Matthew Bates and Laurel Armand work on the New Orleans Herald together. He's on the police beat and Laurel writes politics. The two sit across from each other and Matt enjoys antagonizing Laurel when he can. Even if they are at her family's house for dinner (since he is a good friend of her brother's). She isn't interested (or tells herself she isn't) but the two get pulled into the story of Anne Trulane, a woman who supposedly died of a copperhead bite but her sister is trying to get anyone to believe her that it couldn't be true.
This is very much a book of its time with a virginal heroine who succumbs to the unceasing attention of the alpha male who wants her. Early glimpses of a woman who is good at her profession and the competence porn that Roberts will give us with many of her later characters.
Three stars
This book came out in May 1985
Borrowed as ebook from Libby
Opinions are my own
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