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Lädt ... When She Dreamsvon Amanda Quick
   Books Read in 2022 (2,869) Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  Lauren2013 | May 5, 2023 |    ) mktoronto | Jan 25, 2023 | Maggie Lodge is an assistant to Aunt Cornelia, a reclusive advice columnist who discovers that her employer is being blackmailed. She hires a detective to help her investigate at a conference about lucid dreaming, he's a sceptic but she's an actual lucid dreamer and one of the speakers would love to be able to use her for experiments. It's just barely paranormal but it was a quick fun read. (  ) wyvernfriend | Jul 21, 2022 | Advanced readers copy provided by Edelweiss ( ) jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 | Maggie Lodge is a would-be novelist who is currently working as an administrative assistant for a reclusive advice columnist known as Aunt Cordelia. Maggie is a lucid dreamer who has had trouble with a number of people including doctors. One doctor in particular - Dr. Emerson Oxlade - is a particular problem since he has become obsessed with her talent. When Maggie's boss, who has taken off on a tour of the South Pacific, receives a blackmail note demanding that she attend a conference for lucid dreaming in Burning Cove, Maggie decides to hire a private detective to help her track down the blackmailer. Sam Sage is new in the private investigator business. He's a former LA homicide detective who lost his job when he arrested the wrong man (with a powerful family) and was fired. This new case has some positives. At least, he won't be doing divorce work. It also has some negatives. His new client intends to be a full partner in the investigation and she's taking notes for her detective novel. The two find themselves in Burning Cove and finding bodies, uncovering secrets, and falling in love. This story is filled with period detail and the witty banter which is the author's trademark. I really liked the two main characters and enjoyed watching their relationship grow. The mystery was also well done and complex. Fans of historical romantic suspense can't go wrong with this story. (  ) kmartin802 | Apr 8, 2022 | keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"Return to 1930s Burning Cove, California, the glamorous seaside playground for Hollywood stars, mobsters, spies, and a host of others who find more than they bargain for in this mysterious town. Maggie Lodge, assistant to the reclusive advice columnist known only as Dear Aunt Cornelia to her readers, hires down-but-not-quite-out private eye Sam Sage to help track down the person who is blackmailing her employer. Maggie and Sam are a mismatched pair. As far as Sam is concerned, Maggie is reckless and in over her head. She is not what he had in mind for a client, but he can't afford to be choosy. Maggie, on the other hand, is convinced that Sam is badly in need of guidance and good advice. She does not hesitate to give him both. In spite of the verbal fireworks between them, they are fiercely attracted to each other, but each is convinced it would be a mistake to let passion take over. They are, after all, keeping secrets from each other. Sam is haunted by his past, which includes a marriage shattered by betrayal and violence. Maggie is troubled by intense and vivid dreams-dreams that she can sometimes control. There are those who want to run experiments on her and use her for their own purposes, while others think she should be committed to an asylum. When the pair discovers someone is impersonating Aunt Cornelia at a conference on psychic dreaming and a woman dies at the conference, the door is opened to a dangerous web of blackmail and murder. Secrets from the past are revealed, leaving Maggie and Sam in the path of a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to exact vengeance"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.72)
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3.5 Stars
When her employer, noted advice columnist Aunt Cornelia, receives a blackmail letter, Maggie Lodge employs private investigator Sam Sage to help her locate the villain at a psychic conference in Burning Cove. However, their search becomes more difficult when an imposter appears on the scene, followed by the death of an attendee. Who is behind the events, and how is it related to the legend of the Traveler, an assassin who has the ability to kill in a person's dreams?
This is the third book in the Castle/Krentx/Quick repertoire focusing on the theme of lucid dreaming. While the notion was interesting at first, it is now tediously repetitive.
Maggie and Sam's opposites attract romance has its moments. While their banter is not as engaging as that of Simon and Lyra in book #5, their chemistry is better than Nick and Vivian in book #4 and their HEA is more believable.
The blackmailing plot is the weakest mystery in the series so far and contains many elements from previous books by this author. There are too many disconnected threads, and it is difficult to follow the rather convoluted events. Moreover, the resolution or resolutions as there are actually 3 are anti-climactic.
All in all, not one of the better installments. Hopefully, the next one will be better. (