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| Bad Girl | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Category: EBooks
List Price: $9.95
Buy New: $7.96
You Save: $1.99 (20%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 66152
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B000FC1PC0
Publication Date: June 1, 2004
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She never meant for it to happen. . . .
For Chicago Thomas, aka Windy, it was an offer too good to refuse: the chance to head the forensics lab at the Las Vegas Police Department. With her six-year-old daughter in tow, Windy moves to Sin City hoping to start over with a loving fiance—far from the sad memories of a first marriage that ended in tragedy. But the job of her dreams is about to take a nightmarish turn.
She wanted to be a good girl. . . .
Though the first murders appear to be random, they are savage in their intensity: an entire family, butchered in their own home. Only a few days later, another family meets the same grisly fate. To Ash Leighton, the enigmatic chief of the Metro Violent Crime Unit, the signs are clear: a serial killer is stalking Las Vegas.
But she just couldn’t help herself. . . .
In a breathless race against time, the lines between good and bad, right and wrong, begin to blur, and Windy and Ash find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. In a town where nothing is what it seems, only the evidence doesn't lie. And Windy may have to pay for the truth with her life. Sometimes being good is dangerous.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
 Suspensful, edge of your seat, up all night entertainment! April 5, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Bad Girl" incorporates the principles of personal and private self as Windy is shown both at home and with police work. Windy is a multi-demensional character that has the reader wishing to read more and more about the book.
The relationship between Windy and her fiance is an especially complicated one, she feels like she needs a safe relationship as she struggles to find her foothold in both work and in her personal life.
The both screams romance and mystery. It has a powerful woman who is so artfully crafted that she jumps off the pages. The hero is an enigma of sorts with layers hidden beneath his surface that the reader sees Windy uncover and the mystery keeps you guessing until the very end. There are twists and turns at every corner and it makes one wish to know what happens.
 Bad book, as in not good March 22, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was really bad. Maybe it should be retitled as Bad Book. It started off pretty good until the author decided to throw in one bad twist after another. In the end, the reader has a hard time keeping track of the characters and deciding for him/herself who the villain is, since the author does not provide any clues for the reader to interpret. I also found it beyond irritating for some of the characters to be grappling constantly throughout the book with the concept of "being good" or "being bad." What the heck does that mean anyways? Aaarggggg! Nobody has to be this "perfect" person unless that is what they want to achieve. I believe the author is trying to make some commentary on "perfect" people, that is really not very well welcomed when I am trying to read a mystery. I say each to his or her own, whatever makes you happy, so what and who cares. There are also major potholes in the plot that makes the story implausible, kind of like a bad CSI Las Vegas episode....
If you do not enjoy being manipulated to believe one thing and then be thrown a twist that doesn't make too much sense other than to manipulate the reader, do not read this book. May I suggest Janet Evanovich's mystery series instead. At least the stories are more plausible and it is a complete joy to read. I always feel ten times better after following Evanovich's main character's, Stephanie Plum's, funny escapdes. I felt like pulling out my hair when I finished reading Bad Girl, and especially with all the characters' neurotic thoughts, it put me in a really BAD mood.
Favorite color: Sparkle February 15, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Excellent book! I am now a Michele Jaffe fan for sure. The story grabbed you on the first page and didn't let go. Fast paced, just enough twists and surprises and a little romance thrown in for good measure. The story line was awesome and the CSI like investigation was interesting to read.
This was one of those books that made you feel like friends had left you when you turn the last page, I highly recommend this read.
Bad girl? Great book! September 23, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Whew! What a ride! Adult readers who enjoy tight, multi-faceted mystery/thriller/suspense novels will relish this book by Michelle Jaffe.
Las Vegas police criminologist Chicago Thomas is obsessively drawn to solving the particularly gruesome serial murders of several families. Using her keen eye for crime scene detail and an uncanny inner sense, she gets a good jump on pursuing the criminal. But things are not always as they seem even for an incredibly talented criminologist like Thomas and she finds herself as as the hunter and hunted at the same time.
That short synopsis, however, does not tell the whole story. Jaffe has populated her story with many excellent characters and several compelling plotlines that simultaneously grip the reader until those lines converge in a tremendous deneouement at the end of the book. No loose ends are left untied. This is a masterful novel.
Beware, however, that there are some lurid details here that will disturb some sensitive readers. While Jaffe deftly avoids graphic sexual description until a disappointing scene near the end of the book, the gritty detail of murder and life on the seamy side can be disturbing.
Jaffe's writing skills are ver impressive. She has bettered conventional, boilerplate fiction by creating great characters (even minor characters are real) who live in the reader's memory and by spinning tale intricate and succinct at the same time. A true winner.
 You should never skip breakfast . . . April 28, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
As a rule, I absolutely hate it when I get halfway into a novel and it suddenly changes into something else. This one starts as a very good police procedural murder mystery -- but at almost exactly the midpoint, the author suddenly *tells* you whodunit, and it becomes a thriller instead. Chicago "Windy" Thomas is an almost excessively competent young woman who has just left her job as a sheriff in Virginia to run the forensics lab in Las Vegas. She's trying to track down a particularly gruesome serial killer who wipes out whole families (except for the fathers) and, of course, she becomes a target herself. She has a cute six-year-old daughter and a control-freak boyfriend, but she's also drawn to Ash Laughton, head of the Metro Violent Crime Unit -- who just happens to also be a computer-software-millionaire. (I'm told there are a lot of similarities between the set-up and a top TV series, but I've never seen it.) Jaffe generally does a good job with the characters, except that I find it hard to believe that Windy was ever able to pass the FBI's personality screens. The pace is breathless, the level of detail is almost clinical, and the ending somewhat redeems the plot giveaway.
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