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For His Daughter
Father first - protector always.
Nothing mattered more to Officer Lee Garvey than upholding the law - except his little girl. When murder hit too close to home, Lee had to put aside his badge to solve the crime - or lose his child. Only one woman could help. And she wouldn't give him the time of day...
Kayla Coughlin had her reasons for avoiding Lee. But seeing the tough-as-nails cop with his tiny daughter melted her defenses. Suddenly the desire she'd fought to hide was flaring out of control. She had to help Lee find the real killer - before Lee learned the secrets buried deep in her heart...
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1999
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Dani Sinclair
68 books24 followersDani Sinclair was a 2008 RITA® finalist in the RITA®: Contemporary Series Romance: Suspense/Adventure category for her novel Midnight Prince. She was RITA finalist for her novel Better Watch Out, won a Romantic Times Magazine Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Harlequin Intrigue of 2000 for The Specialist, and was nominated for a Career Achievement award for Series Romantic Suspense.
Ms. Sinclair and her husband reside outside Washington, D.C., where they share their home with four indoor cats, a small feral colony and the varied wildlife that passes through, stopping to feed at their bird feeders on a daily basis. They are active volunteers with a local animal rescue group and urge everyone to be responsible pet owners.
Ms. Sinclair and her husband reside outside Washington, D.C., where they share their home with four indoor cats, a small feral colony and the varied wildlife that passes through, stopping to feed at their bird feeders on a daily basis. They are active volunteers with a local animal rescue group and urge everyone to be responsible pet owners.
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April 17, 2018
A Superb Romantic Mystery
October 24, 1999
Dani Sinclair delivers what may be her best book yet with "For His Daughter," a shotgun-blast of a novel that takes off and never lets up until the last page is turned. D.C. cop Lee Garvey wakes up in a motel room next to the body of his vindictive ex-wife, the scene clearly meant to show that he killed her. Unable to remember what happened the night before, he decides to elude local authorities and solve the crime himself, along the way pulling in Kayla Coughlin, his ex-wife's best friend and a key source of information.
As usual, the book contains Ms. Sinclair's immensely readable style, but this time, the solution to the crime doesn't strain the limits of credibility, making perfect, seamless sense. There are a few flashes of deep emotion in Lee's determination not to leave his two-year-old daughter without a father, and some steamy moments as Lee and Kayla figure out what their hearts have known all along. The pair are perfectly matched, and their actions always understandable. I really was not even meaning to read it. I was paging through the openings of the three November Intrigues that I hadn't read yet, trying to decide which one to move on to next. Several hours later, I finally put this book down. From a gripping opening to the final revelations, it's a first-class mystery that romantic suspense fans should find equally engrossing.
October 24, 1999
Dani Sinclair delivers what may be her best book yet with "For His Daughter," a shotgun-blast of a novel that takes off and never lets up until the last page is turned. D.C. cop Lee Garvey wakes up in a motel room next to the body of his vindictive ex-wife, the scene clearly meant to show that he killed her. Unable to remember what happened the night before, he decides to elude local authorities and solve the crime himself, along the way pulling in Kayla Coughlin, his ex-wife's best friend and a key source of information.
As usual, the book contains Ms. Sinclair's immensely readable style, but this time, the solution to the crime doesn't strain the limits of credibility, making perfect, seamless sense. There are a few flashes of deep emotion in Lee's determination not to leave his two-year-old daughter without a father, and some steamy moments as Lee and Kayla figure out what their hearts have known all along. The pair are perfectly matched, and their actions always understandable. I really was not even meaning to read it. I was paging through the openings of the three November Intrigues that I hadn't read yet, trying to decide which one to move on to next. Several hours later, I finally put this book down. From a gripping opening to the final revelations, it's a first-class mystery that romantic suspense fans should find equally engrossing.
