She Can Scream

She Can Scream is one of Melinda Leigh’s romantic suspense novels in her She Can series, the foundational franchise that established her career in the genre. The series follows a connected cast of investigators, mostly former military or law enforcement, working private security and consulting cases in the upstate New York and Pennsylvania region.

Each book in the She Can series focuses on one couple while the wider cast moves in and out of the action. She Can Scream develops the standard Melinda Leigh romantic suspense structure, with a new investigator from the wider cast taking the spotlight, a new case starting in the opening pages, and a new romance developing alongside the suspense plot.

Melinda Leigh’s strength as a romantic suspense writer is the consistent quality of her plotting. Her female leads are usually capable women in difficult situations rather than damsels in distress. For readers who enjoy Karen Rose, Allison Brennan, or the romantic suspense end of Catherine Coulter’s catalogue, Leigh is squarely in the same neighborhood. She Can Scream is a comfortable entry into the She Can series.