Without Warning
Author: Eugenia West
Emma Streat is rebuilding her shattered life in Boston when she receives an SOS from Venice. She must come at once to intervene in a disastrous affair between her opera singer niece, Vanessa, and a notorious playboy. But the night Emma and Vanessa return home, Vanessa is struck down by what appears to be the first case of avian flu in the United States.
Suddenly Emma is forced to cope with the medical world. As the case assumes a larger, international aspect, she finds herself working again with a charismatic British peer. Will their unusual relationship survive Emma’s new interest in a brilliant doctor?
After two shocking murders, Emma has to rev up her now-established talent for making unlikely connections, in order to smoke out a lethal global network that sells stolen viruses — and save herself from a painful and horrifying death.
Eugenia Lovett West’s sequel to Without Warning is a fast-moving, thrilling ride, featuring a resourceful, mature woman, a unique character in crime fiction today.
Thomas Dunne Books 2007
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Reviews
Publishers Weekly:
This engaging start of a new series introduces former opera star and blueblood Emma Streat. West spins a plausible tale, and flawed, grieving Emma makes an appealing heroine.
The Oklahoman:
This gripping story is outstanding in every aspect of an intriguing mystery -- plot, suspense, characterization and thrilling finale -- a very good one.
Richmond Times Dispatch:
Mysteries about strong women are nothing new, but Eugenia Lovett West provides a page turner of a twist in her first mystery, "Without Warning."
West tells her story with style, with wit (Emma's godmother's voice "sounded like a tuba filled with gravel") and with panache worthy of Ian Fleming.
Kingston Observer:
This is a smashing, sophisticated, confident series debut featuring the elegant Emma Streat, former opera star, now a housewife living quite grandly in Connecticut. If you enjoy the work of Nancy Geary, who writes mysteries about the troubled wealthy, you'll certainly enjoy Eugenia West.
Lyme Times:
Simply engaging from start to finish. Clearly a series on its way.