Title: Crima and Passion an awkward mix
Review: Deadly Affairs is the second book in a new imprint by Virgin called Crime and Passion. Virgin is famous for the famous Black Lace series of erotica. The point of the new imprint is to mix erotica with crime fiction. Too bad it doesn't work. The "sexy bits" seem like they were just added to fulfill guidelines (erotica must have 50% sex scenes). The story itself is okay, not a very complicated mystery at all. A womanizing executive is killed and the hero, John Anderson finds out that there are many people with a reason to kill. The sex scenes are well written, but they add nothing to the book except to make it a bit naughty. I won't even go into the cold, controling "hero" or the slutty female executive or the sexually repressed diviorcee. Too cliched to bother with. Hopefully as the imprint grows, the books will get better. I think mysteries can be very sexy. I'll keep reading the Crime and Passion series in hopes of a better read.
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