Have you ever felt like you were a puppet on a string? I
did when I picked up WHEN ALL THE GIRLS HAVE GONE and
author Jayne Ann Krentz pulled me along this intricate
read. She is a true master in the suspense/mystery/romance
art form so of course I loved every minute of it.
We follow Charlotte Sawyer whose stepsister is missing. She get
gets really worried when she can't get in touch with her
stepsister to tell her about a friend's recent troubling
death. Charlotte meets Max Cutler, who has been hired by
the deceased friend's young cousin. Neither the cousin nor
Charlotte nor Max believe the police conviction that the
death was due to a drug overdose.
Max immediately finds Charlotte interesting so to not break
the usual "don't mess with a client" rule that is in most
P.I.'s ground rules they become partners. Neither of them
realize that the road they are about to take will lead them
through a maze filled with unexpected surprises. Including,
of course, how quickly and easily they understand and trust
each other. She's been determined to be too naïve and too
tender for her own good and he's a divorced burn-out just
starting a new job. Yes ... exactly ... perfect for each
other. If they survive all the shocks that come their way.
WHEN ALL THE GIRLS HAVE GONE is riveting. The master of
intrigue, Jayne Ann Krentz, leads the reader through a
multitude of interesting twists in this book. Charlotte and
Max are perfect for each other and the other characters add
a lot of color, some much needed humor and surprises ...
many, many surprises. This a well written maze of story-lines
that will draw you to an astonishing finale. We have the
disappearing stepsister, and Charlotte and Max are the main
parts but into the mix is the "investment group" and
those members are involved in much more than having a glass
of wine and throwing some money into a pot and watching it
grow. When you add in the mystery of the unsolved crime
when Jocelyn (the stepsister) was in college and all the
people and mystery that entails; Charlotte's ex-fiance (who
unwittingly added a moment for her to seek a bit of
feminine revenge); Max's obsession in finding the man who
caused the death of his mother and tried to kill him and
his foster brothers, and add into the mix the fact that Max
has half siblings that don't know about him but one of them
is about to come to harm ... and you have WHEN ALL THE
GIRLS HAVE GONE rolled into one amazing, can't put down
read.
If I had one small complaint it is that there is not a
whole lot of physical romance in WHEN ALL THE GIRLS HAVE
GONE. What is there
is in the author's usual tasteful but steamy style that we
have all come to expect. All in all a fantastic job as
always Ms. Krentz ... keep them coming.
Jayne Ann Krentz, the New York Times bestselling
author of Secret Sisters, delivers a thrilling novel
of the deceptions we hide behind, the passions we surrender
to, and the lengths we’ll go to for the truth...
When Charlotte Sawyer is unable to contact her step-sister,
Jocelyn, to tell her that one her closest friends was found
dead, she discovers that Jocelyn has vanished.
Beautiful, brilliant—and reckless—Jocelyn has gone off the
grid before, but never like this. In a desperate effort to
find her, Charlotte joins forces with Max Cutler, a
struggling PI who recently moved to Seattle after his
previous career as a criminal profiler went down in
flames—literally. Burned out, divorced and almost broke, Max
needs the job.
After surviving a near-fatal attack, Charlotte and Max turn
to Jocelyn’s closest friends, women in a Seattle-based
online investment club, for answers. But what they find is
chilling…
When her uneasy alliance with Max turns into a full-blown
affair, Charlotte has no choice but to trust him with her
life. For the shadows of Jocelyn’s past are threatening to
consume her—and anyone else who gets in their way...
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