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Carnal Innocence
Carnal Innocence
Author: Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts, bestselling author of The Reef and Genuine Lies, mixes scorching passion with icy suspense in her classic novel of murder and infatuation in a southern town--now available in hardcover for the first time. — In the small town of Innocence, Mississippi, days are long, nights are fragrant, and secrets are hard to keep. Bu...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780553110944
ISBN-10: 0553110942
Publication Date: 7/6/1999
Pages: 400
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 112 ratings
Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 4
This book is in my top 10 best books I have ever read. I am not a big Nora Roberts fan I'm sorry to say and I have been upset that I have not liked any of her other books as much as I have loved this one. I want to buy this in hard cover one day so I always have it. I read it at least once a year! Tucker is always waiting for me. lol
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Helpful Score: 3
I thought I knew "who done it" several different times throughout the novel but then had to change my mind. Even though it's an older book of Nora Roberts, it's still a great read.
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Helpful Score: 3
Loved this book! Nora gets the atmosphere in a small southern town exactly right - and of course, the imagery is perfect, as always. I swear, the humidity rose off the page to frizz my hair! (OK, that could've also been because I didn't use any conditioner...) You have a murderer (what else?) on the loose, a concert violinist who settles into her grandmother's old house - partly to get away from her control freak mother; and a son of the local owns-half-the-town, been-there-forever family who is not only supremely hot, but also the number-one suspect (according to the FBI agent brought in from out of town to help solve the murders - and who also just happens to have the hots for our lovely violinist). Of course, it's all wrapped up in a great love story, with a twist at the end. Fabulous!
bigshirl55 avatar reviewed Carnal Innocence on + 197 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I love Nora Roberts books. Carnal Innocence has a richer story than some of her other romances. An excellent read.
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Helpful Score: 1
Great story. Love story with a murder subplot... or is it the other way around? You get to decide. Well written. Well plotted. Enjoy. I know I did.
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goldenyes320 avatar reviewed Carnal Innocence on + 16 more book reviews
This book will keep you guessing until the end!
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Another great plot and story!
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5 stars
I enjoyed the dialogue with Tucker and Caroline, and the suspense of finding out who was the killer was good. Nora Roberts always has such good dialogue.
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First Nora Roberts book I read. Really got me hooked, and not just because I lived in Mississippi!
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Another great Nora Roberts book. A little much on the sex stuff, but otherwise a great read.
jenel avatar reviewed Carnal Innocence on + 60 more book reviews
I truly do enjoy Nora Roberts books, however this one is more like her JD Robb releases.
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great murder mystery
Readnmachine avatar reviewed Carnal Innocence on + 1439 more book reviews
Surprise! Nora Roberts can write! This early-90s offering soft-pedals the romance and concentrates on thriller elements as women in a small Southern town start turning up dead. I had a suspicion as to who the real killer was -- obviously not the hunky hero -- but Roberts peoples the story with enough engaging characters to keep the pages turning. My only gripe is that the minor characters were hard to keep straight -- Earleen and Myrleen and Darleen, and Bobby T and Billy Lee give us a break, Nora!
barbsis avatar reviewed Carnal Innocence on + 1076 more book reviews
This is a little darker than most Nora Roberts books. It's supposed to be romantic suspense and I guess it is but boy was it brutal.

A serial killer is running rampant in Innocence, Mississippi. Killing young women who have been intimate with Tucker Longstreet, who is a bit of a ladies man...well maybe more than a bit. When Caroline Waverly moves to town, Tucker is smitten, which is nothing new for him. However, Caroline is just getting over a breakup and doesn't want to even think about men. The book focuses more on the doings of the townspeople than on Caroline and Tucker but he romances her in a kind of courtly way. There's some flame between them but he basically just wears Caroline down with his persistence.

The mystery is interesting and there are many possible suspects so you're kept guessing. Burns, the FBI guy, is a real prick to Tucker and his family and hasn't a clue who the culprit really is.

I liked this book but it wasn't what I was expecting so the brutal nature of the killings came as a surprise.


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