Arousing Suspicions Book

I wasn't too impressed with Stillings' earlier work, Damsel In Distress - my first book by the author but bought Arousing Suspicions after reading a few good reviews on it.

I'm still shaking my head wondering how this book got such good ratings and amazed that in this day and age of the romantic suspense genre, authors are still giving us TSTL heroines and heroes who fall for them. Even harder for me to believe there were readers who thought the heroine was smart!

Why on earth would an author let her heroine insist on going out to meet the serial killer alone? Isn't that illegal in the RS genre these days? LOL.

Tabitha knew he was the prime suspect, she knew the cop-hero was waiting for the opportunity to get in touch with the elusive suspect, she's terrified coz she's psychic and 'saw' these murders and still, she agrees to meet the guy alone without clearing it with her cop-hero. Of course things go belly-up and Nate is injured in the fiasco. Whether the suspect turns out to be the killer or not is beside the point. The heroine is so dumb and downright ditzy, I could not but roll my eyes every time she whined about not being taken seriously. Oh puhleeze...

Maybe ten years ago or even less, I'd be more forgiving but I'm not so generous in my old age and couldn't buy into Nate's attraction for the TSTL Tabitha. What does it say for a man who could fall for a nitwit like Tabby (that's what he calls her) It's bad enough I hate the heroine but it's worse for the hero when I can't respect him.