When All The Girls Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz – a Review

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Description:
When Charlotte Sawyer is unable to contact her step-sister, Jocelyn, to tell her that one her closest friends was found dead, she discovers that Jocelyn has vanished.

Beautiful, brilliant—and reckless—Jocelyn has gone off the grid before, but never like this. In a desperate effort to find her, Charlotte joins forces with Max Cutler, a struggling PI who recently moved to Seattle after his previous career as a criminal profiler went down in flames—literally. Burned out, divorced and almost broke, Max needs the job.

After surviving a near-fatal attack, Charlotte and Max turn to Jocelyn’s closest friends, women in a Seattle-based online investment club, for answers. But what they find is chilling…

When her uneasy alliance with Max turns into a full-blown affair, Charlotte has no choice but to trust him with her life. For the shadows of Jocelyn’s past are threatening to consume her—and anyone else who gets in their way…

Review:

When All the Girls Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz is another one of her wonderful standalone romance suspense novels.  Charlotte Sawyer is our heroine, who works at a senior citizen home.  She loves her job, and the residents love Charlotte. With her step-sister away on a month long retreat, Charlotte goes to her house to pick up her mail;  she finds a note from her sister’s friend about a package.  When she tries to contact the friend, she is told by a private investigator that the friend is dead.  At this point of her life, though she is happy, things will drastically change.

Max Cutler is our hero, and he is a private investigator hired by the dead woman’s cousin to investigate what is presumed to be a drug overdose.  Max is very good at his job, since he used to be a profiler, but because of burnout, he gave up that to become a private investigator.    When Charlotte arrives to talk to Max about her sister’s mail, they both will strike up a friendship and partner together to try and find Jocelyn (Charlotte’s sister), and the rest of the group that formed the Investment club.  When another death occurs, Charlotte fears for her sisters life, and Max with her help will try to decipher what part of Jocelyn’s past is the real reason for the murders.   Jocelyn had been raped as a teenager, and the investment club with her friends may also be a reason due to someone wanting to keep the money for themselves. 

What follows is an interesting, exciting adventure that will bring both Max and Charlotte looking into the past to find out who was responsible for the rape; as well as investigate the people involved in the Investment Club. 

In the midst of this intriguing storyline, is a slow build romance that will develop between Max and Charlotte.  I really loved them together, as they had great camaraderie, and it was fun to watch their feelings for each other grown into love.  We also learn more about Max’s childhood that still haunts him, as well as Charlotte’s ex fiancée, who dumped her at the altar.   I also enjoyed some of the parts in the senior home, especially where one of the residents will help them.

Once again, Jayne Ann Krentz has given us a wonderful romance suspense, with an excellent plot, great characters and fun to read.  There were some surprising twists and turns along the way that kept you guessing.  If you like romance, suspense and a mystery, you can never go wrong with Jayne Ann Krentz.

Reviewed by Barb

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