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Deadly embrace / Jackie Collins.
In the thrilling and erotic follow-up to "Lethal seduction," Madison digs into her mob hitman father's past, trying to resolve the mystery that surrounded her mother's death many years before.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780743424103 :
- ISBN: 0743424107 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780743216487 :
- ISBN: 0743216482 :
- ISBN: 9780743216487
- ISBN: 0743216482
- Physical Description: 517 p. ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Prequel and sequel to ... Lethal seduction"--Jacket. |
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| Subject: | Castelli, Madison (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Women journalists > Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Romantic suspense fiction. Erotic thrillers. Suspense fiction. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Castlegar Public Library | FIC COL (Text) | 35146001030675 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Monthly Selections - #1 June 2002
Things aren't going well for Madison Castelli, last seen in Lethal Seduction (2000). Her father, Michael, is accused of a double murder (well, he is a mobster), and her photographer boyfriend has been missing in Colombia for 10 days, "which is pretty damn worrying." Needing "a break to get her head on straight," Madison heads to L.A., where she is promptly involved in a hostage situation in a trendy restaurant. And so it goes in Collins' glitzy, melodramatic world. Seemingly flying on automatic pilot, Collins throws together her usual grab bag of outrageous events stitched together in alternating story lines and described in laughable prose. The dialogue consists of gems such as, "You treat me like crap, Michael, then you expect me to fall gratefully into your arms like God's gift." Or the ever popular: "Give it to me, Mike, give it to me good." But to give Collins her due, she is a master of pacing. Each short chapter, alternating between the past and present and exploring the lives and loves of Madison's family, trots briskly along, filled with drugs, sex, murder, and mayhem--and concluding, just like a Jane Austen novel, with an oh-so-happy wedding. For the addicted. ((Reviewed June 1 & 15, 2002)) Copyright 2002 Booklist Reviews - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2002 June #2
Celebrity journalist Madison Castelli's life is falling apart.Her father, Michael Castelli, vanishes after being accused of a double homicide: Stella (Madison's stepmother) and her live-in lover are shot, execution-style. And Madison's boyfriend, ace photographer Jake, has gone missing while getting the scoop on a Colombian drug cartel. Undaunted, Madison heads straight for a trendy LA restaurant to be consoled by her gay personal trainer and TV-personality best friend. No sooner is the designer water brought than Uzi-toting bandits burst in, ordering Madison and her companions to hit the floor. Maybe someone has it in for Madison? Travel back (and forth) in time occurs as the sordid facts of her parentage are established. Her grandfather is shot and paralyzed in a staged hold-up by a jealous girlfriend, fatally wounding Michael's sainted mother. The child enters the world as his mother expires, soon showing entrepreneurial promise selling hijacked cartons of cigarettes in his father's grocery. Siring first Madison, then her half-brother Vincent and half-sister Sofia, Michael is a man of mystery with a heart of gold. Unbelievably handsome and pursued by amorous women wherever he goes, he makes a fortune in Las Vegas from various shadowy deals, though his jealous nemesis stalks him still. Meanwhile, back at the restaurant, Madison contemplates fighting back, manicure be damned. More time travel awaits and further complications unfold: Madison's mother had escaped from a polygamous Mormon marriage as a virginal teenager, becoming a showgirl and conceiving her daughter in a one-night stand. Meanwhile, back once more at the restaurant, the Uzi-toting thugs get carried away and all hell breaks loose. Can it be that the old (very old by now) girlfriend, the menacing Mamie, is behind this staged hold-up, too?Preposterous plot, unattractive characters, and crude dialogue make for a lackluster sequel to Lethal Seduction (2001). No razzle-dazzle, no Hollywood cameos, and, worst of all, no shopping. Copyright Kirkus 2002 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2002 February #2
Picking up where Lethal Seduction left off, this novel tracks sassy celebrity writer Madison's efforts to uncover her father's mobster past. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2002 June #1
The godmother of glam/vamp fiction returns with a campy prequel/sequel to Lethal Seduction, digging down and dirty to find the roots of celebrity journalist Madison Castelli's twisted family tree. Madison, first introduced in Collins's L.A. Connections series, plays a supporting role in this soapy sex-o-rama. This time, her father, Michael Castelli, a handsome "wiseguy" turned tycoon, takes center stage, along with his lover, stunning Las Vegas showgirl Dani Castle. Castelli has been accused of killing not one but two women: Beth, Madison's mother, and Stella, the woman Madison believed to be her mom. He is acquitted of the first murder with the help of his mob boss buddy, Vito Giovanni, aka Mr. G., who is unfortunately deceased by the time the second hit occurs. The nasty men responsible for framing Castelli are threatening to take out more of his loved ones if he doesn't cough up money Mr. G. promised them before he died. While Castelli knows that means they could harm not only Madison but Dani, mother of Madison's two step-siblings Sofia, teen wild child now on the prowl in Europe, and Vincent, young Vegas hotel mogul he also knows these crooks are responsible for the murder of his own mother, making retribution his ultimate goal. Throughout the readable if sometimes turgid saga, which skips from Michael and Dani's New York and Las Vegas pasts to the present-day ordeal of Madison held hostage at an upscale L.A. restaurant, the bombardment of amoral antics leaves the reader either reaching for an antacid or a very dry martini. Warning: the tongue-in-cheek/family-feel-good denouement cheerfully opens the door for another sequel. (June) Forecast: Collins knows no limits in salacious prose or sales. Expect Deadly Embrace to sizzle on bestseller lists this summer. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
