RS Review: Sleepwalker [Hardcover]

I've finished "Sleepwalker" by Karen Robards.

Product Description

It’s not that Micayla Lange is afraid of the clinking she hears coming from the first floor of the empty McMansion she’s housesitting for her uncle Nicco. She’s a cop, after all. It’s just that finding out her boyfriend was cheating on her was enough drama for one night. Now she’s alone on New Year’s Eve, wearing flannel pajamas and wielding a Glock 22 as she zeroes in on the unmistakable source of the sound: Uncle Nicco’s private office. Jason Davis steals things for a living, so unexpected developments are a natural part of the job. Getting caught red-handed by a hot, pigtail-sporting police officer in what is supposed to be a gangster’s deserted house is just one more twist in the game. Kind of like finding incriminating photos in Nicco Marino’s safe, only to discover the cop — and the security cameras — have gotten a real good look at his face. Unfortunately for Mick, she also got a good look at the damned pictures. Her “uncle” might love her like family, but if he knows she’s seen evidence that implicates him in the murder of a city councilman, she doesn’t like her chances. Which is why she’s having a hard time reconciling her professional instincts with what she is rapidly concluding is an inescapable fact: She’s about to help a criminal get away with a suitcase full of stolen money. And she’s going with him. Mick and Jason’s race for their lives hurtles them through the dangerous Michigan wilderness on speedboat and snowmobile. As their adventure heats up and their enemies close in, Mick is torn between her duty to the force and the combustible passion engulfing her and her unlikely partner in crime. She’ll have to turn Jason in sooner or later . if they survive. But will they ever get a second chance at love?

About the Author Karen Robards is the author of thirty-four novels and one novella. A regular on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists, among others, she is the mother of three boys, ages 12, 17, and 23, and lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Product Details
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Gallery Books (December 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1439183724
ISBN-13: 978-1439183724

My Review:

Micayla Lange affectionally known as Mick witnessed the brutal murder of her mother right in front of her eyes when she was a kid.  She has overcome her tragedy and has a law enforcement career as a police officer for the Detroit Police Department.

She has found out her homicide investigator boyfriend Nick Nick Horacki has been cheating on her.  As a result she has come to her best friend's father Uncle Nikko Martino house a day earlier to house sit.

When she wakes up from a sleepwalking nightmare which she relives the death of her mother she interrupts a couple of burglars in the middle of robbing Uncle Nikko's safe.  She doesn't hesitate to jump into action and gets in a fight with one buglar (she gets the upper hand) but the other points a gun at her and tells her stop.  Jason Davis knew that when he picked robbing criminals he knew their would be risks but he didn't expect to find a Hot Officer.  During their struggle some pictures fall to the ground which incriminate her Uncle Nicco of killing Edward Lightfoot and his family.

Then Uncle Nicco's security team arrives and suddenly Micayla becomes his accomplice and wants to help him which surprises both of them.  Now both of them are on the run for their lives.

This book I found kind of slow at the beginning but become fast paced once Micayla and Jason were on the run from Uncle Nicco's henchmen.  The sexual tension between Micayla and Jason was really hot but forbidden.  It has twists and turns with a red herring near the end.

3/5

Thanks Simon and Schuster Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!