Finally Fallon Jones falls in love! Fallon leads the secretive paranormal detective agency J&J, which author Krentz features in novel after novel, portraying Fallon as almost a mad scientist in his zeal and personality. Now with In Too Deep it’s Fallon’s turn to be the star and protagonist.

Isabella Valdez flees for her life to Scargill Cove, eventually finding work as office assistant for Fallon in J&J. He desperately needs an assistant and Isabella is perfect. Fallon can spot patterns and pull together disparate facts to form a coherent story – or a conspiracy theory – and Isabella is completely at home with conspiracy theories because her grandmother runs the premiere weird story conspiracy website.

What neither Fallon nor Isabella knows is that a secret group stashed several of Mrs. Bridewell’s infernal gadgets, ordinary-looking clockwork machines that can kill with paranormal energy, in caves near Scargill Cove and the townspeople have dedicated themselves to protecting that secret. Now someone has reactivated some of these dangerous things at the same time as Isabella’s former employer is hunting for the employee who used his company as a screen to deal weapons. The two plots collide and Fallon and Isabella must work with their town to save each other.

I like Fallon. He’s not exactly warm and cuddly but he’s smart, resourceful and dedicated. And he’s warm and caring for those he knows and willing to do whatever he must to protect those.

Isabella has an extremely powerful talent; she is able to tell people is touching to do things – and they do. This is a mighty handy talent and a bit too convenient a plot device a few times in the story. Isabella is less believable and less likable than Fallon; which is unusual for Krentz. Usually I like her female leads more than the men.

Like all Jayne Krentz/Jayne Castle novels the plot moves at a frantic pace all while the two leads fall in love. There are some sex scenes, almost no vulgarity and no blasphemy.

4 Stars

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