March 5, 2015
This was certainly a compelling storyline. The characters are just two one-dimensional for the most part to suit me. There is the classic evil ex-wife, determined to keep the little girl away from dad on Father's Day. Dad is a DC cop who clearly has all kinds of reasons to hate the ex-wife, but he secretly struggles with his desires for the ex's best friend, Kayla. Kayla is everything ex-wife is not, despite being her friend. Kayla is a loving, kind woman who would make the perfect mommy.
So there's a nasty Father's Day fight that is more than a little public. He doesn't get to see his daughter; ex-wife makes life as difficult as she can for him. The next morning, the DC cop awakens with the bloody corpse of his ex-wife in the sack next to him. Conveniently enough for the pollen, he has no memory of anything that happened that night after the public dispute.
Because he's a cop, he knows two things--that he's the prime suspect in the killing and that he has to distract the small-town cops until he can figure out who really killed her--assuming it wasn't him.
There are a lot of fundamental flaws with this book. The bulk of the characters are just rather poorly developed. Hours after Lee wakes up in bed with the dead and bloody ex, he's doing the intense kiss-and-cuddle thing with her friend, Kayla, who had been tasked by the ex-wife with caring for the couple's daughter and working to ensure that the child's dad didn't get to see her on Father's Day. It all just seemed a bit contrived and lacking in the kind of gloss and shine you would want in a book as compact as this one is. In all fairness, the author didn't have a great deal of room to develop her characters, but even with that stricture in place, she could have done somewhat better.
The real upside to reading this was that it takes place in and near communities in which i spent a great deal of time in the '90s. It seemed odd to read about cars turning onto Montgomery Village Avenue, for example.
In the spirit of full disclosure and confession, let me admit here that I sometimes just snag a book spontaneously while looking for something else entirely. This title came up in a Bookshare search while I was looking for something entirely unrelated.
So there's a nasty Father's Day fight that is more than a little public. He doesn't get to see his daughter; ex-wife makes life as difficult as she can for him. The next morning, the DC cop awakens with the bloody corpse of his ex-wife in the sack next to him. Conveniently enough for the pollen, he has no memory of anything that happened that night after the public dispute.
Because he's a cop, he knows two things--that he's the prime suspect in the killing and that he has to distract the small-town cops until he can figure out who really killed her--assuming it wasn't him.
There are a lot of fundamental flaws with this book. The bulk of the characters are just rather poorly developed. Hours after Lee wakes up in bed with the dead and bloody ex, he's doing the intense kiss-and-cuddle thing with her friend, Kayla, who had been tasked by the ex-wife with caring for the couple's daughter and working to ensure that the child's dad didn't get to see her on Father's Day. It all just seemed a bit contrived and lacking in the kind of gloss and shine you would want in a book as compact as this one is. In all fairness, the author didn't have a great deal of room to develop her characters, but even with that stricture in place, she could have done somewhat better.
The real upside to reading this was that it takes place in and near communities in which i spent a great deal of time in the '90s. It seemed odd to read about cars turning onto Montgomery Village Avenue, for example.
In the spirit of full disclosure and confession, let me admit here that I sometimes just snag a book spontaneously while looking for something else entirely. This title came up in a Bookshare search while I was looking for something entirely unrelated.
June 14, 2012
When the hero went to go get this daughter from his ex wife, he encountered the heroine, whom babysits his daughter and his ex wife, who refused to let him have his daughter for fathers day. When he woke up the next morning he found his ex wife, dead, next to him. Knowing that it couldn't possibly him, he decided to investigate, which just gets him shot up. Eventually child services takes his daughter and they are still on the hunt for the real killer. Some things are revealed, some hearts are broken and there is quite a bit more action.
The novel was decent and likable but I couldn't help but feel that something was missing from this novel, maybe the lack of romance. I'm not really sure, I just didn't think it was worth four stars.
The novel was decent and likable but I couldn't help but feel that something was missing from this novel, maybe the lack of romance. I'm not really sure, I just didn't think it was worth four stars.
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