Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: Heat Lightning
Author: Colleen Thompson
Publisher: Dorchester
ISBN: 0-505-52671-9
Release Date: October 2006
Genre/Sub-genre: Romantic Suspense
Year/Setting: Current/Texas
Overall Rating: 5.0
Sexual Content Rating: Sexual
Language (Profanity) Rating: Moderate
Violent Content Rating: Most of it Minimal with a couple of Intense scenes
Colleen's Website: www.colleen-thompson.com
Luz Maria Montoya is a woman with a mission. She is a woman of strong convictions and beliefs which is illustrated by her work as the spokesperson for the Voice of Poverty movement. She befriends those of society who others have neglected or forgotten. Unfortunately, that has also created a situation where she is a target for quite a few people who do not like her work much less her.
One man finds himself in an interesting position related to Luz Maria and that is Grant Holcomb. Several years prior, she targeted his partner on the Houston Police Force as someone who assaulted prostitutes. When Luz Maria took this information public, John Zeman killed himself and Grant blamed two people for his death – Luz Maria for lying about his partner and himself for not seeing his partner’s pain. The position he finds himself in is that someone tried to kill the woman he hates and he is the responding officer.
As he responds to the crime though and has to work with Luz Maria, he starts having some doubts as to his beliefs regarding this woman and what he knew about his ex-partner. When ordered off the case for conflict of interest, Grant can’t leave well enough alone and gets in a whole lot deeper. The threat to Luz Maria was not a one time thing and her life is in serious danger. When she turns to him for help, he has to take a serious look at his career, his beliefs and the feelings this woman is creating within him.
Heat Lightning could easily be turned into a script for a movie. The plot line was really well done. Normally, when reading a suspenseful novel, a reader finds themselves thinking they know "who-don-it" long before the end of the story and most of the time they aren’t too far off. With Colleen Thompson’s, however, I have to say my mind changed several times throughout the book as to who was behind the threat and then the final ending was nothing I would have imagined. Very well laid out and thought through.
The characters were rich and real and raw. The feelings were tangible and powerful. The confusion faced by both of the main characters as they dealt with their pasts was right out front and was something the reader could wrap themselves up in and become part of the story. Normally, I am a really fast reader but I have to admit I slowed down a bit on this one so I didn’t miss a beat.
Lori
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