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Title: no suspense, no romance, no zing
Review: "Die in Plain Sight" was the second Elizabeth Lowell I read. The first, "The Color of Death" was very good, and I was hoping for more of the same.What I got was a fluffy piece with no suspense, no real drama, and characters that were so incredibly superficial they were nearly transparent. The hero in particular is hard to believe, given he is flawless in strengths, smarts and looks it makes him not very interesting to read. Even if he had a scar or SOMETHING that made him a little more tangible, it would have helped.The heroine, a zany new-ager painting prodigy, stumbles through life as a victim of happenstance. Her adventure is a jumble of hastily thrown together occurrences which happen to end with her being the protégé of a famous and beloved painter and engaged to the man of her dreams. Never did a character in a book have to work so little to achieve so much.A disappointment for sure.
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