I'm in a bookclub with friends from the day job.  We met the other week and selected Tami Hoag's Alibi Man as the next book to read.  (We run the gamut in our selections from memoirs to autobiographies to thrillers to romance to classics.)

I'm two thirds of the way and loving this murder/thriller.  I've been a fan of Tami Hoag's for years.  Oddly enough, I didn't read her back when she wrote category romance for Bantam Loveswept.  I was introduced to her work when she spoke at a NJ Romance Writers conference, about the time that Night Sins broke out.  I then picked up her backlist of sexy, dark, psychological thrillers.

Alibi Man is loaded with intrigue and complex characters, beginning with the female protagonist Elena Estes.  Former detective with more baggage than a 747, Elena is tough, almost hardened by past circumstances, but with enough emotional vulnerability and commitment to make us care.  She's recently broken off with (shoved away) Landry, the detective she was involved with, but circumstances keep them in each other's orbit.

Circumstances like the dead groom Elena worked with at the stable of her friend Sean.  Irina, a beautiful Russian party-girl who reveled in the society set of Palm Beach polo parties with wealthy men, and who also had connections to a vicious Russian mobster who is devastated by her murder.

The most likely suspects are a group of very successful, wealthy men including a polo team owner, some ex-pro athletes, a devastatingly attractive top polo player, and Elena's ex-fiance -- a man who beat and raped a young woman many years prior and then asked Elena to provide his alibi. 

So many suspects, not enough evidence, plenty of danger. . . I'm hooked on this book -- even though I can't decide who's the murderer.

Alibi Man by Tami Hoag -- I give it two very enthusiastic thumbs up!