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All Reve Sorrell knows about her past is that she had been thrown in a dumpster when a few hours old and eventually adopted by the high-class Sorrells. Now that her adoptive parents are dead, she starts searching for her background, ending up in Cherokee Pointe where she finds her mirror image in Jazzy Talbot, a woman as trashy as Reve is refined. Putting the truth over their dislike of each other's lifestyle, Jazzy agrees to a DNA test, even though her aunt insists that she is her sister's sole child. While the women wait for the results, tiny Cherokee Pointe is once more roiled by scandal and fear. Someone is killing women around town, raping and strangling them before dumping them in the water. Women with red hair. Women like Reve and Jazzy. AS GOOD AS DEAD completes the trilogy started with THE FIFTH VICTIM and LAST TO DIE, although it stands alone as a novel. Everything the casual reader needs to know is provided or glossed over. Billed as romantic suspense, this is a book with sex. Lots and lots of graphic sex. While it never overwhelms the plot, this is definitely a torrid romance as much as a murder mystery. Jazzy is working up the nerve to accept her boyfriend's proposal, while Reve hates the local sheriff with a passion that guarantees that they'll be in bed by the end of the book. Even the killer is in a relationship of sorts, as he finds his greatest satisfaction in raping and killing his Diana . . . no matter whose body he thinks she inhabits at the time. But the serial killer isn't the only threat to Reve and Jazzy. Jazzy's fiancee's family aren't fond of her, and they hope to convince him to shift his attentions to the more suitable Reve. In the meantime, Reve is ducking Jazzy's Aunt Sally's obvious attempts to pair her off with the odious sheriff. But most sinisterly of all, someone knows the truth about Reve and Jazzy and their mother. Reve may have survived her newborn hours in a dumpster, she might even survive being linked to low-class Jazzy, but will she survive the attempts to keep ancient secrets buried? AS GOOD AS DEAD is pure escapist reading. The mystery isn't that deep and the various couplings are a foregone conclusion, but if you're in the mood kill an afternoon with a little smut and a little shiver -- this book will help you do it.
Reviewed by Linnea Dodson, December 2004
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