Excellent writter. ( )

There was a shallow quality to many of the characters that didn't allow me believe either their fear or bravery. I kept hoping for more depth and never really found it. ( )

Abby Chandlis had written and published three novels and they all died on the shelf. No publisher would touch her. Her latest novel was well worth touching... so she created a pen name and hired a male hunk to play the part of the lawyer. This story is a good tale but is a great look at the world of publishing. ( )

good mystery

Gable Cooper has penned a novel to kill for. Six million dollars in book and film rights are looming just off the table for this unknown author. But there is a problem: Gable Cooper doesn't exist. Abby Chandlis is an attorney turned novelist and the creator of Gable Cooper. Abby has an intriguing plan to keep her writing career alive: find a charismatic male face to pose as the phantom author for the knock-dead thriller she has written. Jack Jermaine is a man with dangerous good looks and a shadowy past. Trained by the military to kill, his obsession is to pen a blockbuster book. He has a trunk filled with rejected manuscripts and a gnawing problem that has turned him bitter: Jack can't write.

A far cry from his other books -- written from a female attorney's perspective (and one who doesn't like the law much either). Martini did a fine job of writing a woman's perspective. He almost had me, but I figured it out. Quite entertaining, as usual. ( )