Eve Gladstone

Addie Cordero (a psychologist and graphologist) is sent to Galbraith Island by the assistant district attorney/prosecutor's office. A killer they call Enigma may have left a clue behind at his latest crime…a note was found clutched in the murdered victim’s hand indicating what might be Enigma’s next destination…Galbraith Island. They are hoping Addie can make an ID on the island. (They want Addie to see if she can find the handwriting that matches Enigma’s, then contact them and show more they will send someone in.) So she sets off for Galbraith Island. She is looking forward to getting away after a bad breakup with her boyfriend.

After Addie arrives on the island and gets settled in she is invited to meet some (twelve) islanders at a house party. When they find out that Addie’s a graphologist they are eager to give her samples of their handwriting anonymously so she can tell them each a bit about their personalities. While doing this Addie discovers that one of the handwriting samples is an exact match to Enigma’s handwriting. But who (out of the twelve) could Enigma be? Addie begins to eliminate some suspects. She is also attracted to handsome Jason Farrell, who has been taking photographs on the island. Soon, murders begin occurring and Addie eventually teams up with Jason to find the killer.

This was an enjoyable Harlequin Intrigue. I was curious to find out who Enigma was. The story was slow sometimes but still good. I liked Addie, she was a brave and smart heroine. I found Jason unpleasant and cranky in the first half of the book but his character improved as the story progressed.

A fun read with interesting characters and an atmospheric setting---the isolated island. show less

Marti Holland, an economics advisor who works at the UN is sitting in a lobby, minding her own business, waiting for her roommate to accompany her to a reception when she overhears a conversation that changes her life. Someone is planning to assassinate a sheikh. She immediately puts two and two together and gets Sheikh Hikmat who is due to speak at the UN in two weeks on the subject of peace in the Middle East. She immediately reports what she has heard to a guard, and goes in search of the show more speaker, a tall, sandy-haired man in a tan suit.

She finds Gideon Sanders, an Israeli film director in New York working on a movie about an assassination at the UN. Though she feels a bit foolish, Marti can’t help feeling that there is more to Gideon than he is willing to reveal. When a French diplomat plunges to his death from the same hotel at which Gideon is staying, she becomes more suspicious.

Someone out there believes that Marti has some important information, and an anonymous telephone call and a break-in at her apartment are the beginning of the scare tactics used by the villain. Is putting her trust in Gideon a mistake that could prove fatal, or is he one of the good guys? show less