Sky Blues by
Vicki Hendricks
pbk out June 02
(Serpent's Tail)
at £10
Dr Destiny Donne, Desi for short, is dedicating all her energy to her dream career as a vet working with exotic animals. She has landed a plum job in Lion Country, in the sticks of central Florida, but the reality of unremitting, sun-drenched isolation and the rounds of fecal checks and vaccinations, lead Desi close to despair. Then Tom Jenks, 6ft, blond and drop-dead gorgeous, rolls up with a needy lion cub. Desi and Tom embark on a passionate affair, and he introduces her to the addictive rush of sky-diving.
Desi is drawn deeper and deeper into the relationship and becomes increasingly dependent, snared by the heady kicks of sex and danger.
Sky Blues is erotic noir, a sultry, smouldering, brooding read, with the mounting tension expertly orchestrated. Conspiracy to murder and insatiable sexual attraction played out against the brilliant, blinding backdrop or burning sugarcane and the icy thrills of plunging form the sky. Recommended.
Manchester Evening News 10.8.02
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries set on the mean streets of Manchester)
