Pretty Maids in a Row Marilyn Campbell

Pretty Maids in a Row

Author: Marilyn Campbell

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Publication Date: 08 March, 1994

ISBN: 9780679427735

Pages: 304

Subjects: Suspense, Psychological

Available as: , Trade Cloth, 978-0-517-15606-3 Trade Cloth, 978-0-679-42773-5 E-Book - EPUB, 978-1-61417-149-2 E-Book - Kindle, 978-1-61417-150-8

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"Here now is the hardcover debut of a major new suspense talent. Pretty Maids in a Row is the perfect showcase for Marilyn Campbell's special mix of steamy romance and electrifying thrills, a mix that will keep readers guessing from the first sentence to the very last." "Holly Kaufman's safe little world is falling apart. A longtime romantic relationship is on the rocks. She's falling in love with an entirely inappropriate, entirely irresistible man. And a recent encounter with a former college acquaintance is forcing her to remember her own tormented past and the violent abuse she's kept secret." "Thirteen years ago five innocent, bright young coeds were brutally taken advantage of by a fraternity with a taste for rape. The women, too ashamed to demand any official retribution, formed instead an ultrasecret support group called the Little Sister Society. Over a decade later the group is still meeting, only now revenge is the first item on their agenda and the results have been most satisfactory." "Pretty Holly Kaufman, a powerful environmental lobbyist, was also raped by the fraternity brothers, so when she's asked to join the Little Sister Society, she hesitates only briefly. But when the former frat boys start turning up dead and minus a certain significant organ, Holly wants out. Unfortunately, she's become a primary suspect and her only hope lies with a man she has grown to love passionately, yet knows she cannot trust."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 1994-02-07

A headline-grabbing plot that draws from the Anita Hill situation, the Spur Posse in Lakewood, Calif., and the case of Lorena Bobbit is the basis of this soap opera masquerading as psychological suspense novel. ``Little Sister'' was a jeering sobriquet applied by 15 Dominion University frat brothers to the sometimes willing--and oft-times raped--coeds they dogged for sex, then tallied on their ``dance cards.'' Now, 14 years after she was victimized, environmental lobbyist Holly Kaufman finds that one of her assaulters, Tim Ziegler, now a senator, has been nominated for a cabinet post. His role in the vicious game is raked up, then swiftly buried. Disgusted, Holly joins the Little Sister Society, a group dedicated to nonviolent retribution. Her fellow members are a quartet of one-note characters: Bobbi, a mousy IRS employee with a movie-of-the-week-style split personality; calculating businesswoman Erica, who has buried several husbands; Rachel, a man-hating, lesbian FBI agent; and April, a psychologist. Clearly, someone has become unhinged: first Ziegler, then other ex-frat boys, are killed in a vengeful, bloody fashion. Campbell, the author of Pyramid of Dreams and other paperback novels, tries to inject excitement with a sizzling romance between sex-shy Holly and a womanizing, arrogant reporter trailing the group, but she can't get beyond the formulaic argue-assault-apologize school of attraction. The final scene, in which the killer is unmasked, is ludicrously flat. Literary Guild selection. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved