come up with more suspects and less answers. After awhile this loses the reader's attention. Barrett writing is clar and easy to follow. Her characters are developed fairly well, about what one would expect for the introduction book of a series. Barrett does a splendid job in handling romance in her writing, avoiding the fairytale or the lusty types we often see. Instead we are given a few different types some healthy, some not. Tal and Natasha's relationship was believeable and romantic.
I enjoyed reading and hope to read more of Barrett's work. ( )