Dancing With The Devil
 Patricia Crossley
 (Reviewer - Kate Holmes)
 2002 Atlantic Bridge Publishing
  ISBN: 1931761531 - NO LONGER AVAIABLE


Jazz Hargrove has a brilliant career as a globe-trotting news reporter. She believes the secrets in her past are well hidden, until she is called home for her father's funeral...

Associate Reviewer Kate Holmes writes:

Jazz, properly named Jasmine by a mother who left home one day, is a young woman with an incredible amount of emotional baggage, only some of which is due to her mother's abandonment. Pete Browning, her friend & photographer, is also her companion in Africa as this story opens. The two must initially fight their way through a wind storm to reach the small air strip where Jazz is to meet a plane that will take her to her home town of Victoria, British Columbia, the one place on earth that she dreads.

After narrowly escaping the storm that leaves her stranded with Pete in a broken down Land Rover, we soon find Jazz back in Victoria where she has many details to attend to as her father's sole heir. Once back in the large & rather empty home of her youth, Jazz discovers some flowers left for her with an ominous message, bringing back memories she has thought buried, memories that make her skin crawl. Thankfully, Pete shows up, having felt that she might need a bit of support. Although Jazz is not immediately enthusiastic with Pete's presence, she soon learns to appreciate his company & clear head in the face of a danger she thought long behind her.

As Jazz goes about the task of setting her father's affairs in order, even the calm & self-assured Pete can't bring Jazz comfort as she realizes that a man from her past may be lurking in the shadows, a man with no good in mind. As she & Pete become closer, her danger becomes his & that of his family, particularly his niece, a beautiful trusting child who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Patricia Crossley is a fine storyteller, keeping her readers absorbed with her attention to detail, & bringing life to each page. Dancing With The Devil provides its readers with mystery, adventure & well written & tasteful romantic scenes. Comic relief is in the US Passport that adorns the cover where a Canadian Passport should be.

More from Patricia Crossley: Beloved Stranger

www.patriciacrossley.com
(03/09/03)

Kate Holmes
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A RebeccasReads.Com Associate Reviewer

Reviewer's Bio
She is a Canadian wife, mother, grandmother, & avid reader. She has hungered for knowledge her whole life which has led her to haunt her local library & used book stores, looking for “old friends.” She has several bookshelves over which presides a print of Amergin, an ancient wizard from Celtic myth.

A welcome addition to her study, Della, her computer (named for its maker), has become a large part of her world. For some time Kate Holmes reviewed for another ezine, & as a means of giving herself a more varied reading experience, has joined RebeccasReads as a Associate Reviewer.