VALERIE PLAME WILSON, former CIA covert operative on the “Vanessa Pierson Espionage Series” books, BLOWBACK & BURNED and Sarah:
“My co-author is the wonderful and talented Sarah Lovett, successful author of the thriller series featuring Dr. Sylvia Strange. She has been a delight to work with and I feel fortunate to call her a friend.”
“My co-author is the wonderful and talented Sarah Lovett, successful author of the thriller series featuring Dr. Sylvia Strange. She has been a delight to work with and I feel fortunate to call her a friend.”
A string of unsolved deaths in research laboratories throughout the world has led the FBI to a single suspect: Dr. Christine Palmer. A beautiful, world-renowned toxicologist and leader of numerous international research teams, she is one of only a handful of scientists with highly classified knowledge of the deadliest experimental neurotoxins and their antidotes.
Amazon ebook now available
"For mystery readers who yearn for clever plot, real characters, tense suspense, and, best of all, literate writing, here comes Sarah Lovett."
--Tony Hillerman
--Tony Hillerman
"Warning: Don't start this book if you ve got plans for the next day or so. I guarantee you'll cancel them to stay home and keep reading. DANTES INFERNO has everything readers crave: a full-throttle plot, top-notch psychological suspense and as always with author Lovett gorgeous prose. And, to top it off, the book features one of my all-time favorite characters, Dr. Sylvia Strange. Welcome back, doctor. Good to see you again!"
--Jeffery Deaver, author of The Blue Nowhere and Speaking Tongues
"I was lucky enough to spend a few days with a fairly new friend. Dr. Sylvia Strange - the protagonist in Sarah Lovett's novels.
Dark Alchemy is the author's fifth episode featuring the profiler Dr. Strange. I had already read the first two and then skipped to this one, but should have just kept going in sequence to keep up with the doings of the wonderful characters in this series.
Dark Alchemy is the author's fifth episode featuring the profiler Dr. Strange. I had already read the first two and then skipped to this one, but should have just kept going in sequence to keep up with the doings of the wonderful characters in this series.
Dr. Strange and her sometimes sidekick Sweetheart (yes, that's his name) team together this time to profile a serial murderer - one who is using neurotoxins. The technical jargon is too much for me to understand but is necessary to slide one into the story. This one, like Lovett's others, is tightly written with characters that could be your next door neighbors. The suspense is almost too much and kept me up late at night to discover the culprit.
Travel with Sylvia (I can call her that now that I know her so well) from New Mexico to London and back into a world of subterfuge, death, traitors and spies. I can't think of a better way to spend my time."
-Mary Ann Smyth, Bookloons
"Acquired Motives is the second in Sarah Lovett's series about Dr. Sylvia Strange. I would suggest reading this series in sequence, though each book can also stand alone. Violent sex offenders are slipping through the cracks in the judicial system and are being horribly murdered. Retribution? Psychologist Dr. Strange seems to think so and is drawn into the schemes of the killers.
Lovett's characterizations are faultless. Believable people inhabit her books. Although many of them have deep psychological problems, they still ring true. Scary, but true. The final pages of Acquired Motives race at break neck speed to a conclusion. I think I forgot to breathe several times. I have read four Dr. Sylvia Strange books now and am sorry that there is just one to go. Order the whole series at once and settle down for some electrifying reading. You won't be sorry. Scared, maybe. But not sorry."
-Mary Ann Smyth, Bookloons
"This is another good read. Dr. Sylvia Strange, the main character, deals with the twisted and depraved minds of those incarcerated in the New Mexico State Penitentiary. On what ultimately turns out to be a bad day, she interviews Lucas Watson and so unleashes terrifying actions by Lucas and other inmates of the State Penn.
With suspenseful action that moves at a good clip, Dangerous Attachments proved hard to put down. The plot is viable and horrifyingly believable. The characters are fleshed out and move through the story as though this were real life (even Dr. Strange's dog Rocko has real doggy traits.)"
-Mary Ann Smyth, Bookloons
"Plame, the now ex-CIA agent notably exposed by the Bush II White House, mines her experience as an operative in this debut novel. She shines a bright light on illegal international arms trading to show how its tentacles reach deeply into the intelligence activities of the West’s spymasters.
Vanessa Pierson, a high-octane heroine who may remind you of Sara Paretsky’s impulsive detective V.I. Warshawski and the intense Carrie Mathison of TV’s Homeland, has an uncanny knack for reading faces to gauge how much trouble she is in. She’s on the hunt for a notorious nuclear arms dealer before he can launch a deadly attack. There’s a dangerous love interest that pushes the mercury to explosive levels and a backstory that neatly fleshes out Vanessa’s motivation and ambition.
VERDICT: Be glad that the plot closes with a strong hint that Vanessa will return in future epic hunts for criminal masterminds. Between them, coauthors Lovett, the creator of forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange and five suspense novels (e.g., Dark Alchemy) and Plame, have delivered a tightly wound, vigorously deployed thriller echoing the real-life stories of CIA agents and their enemies."—Barbara Conaty, Falls Church, VA
Vanessa Pierson, a high-octane heroine who may remind you of Sara Paretsky’s impulsive detective V.I. Warshawski and the intense Carrie Mathison of TV’s Homeland, has an uncanny knack for reading faces to gauge how much trouble she is in. She’s on the hunt for a notorious nuclear arms dealer before he can launch a deadly attack. There’s a dangerous love interest that pushes the mercury to explosive levels and a backstory that neatly fleshes out Vanessa’s motivation and ambition.
VERDICT: Be glad that the plot closes with a strong hint that Vanessa will return in future epic hunts for criminal masterminds. Between them, coauthors Lovett, the creator of forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange and five suspense novels (e.g., Dark Alchemy) and Plame, have delivered a tightly wound, vigorously deployed thriller echoing the real-life stories of CIA agents and their enemies."—Barbara Conaty, Falls Church, VA
"What a team! Valerie Plame, a former CIA covert spy, paired with Sara Lovett, one of the most talented suspense novelists at work today. In this the second of the Vanessa Pierson series, the ex-spy and writer begin with an explosive--literally and figuratively speaking--scene at the Paris Louvre that leaves the reader breathless. Don't expect to recover your breath soon. Pierson, the brash and clever CIA covert ops officer, dashes off to Amsterdam to Venice and to Istanbul in pursuit of a mastermind intent on creating ever greater threats to world peace." -Amazon review