Okay, I've Read Cop on Loan

And also reviewed it on Amazon.com

This is a nice light mystery-romance and it would fit well on film or television, with the right actors, of course. As usual, Jeannie has just the right dialogue, and in Cop on Loan, she spiced up the story with a couple of pets with original names. I liked Ghengis Khat who belonged to Jasmine, the main female character. Originality at play here, and in her selection of a moniker to describe the Great Dane belonging to Tony, the male lead, she crafted Muttzilla.

In her choice of characters, Jeannie used the “opposites attract” equation. Jasmine Storm is an attractive librarian in small town in Washington state. Tony DeMonte is a jaded big-city cop from Seattle on loan to the local police department. Jasmine is the nice, neat personification of the stereotypical Miriam the Librarian whereas Tony is a scruffy Italian guy with curly black hair.

The two protagonists meet in a back alley behind the library as Jasmine and her boss sit in a car at night in an attempt to find out who has been breaking into the library. Tony and his partner are in the same alley on a stake-out to nab some drug dealers. The detectives mistake Jasmine and her boss for the dealers and confront them with guns drawn. The two are off to a rocky start.

Things don’t improve much when we learn that Jasmine has her own mystery to contend with. Someone has been entering her home for mysterious reasons and in the process, somehow letting out Genghis Khat. Jasmine becomes frightened and speaks to Tony about it. He’s your classic disbelieving cop, however, and doubts her story. But since he is about to be ejected from his own lodgings, he sees an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, rent Jasmine’s basement and alleviate her fears over her mysterious visitor.

Okay, no more from me. You’ll need to buy the book and read it for the unexpected resolution of both mysteries. You’ll be surprised at Jeannie’s original ending, not only her revelation of the identity(ies) of the culprit(s), but perhaps of more importance to readers of romances, the equally novel surprise ending to Jasmine’s and Tony’s love story.