The Last Chance Café –
Linda Lael Miller
Reviewed by Linda and Keith Smith
Company drivers
Listening Time: 4.5 hours
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Retail: $25
Genre: Romance/mystery
Plot: At the funeral of her stepfather Lou Waitland, Hallie O’Rourke grits her teeth and swears to solve the mystery of who shot her dad in his home. She eventually finds a cashbox and evidence her dad had carefully hidden. Her ex-husband, Joel O’Rourke, an assistant district attorney, suddenly decides to try and get back together with Hallie, but she sees no future with him, even though their 7-year-old twin girls Kera and Kiley would have liked that. Joel finds out Hallie has found the cashbox, and the two get into a physical fight about it, which ends with Hallie and the children making a run for it, using her dad’s old pickup truck.
The escape is a good one, but the old heap breaks down at Primrose Creek, Nev. The local café gives her a job, and Chance Qualtrough offers his aunt’s log home for a place to stay. The people in this tiny town are all very happy to make this new family welcome. And Hallie finds herself caught up in the local lifestyle and taking care of horses for Chance’s aunt.
Chance and Hallie fall in love, and she admits her problems in solving the murder of her dad. Chance’s brother, the local sheriff, and the FBI become involved. Eventually there’s a shooting, and the bad guys try to kill Chance. When the dust settles there’s also some suspense as to whether the two lovebirds will ever get back together.
Would you recommend?: I recommend this to drivers who enjoy a romance novel.
