Publishers Weekly
06/27/2016
Bestseller Neggers’s sixth novel featuring FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan (after 2015’s Keeper’s Reach) generates a lot of smoke but not much fire. Retired FBI agent Gordon Wheelock, an art-theft expert, calls on Emma at her Boston office to tell her that he recently ran into Oliver York, an English “mythologist” and art thief, at a party in London. Oliver, who was hunted by Emma’s grandfather Wendell Sharpe, founder of Sharpe Fine Art Recovery, will never be prosecuted for his crimes, mainly because he has agreed to help MI5. A subsequent social gathering at the Sharpe family place in Heron’s Cove, Maine, happens to include Gordon, Oliver, Wendell, and Emma’s brother, Lucas, who now runs the art-recovery business. Everyone is suspicious of Oliver, and everyone knows Gordon is holding back info, but it takes a late murder to move the story from a slow simmer to a brief boil. Neggers does a good job exploring the relationships among recurring characters, but she does so at the expense of action and suspense. Agent: Jodi Reamer, Writers House. (Aug.)
From the Publisher
"Everything is out of control, and nothing is as it seems, making for the intense, edge-of-your-seat whirlwind that best-selling Neggers does so well in her Sharpe & Donovan series. In this particularly wild cat-and-mouse installment, Neggers has her characters zipping from Maine to Ireland, where families form an alliance to take down a deadly killer." -Booklist
"[A] suspenseful, fast-moving thriller filled with plot twists and excitement to the delightful conclusion." -Reader TO Reader
"The unforgettable characters make Neggers' story extraordinarily memorable." -RT Book Reviews, Top Pick, on Keeper's Reach
"Neggers delivers another spellbinding, chilling, complex page-turner... Her characters will awe readers and the 'ah-ha' moment is priceless. Brava!" -RT Book Reviews, Top Pick, on Harbor Island
"Well-plotted, intriguing and set mostly in the lushly described Irish countryside, the novel is smart and satisfying." -Kirkus Reviews on Declan's Cross
"Heron's Cove gives romantic suspense fans what they want...complex mystery with a bit of romance." -RT Book Reviews, Top Pick
"Saint's Gate is the best book yet from a writer at the absolute top of her craft." -Providence Journal
"Saint's Gate...is a fast-paced, action-packed tale of romantic suspense that will appeal to fans of Lisa Jackson and Lisa Gardner." -Library Journal
Library Journal
03/15/2016
More romantic suspense from the New York Times best-selling Neggers, who gives top FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan their sixth case. And dicey it is. An art crimes investigator who had retired from the bureau is found murdered, and subsequent revelations of blackmail, greed, entitlement, and plain meanness could set Emma's family of private art detectives against the FBI.
