From Kirkus Reviews
Continuing his endangered heroine endeavors (Night of Reunion, 1990), Allegretto puts landscape-planner Lauren Caylor's second marriage in jeopardy when, suddenly, cars start tailing her, new neighbors move in and spy on her, and she catches her husband telling several whoppersand acting awfully jittery. How well does she really know this man she married? Is her daughter Emily safe with him? Is she? Before his secret past is revealed, the family will be shadowed at Sea World; their phone will be tapped; the FBI will come calling; and a former mobster and his psycho sidekick will waylay them in the kitchenwhere one more secret will out, blood will spill, and the marriage will survive. A suspense story without the prime ingredientsuspense. Allegretto, who has had somewhat more success with his Jake Lomax series, needs to get out of the kitchen and back to the back alleys. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Review
“Allegretto builds this tidy, tantalizing thriller to a satisfying conclusion with his usual aplomb.” —Publishers Weekly
“[Allegretto] writes impressively in the tight-lipped school of prose that, handled well, can raise emotional bruises.” —The New York Times
About the Author
Michael Allegretto (b. 1944) is an American author of thrillers and mystery fiction best known for creating Colorado private detective Jacob Lomax. Raised in Colorado, Allegretto spent his youth listening to the stories of his father, a Denver police officer whose experiences he later used as the basis for his first books. He made his debut in 1987 with Death on the Rocks, a story of murder, blackmail, and pornography that introduced Allegretto’s only series character: Jacob Lomax, an ex-cop who becomes a private detective after the brutal murder of his wife.
Lomax would star in four more novels, including Blood Stone (1988), The Dead of Winter (1989), and Grave Doubt (1995). In the early 1990s, Allegretto began writing standalone novels, including the Christmas suspense story Night of Reunion (1990) and the fast-paced family thriller The Watchmen (1991).
