![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pretty Reckless delivers across multiple genres. Not only does she make it work, she makes her readers route for Laney Briggs and the multiple cowboys in her life: the best friend veteran turned drunk, the one night stand, the former love or the current mistake. I won't say more about that, but I will say trust the author. Linton takes risks in her debut, committing some cardinal sins in the romantic suspense genre. Think Fargo set in small town Texas and you've got the feel of this book. ![]() Pretty Reckless is fun and funny, but it's also dark and gritty. It would be easy, but it would be so wrong. It would be easy to make that mistake because Linton has fun with her character descriptions and nails the small Texas town vernacular. Unfortunately for me, old wounds can be a bitch the same way straying cowboys can be heartbreakers.Įven though the book opens with a murder, it would be easy to believe Pretty Reckless would join the ranks of countless Texas mysteries with aw shucks investigators stumbling onto clues that miraculously lead to answers in the "who done it" tome. You know Laney is something different when you read this description of who she is: I’d pieced my heart back together and salvaged what little dignity I had left by jumping back in the saddle with a man safer than a Katherine Heigl chick flick. In Laney, Linton has created a heroine who isn't afraid of being toughly feminine in a world of men. Jodi Linton debuts with deputy sheriff Laney Briggs in her mystery Pretty Reckless. ![]()
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