I have been a huge fan of Louise Bagshawe for many years, and she is one of the first authors to start my love affair with contemporary chick lit. Her books are always very easy to get into and hard to put down with larger than life characters and a bit of raunchiness thrown in for good measure. I had been longingly looking at Desire in the supermarket debating whether to break my no book buying pledge when my wonderful best mate presented me with a copy, saying it is the only book she has managed to finish in ages!! The main character of Desire is British born Lisa Costello, who on the morning after her lavish Thai wedding to movie producer Josh Steen finds ...  Read the complete review

I have been a fan of Louise Bagshawe for a while, she usually provides the perfect beach read. However, I haven't quite enjoyed her past couple as much as some of her older ones, but I found this for £1 in my local charity shop, so thought I might as well give it a go. This story centres around Lisa Costello, an 'ordinary' Brit who wakes up the morning after her expensive, glamourous wedding to a man she doesn't love, in Thailand, to find her hotshot Hollywood producer husband Josh, lying dead in the bed next to her. She is covered in blood and holding a dagger. With no memory of the night before, Lisa goes on the run. Is she the killer? Was she ...  Read the complete review

Lisa Costello is leading a charmed life - until she wakes up the morning after her glamorous Thailand wedding to find her new husband Josh dead in their bed, the murder weapon in her hand. She remembers learning at the wedding that Josh had been unfaithful, but she certainly doesn't remember killing him. As Lisa flees the scene for Europe, ex-FBI trainee Sam Murray is on her trail. Catching up with her, he's quickly convinced she's been set up, and they start to work out which of movie producer Josh's many enemies could be behind the hit. It's a race against time to unearth the truth and keep Lisa out of jail - or gunned down by the professional assassin tailing them. ...  Read the complete review

Lisa Costello is a gold-digger as far as the rest of the world is concerned. So when her new producer husband, Josh, is murdered in their bed and she wakes to find the murder weapon lodged firmly in her hand, it's obvious what happened. Right? Terrified about the consequences, Lisa heads off on the run. Hot on her heels is journalist Sam, who's after the scoop of his career. As she flits from country to country in a desperate bid to escape from both the law and the hitman who was hired to kill Josh and is now in deadly pursuit of her, Lisa realises that she's been set up. Far from clearing her name, the main priority is to stay alive... Having just read ...  Read the complete review

This is a review of the 2010 book 'Desire' by Louise Bagshawe. I picked it up from readitswapit website and liked the sound of a murder mistery combined with a romantic storyline. The book follows Lisa Costello, a normal everyday girl who has stumbled into the lives of the rich and famous, becoming the wife of famous movie mogul Josh Steen in Hollywood. Little does she know that he is not the perfect husband and in addition to that she is being lined up as first culprit for his untimely murder. All this is covered in the first ten pages so I'm not giving anything away here! A wedding The first chapter begins at the wedding of Lisa and Josh in ...  Read the complete review