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On her thirtieth birthday, Annalise Blakely gets a strange package. Inside, along with one of her company's hand-crafted dolls, is a note: I don't need this anymore. I have my own. Annalise puts the package aside-she has enough on her mind. Since her mother died, Annalise has been working nonstop to keep Blakely Dolls a success. Her deadbeat dad wants to be back in the picture. And she's dating again.
But the policeman she's seeing has chilling news: someone is murdering women, dressing them up as Blakely Dolls, and leaving them for the police to find. And, although no one knows it yet, the killer is stalking Annalise, the model for the original doll, for his final display...
This taut, fast-paced romantic thriller from Cassidy (Are You Afraid? etc.) opens on doll maker Annalise Blakely desperately trying to keep her mother's business afloat while her best friend, Danika, tries to hook her up with her sexy homicide cop neighbor, Tyler King. Annalise and Tyler do hit it off immediately, but their budding relationship is marred by a killer who strangles women and dresses them up to look like the dolls Annalise designs-making her a prime suspect. Annalise tries to keep her new relationship afloat while rekindling connections to estranged family. Meanwhile, the killer looms and threatens to make her his next doll. Annalise and Tyler have good chemistry, and their romance shines. The doll thing wears thin pretty fast, however, and the killer is a stereotypical nut. (Mar.)
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March 26, 2008: This is Cassidy's best yet. All of her books are an excellent read but this one is one that I had to get up out of bed and check for the 3rd time if I had locked the door, The ending was a great surprise and this book is a winner
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January 28, 2008: In Kansas City, Annalise ?Dollmaker? Blakely continues to make the two dolls a year that her mother started thirty years ago with the first ?Annalise? doll to honor her daughter?s birth. Since her beloved mom recently died, Annalise struggles 24/7 to keep her mom?s business from going bankrupt. Worse her estranged dad wants back in now that her mom is dead she does not trust the man who sired her to do anything but siphon funds for his personal use.---------------- Meanwhile her best friend, PR guru Danika wants to date homicide detective Tyler King. Instead Tyler prefers courting Annalise. However, their attraction is put on hold when a serial killer begins strangling women to death before turning them into looking like an Annalise doll. She is the prime suspect even as the killer gloats that he/she is the Real Dollmaker.------------ This is an enjoyable serial killer romance starring two likable protagonists and a stereotypical psychopath. The story line is fast-paced with the relationship between the sleuth and the doll maker cleverly designed so that he has some niggling doubts as to whether she is the killer. Fans will enjoy Carla Cassidy?s latest romantic suspense thriller as Annalise and Tyler make a fine couple----------------- Harriet Klausner