Last Kiss | 
|  | | | Title: | Last Kiss | | Author: | Luanne Rice | | Publisher: | Bantam | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | 15 July, 2008 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0553805126 / 9780553805123 | | List Price: | $25.00 | | You Save: | $8.50 | | Amazon Price: | $16.50 | |
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New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice returns to Hubbard’s Point, Connecticut, and to characters from her beloved Beach Girls, to tell the haunting story of a close-knit community grappling with a heartbreaking mystery, and of a woman rebuilding her world and reclaiming a love she believed lost a lifetime ago.
A face on a poster, a name in the news, an inexplicable tragedy. A promising young man goes out one warm summer evening and is found dead—murdered—less than twenty-four hours later. No motive. No clues. No answers. Most people reflect briefly on the disturbing headlines, perhaps say a silent prayer of safely removed sympathy, and go on with their lives. But what if the young man was your son? Or your true love?
Nearly a year after the death of eighteen-year-old Charlie, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare still hasn’t played a note of the music that was once her life’s passion. Tucked away in the beach house where she raised her only child, she lives with her memories of him and a grief too big to share even with her beloved sisters or her dear friend Stevie Moore. Nor can Stevie comfort Charlie’s heartbroken girlfriend, Nell Kilvert, whom she regards as a daughter. Nell won’t rest until she finds out what really happened to the boy she loved. Out of the past she summons a man she believes cares enough, and is tough enough, to uncover the truth—Sheridan’s long-ago soul mate, Gavin Dawson.
Now Gavin’s boat, the Squire Toby, sits anchored in the harbor within sight of the window of the woman he once loved, still loves, and will always love. Sheridan, too, had once fervently believed in the miraculous power of love and healing, forgiveness, connection, and reconnection. But that faith died along with her son….
Unfolding among the Hubbard’s Point people and places that fans have come to treasure, and replete with feeling and mystery, Last Kiss weighs the power of the past to heal as well as wound, in a captivating tale of love, loss, and redemption that no reader will ever forget.
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• Series Pleaser 25 October, 2008
Again, another in a series or similar plot line. It is a great summer and fall read. Sit down, drink your wine and put your feet up.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AJNWU281UN01C
• Exciting Investigative Romance 02 August, 2008
One year may have past since Charlie died in what the New York police determined was a random act; however, his mother singer/songwriter Sheridan still grieves her loss, numbing her pain with Wild Turkey. Joining her in mourning is Charlie's girlfriend Nell who has worn a ragged anklet cloth he gave her 350 plus days ago just prior to the lethal mugging. Both women who adored Charlie visit his gravesite in Hubbard's Point, Connecticut regularly.
Nell has doubts about the NYPD rush to judgment that her beloved was in the wrong place at the wrong time due to a bad luck occurrence. She needs to prove the cops wrong, but understands this is real life not fiction so an amateur is not successfully sleuthing. Instead she hires private investigator former Hubbard's Point native son Gavin Dawson to uncover the truth of what happened to Charlie. Gavin has an extra incentive as his beloved Sheridan tossed him to the curb for his youthful out of control lifestyle; he prays maturity and solving the case will give him a second chance with Sheridan.
The return to Hubbard's Point (see THE PERFECT SUMMER, SUMMER'S CHILD and SUMMER OF ROSES) is an exciting investigative romance with a touch of the paranormal and a feel of homecoming (appearances by former stars) although mourning is everywhere. The inquiry raises some intriguing questions related to Charlie's death, but though driven by a personal cause Gavin struggles to affirm premeditated. However, the key to the tale is Sheridan whose grief is so strong that her melancholy seems to be overwhelming Gavin's attempts for a second chance at love. LAST KISS is a deep character driven thriller.
Harriet Klausner
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• Not As Good As Light Of The Moon, However... 29 August, 2008
This novel was a good read and very entertaining. It wasn't as breath taking as her previous novel Light of the Moon, which I thought was fantastic, but you will not be disappointed.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1TYR7IR1UZNVO
• Arizona Apache Revisits Connecticut 21 September, 2008
Having known Luanne as we were young, I purchased this for a very close and dear girlfreind of mine whom lives on the San Carlos Indian Reservation. I had taken her to Mystic once, and thought she may enjoy a story by Luanne of Connecticut. I was right, she loved it and I am sure that I will be sending her many more books by Luanne.Thank-you Luanne----Jon S.----
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• Couldn't Put It Down! 24 September, 2008
This book was awesome on so many different levels. i promise that you will not be disappointed.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A36L6K4K4YK4YW
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