The Harbor

Not one of her best

This book just doesn't get the characters quite right. The author tells you a lot about their circumstances but she just doesn't get you to feel what she's telling you. The main characters are both carrying significant baggage from their recent careers but somehow they don't seem too affected by it. The plot is muddled and the ending just a bit too neat. It's never really clear what turned the good guy bad and why so many people were unable to resolve the little town's horrible secret. Her other books are better- just finished Cut and Run and enjoyed that much more.

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You won't want to put the book down

The Harbor Carla Neggers Reviewer Pamela Ackerson (author Home of the Braves trilogy) Zoe West's father was murdered. After being gone for a year, Zoe returns and meets FBI agent JB McGrath who is on vacation. Romance suspense, murder and intrigue. You won't want to put the book down. A superb who-done-it.

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exciting police procedural romantic suspense

In Goose Harbor, Maine, Police Chief Patrick West stops at the home of his centenarian Aunt Olivia, the author of the Periwinkle cozies, before completing his pre-work jog. Not long afterward, while on her daily run Patrick¿s police detective daughter Zoe finds her father¿s dead body. Olivia dies the next day from the shock of her beloved nephew¿s murder. Zoe pressures everyone for answers, but none surface so she accepts a job in Connecticut. A year later, Zoe, who was fired two months ago, receives a frantic call from her sister pleading with her to come home because someone broke into her sibling¿s home. Zoe returns where she meets FBI agent J.B. McGrath whom everyone thinks he is investigating the unsolved murder of a cop. Instead, J.B., who has roots here, is on forced vacation after a harrowing undercover assignment. As J.B. and Zoe fall in love, the mere presence of them worries a killer who wants his secrets interred with Patrick and Olivia and will add a corpse or two to insure it. The sequel to THE CABIN, THE HARBOR is an exciting police procedural romantic suspense that works on all cylinders due to the mentally wounded cops. Most interesting is that neither Zoe nor J.B. are actively seeking the culprit, but everyone believes that is what both are doing, which ironically leads the duet into sleuthing. Readers will like the heroes and much of the townsfolk, but will be surprised with the identity of the villain, whom comes out of nowhere. Carla Neggers provides a powerful tale that readers will enjoy and demand Christina¿s story next. Harriet Klausner

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Read it!

Definitely not her best, but I enjoyed it. I am certainly no book critic, but I AM a reader. She entertained me with this book, and reading, I always find out something I didn't know before.

Harbor a dud

With all due respect to the author and my fellow readers, I found this book to be quite boring. For a murder mystery, there was very little in the way of suspense, and it wasn't very hard to figure out who the murderer is. As far as romantic thrillers go, I've read much better.

Excellent book!

Once again Vermont is the setting for one of Carla Negger's suspense filled romances. J.B. McGrath turns his forced vacation into work when he is drawn into investigating the murder of a local Goose Harbor resident and the burglaries that have struck his youngest daughter's cafe. He finds himself with an unwanted assistant, former detective Zoe West, who has come home to face the ghosts she left behind her. Those same ghosts are a part of the current investigation, as it is her father's murder and her sister's cafe that have caught J.D.'s attention. Small towns are filled with secrets and rivalry, Goose Harbor no less than any other. Digging for the truth will expose many of these, and force Zoe to face the destiny that she fled. Despite her and J.D's best intentions, they can not fight the heated attraction between them for very long, thus making their risks seem greater and more personal. ***** With an uncertain future ahead for both of them, and slim chances for survival to make the choices they must, Zoe and J.D. sizzle throughout this novel, ala MOONLIGHTING style. Carla Neggers delivers her classic story, making good use of the world she is most familiar with, small town Vermont. ***** REVIEWER: Amanda Killgore

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