Thank you Galley match and Grand Central Pub for providing The Page Ladies with this fantastic book! The Blind Tiger created a lively discussion about what it would have been to live as a woman back then and if we would be willing to take the same route that Laurel did. I absolutely loved this book!

I read this book with my book club The Page Ladies, it was a hit with us! There are a lot of events that happen that are wonderful talking points! This was definitely different from the other books I have read from Sandra Brown but I was not disappointed!

Thank you Galley Match and Grand Central Pub for sharing the Blind Tiger with The Page Ladies. We enjoyed our trip to the 1920s!
MURDER
LUST
MOONSHINE
GREED
ROMANCE
AND SO MUCH MORE!
This book takes place in Texas during the 1920s when prohibition was just starting. The prohibition “noble experiment” was first set to reduce crime and corruption, health and believe it or not to improve hygiene in America. In the end, it created the moonshine wars and the craziness that comes with greed.
Laurel Plummer, her husband and their infant daughter have moved in with Irv, her father-in-law. They aren’t there long before a devastating event leaves Laurel alone in a new town and having to support herself and her baby. When she finds out Irv is making moonshine, she helps him expand. But as they grow their business, so do their enemies.
Thatcher Hutton is a former cowboy returning home from the war. But when he is on the train home trouble brews with the other riders, so to avoid trouble he jumps from the train and finds himself in Foley, Texas. He meets Laurel on his way into town and is instantly taken with her! But when he goes to town, things go horribly wrong! I bet he wishes he would have just stayed on the train!
Historical fiction, as we all know, is not something you think about when you hear the name Sandra Brown but you will not be disappointed! I couldn't put it down! The character development was wonderful! Add that with Brown’s specialty with romance, suspense and the research she did to create this story and you have a powerful read! Happy reading everyone!

Thank you to Netgalley and Grand Central Publishing for the ARC.

🌟🌟🌟🌟 4/5 stars

Blind Tiger is unlike any Sandra Brown book I’ve read before. A mixture of historical fiction, romance, and suspense, it is a sprawling tale of a young widow and a soldier caught up in a moonshine war.

Laurel Plummer is grieving over a huge tragedy when she meets the mysterious Thatcher Hutton. Thatcher jumped from a freight train to avoid an attack and happens upon the small Texas town. When he meets Laurel, he is immediately intrigued. However, once Laurel and Thatcher end up on opposite sides of a war and a killer is on the loose, both are put in danger (but find the time to fall in love).

I loved how different this was from the usual romantic suspense. Brown clearly did her research and brought to life the time of underground moonshining and speakeasies. It takes a bit in the beginning to flesh out the world and develop the characters, but I thoroughly enjoyed this tale of romance and mystery. I am hoping to someday revisit these characters!

ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to review Blind Tiger! This is my first Sandra Brown but I have long wanted to read something by her. As a historical fiction fan, this touched the right chords.
Texas after WWI - soldiers are returning to their past lives, but they are changed. Prohibition is the law of the land, but without whiskey, many turn to bootlegging to make due in a town with no oil pumping. Thatcher finds himself between two worlds - wanting to be home but falling in love with widow Laurel. Laurel's dead husband fought his own demons and turns to her father in law for support, until she realizes there is a niche to fill. Both are caught between what's right and wrong in this suspenseful historical mystery.

This was really enjoyable and a page turner. The characters and place came to life and stayed vivid throughout. There was a lot going on in this book. It doesn't take long to figure out who was behind the murders, but the fun of the book was watching how the other characters come around to solving all of the mysteries. A great read, if but a little long.
A solid 4 stars

This is a delightful new book from Sandra Brown and a big change for her. Unsurprisingly, Blind Tiger is set in her home state of Texas but in this novel the time frame is 1920. Women have achieved suffrage via the 19th Amendment and the Volstead Act has been passed by Congress giving teeth to the 18th Amendment making prohibition the law of the land.

I loved the way she set the reader right down in that time frame, in that dust bowl, in that lawless society to create her story. What a fun story it was with bootleggers, undercover lawmen, thieves, tin lizzies, horses, cowboys and the advent of the oil industry taking over pasture lands.

Thinking back over the story, I couldn’t help but think that it was perfect for the Vaudeville stage! Heroes, villains, brothels, damsels in distress – it had all the elements of a wonderful Vaudeville play.

This was great fun with well defined characters (mostly with hidden attributes – good and bad!) and a time frame that moved forward nicely.

