Bait

Maddie Fitzgerald barely escapes being killed in her hotel room on a business trip to New Orleans. She hopes it was a random act and can get back to her life. Sam McCabe, FBI, thinks otherwise. To him she is the latest in a string of professional hits throughout the South being carried out by a serial killer leaving clues. So far they have been one step behind 9 murders. He thinks the killer will be back, thinking she might be able to identify him. He wants her under guard. Maddie has secrets that she can't afford Sam and his crew to uncover. She is truly caught between a rock and a hard place. This was action packed and suspenseful with a cast of likable secondary characters, except for the bad guys. And some real humorous scenes show more involving a dog named Zelda. Robards is a favorite and this is a good one. show less

In Bait, a failed attempt is made on Maddie Fitzgerald, a young woman who runs an advertisement agency. This same killer is being hunted by the FBI agent Sam McCabe. Maddie is resistant to any FBI protection because of her checkered past. She changed her name and took on a new life after fleeing from the mob. She returns to St. Louis where the killer continues to come after her and McCabe and company protect. But really the novel is about the developing romance between Maddie and McCabe.

This novel fails in so many different ways. The first thing is that the novel is one big cliché. First there is the woman with the past who is being protected by the FBI and surprise, surprise she develops a relationship with the law enforcement officer show more trying to protect. I think I've read that story about a dozen times. There are so many elements of the plot and characters that feel worn and tired. Maddie is resistant to McCabe and is hostile toward him yet naturally they wind up together. To make matters worse, the writers uses dozens of cliché phrases throughout her novel. The believability is non-existent. I can only suspend my disbelief so far and that does not include a professional hitman who taunts the FBI agents that are after him. I should have just stopped reading at that point. A professional would never risk getting caught like that. The explanation that is provided at the end is lame. Furthermore, the plot is really inconsequential and is treated that way. It's really just a backdrop to the romance that develops. This is a weak novel, and I would recommend skipping it.

Carl Alves - author of Blood Street show less

Interesting read. Maddie is the first to thwart the serial killer who's been making FBI agent McCabe's life a misery. While McCabe watches her closely in hopes of catching the killer when he tries to finish the job, the heat between them turns up as well.

I enjoyed the characters and loved the interplay with Zelda, Maddie's client's dog.

I was expecting rather more from this story, entertaining, though it was. The romance got in the way of the story, though their was a dog thrown in for light relief and inept mobsters.

This was my second attempt at reading this particular book. Relatively good read, I'd class it more as chick lit crime than full on scary crime like John Connolly. Enjoyable read but wouldn't read again.

Just the kind of romance I love to read, a little bit serious, some moments of humor, and a bit of a twist to the story.

This is a great book. I didn't want it to end because I was so involved in the story.

When beautiful advertising executive Maddie Fitzgerald is attacked in a New Orleans hotel, she thinks that she's a victim of random, senseless violence. FBI agent Sam McCabe thinks otherwise - that she's a target of a serial killer who's eluded the FBI for weeks. He also knows that there's only one way to catch him: use Maddie as the enticing bait. But as McCabe's intimate protection ignites irresistible passion, Maddie finds herself in greater danger than she believed possible - and closer to the killer than she ever imagined....