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One of my all time favorite vampire novels is Fear Me by Stephen Laws (Leisure, 2005). It is scary and suspenseful. Everything you look for in a horror story.

Prologue

Three women, Yvonne, Bernice, and Jacqueline meet in an underground parking garage with plans to kill a certain man who has literally made their lives a living hell. Yvonne seems the most fragile and frightened of them, but when the man they know as Gideon makes his hideous appearance they each, in turn, fire the gun that finally leaves him unmoving and dead. Or is he?

Part I

Paul visits his mother in an asylum. The doctors have said she suffers from Alzheimer, but she had been in exactly the same state for 12 years. She is always verbally abusive to her son on his visits. Even so Paul felt a duty to be with her as frequently as possible. Later, after Paul has left, his mother wakes up hearing the mesmerizing voices of the trees singing to her. This often happens, and she is the only one who can hear. Sometimes their song is a comfort other times not. The singing today seems a mixture. Still she unhesitatingly follows their command to leave her bed and walk outside the hospital. When she arrives at a forested area a stranger appears with a shotgun, aims it at her and fires.

Soon after, while at the house, Paul and his father are confronted by a young man who storms into their house and attempts to murder both of them. With great difficulty Paul overtakes the man. The father, badly injured, tells Paul he must run and hide because it is Paul they seek. Before he can explain what this means, he falls unconscious. Now Paul is left to his own devices which turn out to be more horrifying than he ever imagines.

My Opinion

Laws understands how to build suspense and keep the spook factor high. This is not a book to read on a dark and stormy night although, even as I say this, I must admit that yesterday evening I was so engrossed in the story that I kept reading even with a terrifically loud thunder storm overhead. Fortunately the lights stayed on.

The setting is 2060, New York. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called to a murder scene involving wealthy businessman Thomas Anders. Apparently, Anders was into kinky sex and liked to be tied up. Well, whoever he was with last, tied him up so tight, that they strangled him too! Looking around the crime scene, Eve notices all of the little things that add up to the fact that Thomas Anders knew his murderer.The first logical suspect is always the spouse. But Ava Anders has an air tight alibi. She was off on a mini retreat with her girlfriends on a tropical island. So how could she possibly be involved? But certain actions by Ava are suspicious. For instance…when she was informed of the news about her husband’s death, she ordered breakfast to her room and she also did not wake her girlfriends with her horrible news. She only left them a note when she left to go back home. But these actions don’t necessarily mean that she is guilty. No one can judge exactly how a person will react to horrible news.

As with Roberts style, she gives a fair amount of coverage to Peabody, her assistant. Peabody is married to Mc Nab and they are always doing something zany to keep their marriage filled with spark. Roberts also introduces a few new detectives who you can expect to read more of in her future novels.

What can you say about the chemistry between Dallas and her husband Rourke? HOT HOT HOT !!! Roberts leaves no stone unturned to the readers imagination.The steamy sex scenes between Eve and Rourke are explicit and makes you wonder what type of book you are really reading!

This is a must read book! Roberts delves into the world of kinky sex and pulls no punches in including sex toys in the story. A different spin to the Eve Dallas novels and exciting to read!