The Crush Kindle Edition

A very good read, my favorite author. A1 condition

Very lengthy. Shorter would be better. Story was very good. Just when you think you've reached the end of the book something else happens.

THE CRUSH by Sandra Brown ranks as one of her best. The two main characters were developed well and quickly brought to life through Brown’s genius. The story begins with Dr. Rennie Newton, a brilliant and beautiful surgeon, performing her civic duty as foreperson on a jury that acquits a well known and life-long contract killer, Ricky Lozada. Days after the trial ended, Dr. Newton’s colleague and fellow surgeon, Dr. Lee Howell, is found murdered in the hospital parking lot. Doctors Newton and Howell had been in competition for the job as chief of surgery at the hospital. An undercurrent builds against Dr. Newton as the person somehow responsible for the demise of Dr. Howell. During Lozada’s trial he had become obsessed with foreperson, Dr. Rennie Newton. Following his acquittal, he stalked her, showered her with dozens of unwanted roses, phone calls and scary love notes. Fort Worth PD detective, Oren Wesley, suspects Dr. Newton’s involvement in the Howell murder and asks former detective, Wick Threadgill, who is on temporary suspension, to come back to Fort Worth and assist him in solving Dr. Howell’s murder. Wesley also suspects Lozada is involved in Howell’s murder. Wick has good reason to return in that Lozada is suspected of murdering his brother, Joe, a FWPD detective months earlier. Wick Threadgill soon becomes romantically involved with Dr. Rennie Newton. This complicates and impedes the FWPD’s pursuit of the case. Without giving away the twists and turns and the excitement that comes with each page, I will say only that I very much enjoyed the narrative and the characters who I hope Sandra Brown chooses to use again in a follow up sequel. It is not a complicated story and has few participants but you will enjoy the mystery and the romance for its simplicity and intrigue. I give the book a 5-star rating.

Really enjoy all of her books!Big fan!!

Sandra Brown has done it again! I have read many of her books and enjoyed every one. The one thing I like about her books is that she doesn't have a 'cookie cutter' method of writing. Each one has its own personality. In 'the Crush' she has captured her characters personalities so you can visualize them clearly. You may come to think of them as friends or foes. It has an interesting plot with a few twists to keep you interested. All in all an enjoyable read.Snazzy

When a colleague is killed, Dr. Rennie Newton is shocked to find out it was a deliberate precision killing. Gossip starts to fly when it is disclosed that she and the deceased doctor were in line for the same job and fought often. Rennie's situation gets a lot worse when she finds out the man suspected of the recent death is none other than Ricky Lozada. She recently served on the jury at his trial.Wick Threadgill is on leave from the Fort Worth police force. He has been accused of losing perspective after the death of his brother Joe. It is assumed that Ricky also committed this murder. His partner Oren has asked him to come and discretely watch Rennie because Oren is convinced she is the key to finding Ricky.Wick determines early on that Rennie is innocent. As he gets closer to her, they find themselves unable to deny the attraction between them. When Wick realizes that Ricky has an attachment to Rennie, he will do anything to protect her.This is one of my favorite books by SB. Ricky is one of the creepiest killers I have ever read. He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. I also liked Rennie and Wick. They had chemistry overload!

My issue was mostly with the "Good Guys" in the male department. Usually Brown keeps them way less sleazy than this. No one is perfect and some flaws show dynamic facets of character, but there is a TON of victim blaming, past the point of normal suspicion. Entitled behavior towards Rennie and her privacy and past, despite who she clearly is in the present. Wick acts almost predatory himself in a lot of situations and throws tantrums like a child when he's not getting his way...big turn off. Buy the time I was getting to the last 100 pages, I felt somewhat violated for Rennie and hoped she ended up just turning him down flat and carrying on her life without him. She could do way better. Wesley is over the top in his discrimination towards her the entire time. It's ridiculous. Rennie sounds like if she really had anyone in her life who cared about her, they would be advocating some serious therapy sessions. She has too much guilt that turns into self destructive behavior as an adult. It's kind of hard to get past all of that in the reading.

I have read all but her latest fictional love/action/supense books that are over 300 pagesl I don't read any books that are under 300 pages. Whole her plots are mostly the same, what separates each is the amount of info detailing. That is one thing that separates her from so many other popular authors. Even though the reader knows the hero and the heroine end up together, the info in each book is worth the reading., and why I reread all of her books.