Delynn Royer

Not really my personal style, but it has a lot to recommend it to people who like historical fiction set in the 1920's. There is a murder of a bootlegger, a suspect list that includes such characters of the era as a Ziegfield girl, gangsters, cops, and the sexy widow. The main characters are an heiress working as a reporter at a tabloid newspaper, and a lone wolf cop from Hell's Kitchen. As you may have expected, a romance begins to develop between them fairly early.

The book is very well-written and stays true to the era. The characters are developed well, and the dialogue is engaging. I can easily see this becoming an ongoing series.

**I received this book to review through Beck Valley Books Book Tours. All the opinions above are 100% my own.**… (more)

The author wrote about the Latino characters totally offensively - "half-breed" is so not an acceptable term - but it was thoughtlessly done, not malicious. I chose to roll my eyes at the author and keep reading, but other people might want to set the book on fine.

Once I got past that stuff in the early chapters, I really enjoyed the story. A marriage of convenience where a heroine promises a retired bounty hunter $20,000 to marry her then divorce her after six months so she can inherit her family's ranch? Sign me up! To sweeten the deal, the heroine's a total bitch who has to work on her attitude to win the hero. It's like it was written just for me.

Not bad for a $2.99 impulse buy on Amazon.… (more)