Stolen Heart

By Mary Burchell

Book Overview

Stolen Heart by Mary Burchell released on Jul 25, 1979 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373006861
• ISBN13: 9780373006861
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Harlequin
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

She Broke into the Wrong Flat

Joanna Deane's half-sister Auriel has a way about her. She gets everything she wants, because she can talk anybody into anything. But she's not perfect. She is engaged to nice young Gerald, but a year ago she made arrangements to spend the weekend with the awful cad Simon Ginley. She claims to Joanna that she didn't go, but she wrote about the plans in a letter to Simon and now Simon says he is going to use the letter to destroy Auriel's engagement. According to Auriel, Simon says if he can't have her, nobody can. Then Auriel takes Joanna's hand and convinces her to break into Simon's flat and steal the letter. And it just so happens Simon is out of town, so she has to go over there and do it right now.And Joanna goes. However apparently she is mathematically challenged, because she breaks into a strangers third floor apartment instead of Simon's forth floor abode. And she gets caught by a good looking guy named Neil. She tries to make an excuse, Neil doesn't buy it, then she tells him about the letter. Neil says perhaps he should call the police and than a Bobby shows up at the door with the news that the man upstairs, a certain Simon Ginley, had been found murdered, with a knife in his back.During questioning Neil tells the police Joanna is his fiancée to draw suspicion away from her and now you have the beginning of a romance that I really liked. Also we have a bit of a mystery here as well and that was a nice touch to this romance. However, I must say the burglary device the Ms. Burchell used to get Joanna and Neil together was pretty unbelievable, but then this book was originally written over half a century ago and it appears they took more liberties back in 1952. Still, it's a very good read and if you come across this one in a used bookstore somewhere, I recommend buying it.A Harlequin Dreamers Review by Gracie Houston