"Steamy thiller"
When surgeon Dr. Rennie Newton is picked for jury duty she
does not try to get out of it because she believes it is
her civic duty to serve. She ends up being the jury
foreman hearing the case of Ricky Roy Lozada, a high priced
free-lance hit man on trial for murder. Even though Rennie
believes Lozada is guilty, there is not enough evidence, in
her opinion, to convict him and she convinces the other
jury members to acquit. During the trial Lozada looks at Rennie constantly, so much
so that the Fort Worth police thinks the two of them have
some kind of relationship. They set up a surveillance on
her house and one of the team members is Wick Threadgill,
the brother of the police officer Lozada killed. During
the course of the observation, Wick gets to know Rennie
(think Stakeout) and concludes she is not guilty of
collaboration with the killer. Both are attracted to the
other, but they have personal demons to overcome and Lozada
to put away before they can try for a happily ever after
ending. One of Sandra Brown's trademarks is that she can draw out
the suspense in her romantic thrillers until the reader is
eagerly turning the pages to find out what happens next.
Both protagonists are broken personally but the way they
heal each other is a beautiful thing to behold. THE CRUSH
is a chilling work about obsession taken to the ultimate
limit. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted September 5, 2002
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