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| Blue Smoke and Murder | 
 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Lowell
Publisher: William Morrow
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.5
ISBN: 0060829850
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060829858
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Jill Breck was just doing her job as a river guide when she saved the life of Lane Faroe, son of two of St. Kilda Consulting's premier operators. But when a string of ominous events—including a mysterious fire that kills her great-aunt and a furor in the Western art world raised by a dozen Breck family paintings—culminates in a threat to her life, Jill reluctantly calls in a favor. Zach Balfour works part-time as a consultant for St. Kilda. His expertise is gathering and analyzing information from unlikely and often dangerous sources. Though he's got the skills to be a highly effective bodyguard, being a bullet catcher isn't his preferred way to spend time. Protecting Jill will take him into familiar territory—among a strange, savagely competitive bunch of collectors who'll do anything to stay at the top. But Jill is in deeper waters than she's ever known; as she soon discovers, the perils of running wild rivers are tame compared with the hidden dangers in the high-stakes game of art collecting. From the cozy rooms of the Breck homestead cabin to the cold multimillion-dollar galleries of the Western art circuit, Zach and Jill must race against time to unmask a ruthless killer hidden in a blue smoke of money, threats, lies, and death. . . .
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 Who Knows September 26, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have no idea what this book is about as my Kindle broke after using it 4 times and I am stuck paying for a book that I never read and no one that will awnser me when I try to contact them.
Can this even be called romance??? September 10, 2008
I"m all for learning something when I read a book. However, when I read a "romance" book I expect some romance, especially from EL. How I long for the days of the Donovan clan. There you learned something and still got a very strong romantic story. No so with all the St. Kilda books. I hope EL (once one of my "buy anything she writes" authors) will find better balance in future work.
 Not so good August 31, 2008
Zack and Jill? Good grief. The entire feminist approach was also rather hard to take. I am certainly an independent female, but I don't find it necessary to hit people over the head with it. Also, what was the attachment between Jill and her great aunt? It didn't seem so strong before her murder. Jill never went to see her or communicated with her and now that she is dead, Jill is determined on revenge.
There are so many things in this book that don't seem to make sense. All that build up and then the easily seen villian is just sort of thrown out in the last few pages. The murderer sure does some strange things - perhaps the steriods?
I am read most of Ms. Lowell's books and was looking forward to this one. I even bought the hardback and it was a waste of money. I hope Ms. Lowell has not written herself out as I have enjoyed so many of her previous books.
If you anticipate reading this one, I suggest you get it from the library.
 BLUE SMOKE MURDER August 26, 2008
Excellent, well written, keeps you involved from the beginning to the end. This is one book you can't wait for the ending for what happens yet you really don't want it to come that soon. Also, very little romance. good suspense and action....rich
A little Boring /but Not Terrible August 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
IT took me longer to read this newest book of Lowell's. In one way it was fast paced but there is page after page of text book essays of how the art world works. I have read so many Romance/Mystery or thriller about the art world and don't think I ever read one with such detail to every aspect of it. I found it terrible boring and found myself skimming or just putting the book aside.
The second thing that bothered me was the whole Feminist attitude about everything. IT was brought in every few pages. Okay we get it! One paragraph has Zach asking Jill if she needs help moving a heavy trunk. She tells me she doesn't "need" his help but if he "wants" to help that's fine. Geesh! The author makes it out that Jill can take care of herself and doesn't need any man but interesting when threatened she calls St Kilda for help. h-m-m-m-m! THe feminist idea spilled over into too many areas of the book. I, myself am not threatened by whether my husband can do something better than me. I'm independent and don't feel the need to prove it. What a waste of time! It seems like over half the book is wasted with the descriptive art world and the whole independednt female idea. The book could have been pages shorter.
I could not believe that these experts at St Kilda wouldn't have thought of a bug and even at one point it's mentioned but not pursued. You would have thought they would have equipment to detect a bug. Then I took issue with the fact that Jill would be sent out alone to face the killer. That was a bit unbelieveable.
It was fun to read about the previous characters again and Faroe and Grace's new baby. I did like Zach and Jill's characters and thought they connected well. The book is not a total let down and some may find the information on the art world interesting but think I have just read too many for it to be interesting anymore. Nora Roberts has several books that involved the art world as does Elizabeth Adler and I don't think they went on in such detail about it. One almost looses track of what is going on-it's distracting. I skimmed so much that I may have missed some of the story line but felt I knew what was going on and finally just wanted to get to the end.
The storyline was okay but just too long with too many details. As I said not a keeper for me but not a terrible book either.
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