Charade (1994) - Sandra Brown

Category: Adults, Contemporary, Suspense
Language: English
Keywords: Television Personalities Transplant Patient

Written by Sandra Brown
Read by Nataie Ross
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, [2010]
Length: 14hrs

A TV star with a new lease on life must team up with an ex-cop to investigate a series of murders and dark secrets while danger lurks just outside her door.

A medical miracle gives TV personality Cat Delaney more than a new heart. With her second chance at life Cat trades Hollywood for San Antonio, where she hosts a TV show for children with special needs. Here she meets Alex Pierce, an ex-cop turned crime writer — and the first man to see her as a woman since her surgery.

But her new world turns sinister when fatal “accidents” begin killing other heart recipients, and a mysterious stalker starts shadowing her every move. Soon Cat realizes Alex may or may not be her most important ally — and that her new heart comes at a terrible price: a tangled web of secrets and someone determined to take her life.

Publishers Weekly…
“Soap opera star Cat Delaney gets a new heart–literally and figuratively speaking–in bestseller Brown’s contemporary romance. The heart transplant that beautiful, arrogant Cat endures in the first chapter transforms her soul along with her cardiovascular system. If Brown had first established Cat’s personality with some depth and credibility, that might have been the basis of an emotionally involving story. But since Cat is little more than a vessel for the concept, before we can blink, she is a good-hearted citizen who abandons stardom and Hollywood for San Antonio, Tex., where she hosts a local TV program featuring children up for adoption. Cat hardly has a chance to enjoy her change of heart and her new heartthrob, bad-boy crime novelist Alex Pierce, because a stalker is after her. …. But Brown fails to develop even a modicum of tension, since the rushed pacing then slows to a crawl where nothing much happens except Cat’s cliche-ridden romance with Alex. Too late in the novel, we finally get a more full and sympathetic characterization of Cat.”

As you can tell, not one of Sandra Brown’s best. But this was almost 30 years ago (1994) and she has had time to improve.

This is my new rip from CD. I removed the disk indexing from each disk. Music begins and ends each part.