Sharp Edges Krentz, Jayne Ann

Amazon.com Review Jayne Anne Krentz is an impresario for creating characters that are both quirky and original. Eugenia Swift is the Director of a world renowned glass museum, Cyrus Chandler Colfax is a private detective who is as rough hewn as Eugenia is slick. When the two get together, readers know that sparks will fly and glass will shatter--especially since the two are posing as a couple to investigate the mysterious death of a famous glass collector. Since this is a romantic suspense, passion flames and ignites molten love despite the ulterior motives of the two leading characters. One of the very best things about reading a Jayne Ann Krentz romance is that her heroines are always intelligent! --Kate Ryan Product Description Museum curator Eugenia Swift and Cyrus Colfax, a rough-hewn private investigator, enter the sinister, high-stakes world of priceless art, where they discover that the most valuable commodity is knowing whom to trust. From Library Journal Krentz's latest fast-paced, sexy, romantic mystery centers on elegant, educated art-glass expert Eugenia Swift and rugged, no-nonsense security agent Cyrus Chandler Colfax. They are set down in a secluded artists' colony on a small Puget Sound island to inventory a noted glass collection and to check into the death of its owner. The sparks between the reluctant partners are immediate and antagonistic; but when a calculating killer leaves a body in the wine cellar, they reassess their relationship?with dangerous and passionate results. Treachery, greed, and the quest for a priceless glass bowl drive the plot of this fast-paced romance that will appeal to the writer's many fans. Krentz (Deep Waters, Pocket, 1997) is a veteran writer of lively romances filled with strong protagonists and witty dialog; she lives in the Seattle area. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews Perhaps Krentz's fiction (Grand Passion, 1994, etc.) ought to be packaged with madeleines, if only to reinforce the sense of d?j... vu her fans must feel with every page, tripping over bits and pieces that have been used in her historical romances, written as Amanda Quick, and that may well be incorporated in her science-fictional ones, written as Jayne Castle. But possibly the imaginative recycling of plot and character is the only way one author can turn out so many pseudonymous bestsellers and have them be more than typing exercises, which Krentz does admirably. Here, Eugenia Swift, director of Seattle's Leabrook Museum, which specializes in old glass, is off to Frog Cove Island, ostensibly to catalogue the plummy collection bequeathed to the Leabrook by Adam Daventry, an unsavory connoisseur who collected female artists, along with their work, and who died after falling down a flight of stairs. In truth, though, Eugenia has another agenda: to look into the death of Nellie Grant, an artist friend who disappeared in a boating accident the day after Daventry's death. To her chagrin, Eugenia is forced by her benefactress, Tabitha Leabrook, a sweet little old lady with a fondness for plastic surgery, to take along private investigator Cyrus Chandler Colfax. As it turns out, Cyrus, who's supposedly along to assure Daventry's executors that his death was indeed accidental, also has his own agenda: to locate a fourth-century Roman glass cup stolen three years earlier by corrupt collector Damien March, who shot the p.i. and then murdered his wife. Confined together in Glass House, Daventry's three-story stately chunk of crystal and mirrors, Eugenia and Cyrus solve their respective mysteries--including, of course, the requisite sweet mystery of life. Krentz's usual lilting, charming prose and slightly eccentric characters find themselves at the service of a regrettably pedestrian suspenser. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Review Eugenia Swift is the director of the Leabrook Glass Museum. Cyrus Chandler Colfax is a private investigator and the