I received this ARC from NetGalley and the publisher, Grand Central Publishing, in exchange for an honest review. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting a light, fun read for a few hours. Well written.

Just back from the Great War and riding the rails back to the Texas ranch he worked before being drafted, Thatcher Hutton jumps from the rail car and finds himself still quite a ways from home. Walking toward town, he meets Laurel Plummer hanging out her wash, and asks for some water and if there might be a room to rent nearby. Little does he know that random coincidence will make him a suspect in the disappearance of the local doctor’s wife. And things just go downhill from there. There’s lots of secrets in this small town and moonshiners who won’t stop until they eliminate their competition.

As a longtime Sandra Brown reader, I was a little surprised by this story. Set in 1920, it’s very different from her usual romantic suspense, but still packs the punch of her usual interesting characters and lots of action. I’m seriously hoping for a sequel.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Blind Tiger is a classic Sandra Brown romantic suspense story and if you are a fan of this author or that genre at all, you will definitely want to pick it up.

The Great War is over but almost two years after armistice, Thatcher Hutton is still finding his way home. Lack of money and no job means he’s been playing cards to get cash for meals and hitching rides on freight trains to reach the ranch where he worked as a cowboy before he was drafted. His most recent stint of riding the rails finds him in a freight car full of angry men planning to attack the moment he falls asleep, so he escapes the only way he can – by jumping from the rapidly moving locomotive. He gets away relatively unscathed, but he wasn’t able to choose his location and finds himself stuck in the middle of nowhere Texas, walking miles just to reach a domicile. It’s not much, just a lean-to with an outhouse a few feet away but he figures the people there can help. He stops to ask for a drink and directions to the nearest town. The woman hanging the washing on the line is cool and anxious to have him gone but she points him toward a nearby small burg, lets him drink from their bucket of fresh water – and gives him a memory to carry on the road. He can’t recall ever seeing a sight as pretty as that lovely lady struggling to hang waterlogged sheets on a windy day.

Laurel Palmer is still shell-shocked from all the tragedy that has befallen her in the months since the war ended. Her father-in-law Irv has taken her in but as an invalided former railroad worker, he doesn’t have much in savings and the two of them can barely make ends meet. They’re living in a shack miles away from town and the stranger arriving at their door looking for aid reminds Laurel of just how vulnerable they are. He was handsome and polite, but strong and quick. Irv had been nervous enough to grab his shotgun and Laurel had been nervous enough to realize she needed to start bringing in some money so she and Irv can move closer to town.

The tiny town of Foley doesn’t have much in the way of industry, but there is a livery stable, and Thatcher demonstrates sufficient skills with the horses that the owner agrees to give him a job for a few weeks. That should enable him to earn enough to buy a train ticket home. With the employment question settled, Thatcher needs to locate a place to live and responds to a sign in the grocer’s window offering a room to rent. When he arrives at the address given, the beautiful pregnant lady at the well-kept, spacious house advises him the sign should have been taken down, since the room being offered is now a nursery. She gives him shortbread to sweeten the sting of rejection and sends him to a far more dour facility on the less affluent side of town. Thatcher doesn’t know it, but the brief encounter is about to change his whole life because that gentle gal goes missing that night.

Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of abducting and killing her. At least he is by the nosy neighbor who saw him at the house and the overly interested mayor who responds to said neighbor’s interference by pressuring the sheriff to arrest Thatcher. Fortunately, Sheriff Bill Amos is a smart man and quickly figures out Thatcher wasn’t involved. Bill just as quickly realizes that Thatcher is handy with a gun, quick on his feet and even faster at spotting a lie. Which makes Thatcher the perfect choice to help him discover who did take the missing lady.

Just as Thatcher is getting on the right side of the local law, Laurel, driven to desperation by her need for funds, finds herself on the wrong side of the new prohibition regulations. There aren’t many jobs available and certainly nothing that pays very well in a place as small as Foley. She’s got a good head for business, though, and Irv’s friend Ernie has a moonshine whiskey recipe that tastes better than anything available from a distillery. It’s not long before Laurel, Irv and Ernie are running a thriving – if illegal -business of their own. Unbeknownst to them, however, they’ve started their little production just as a local man has begun machinations to take over the entire territory. He’s a cutthroat competitor whose business plan is to brutally eliminate the competition. As the book’s description says, when

violence erupts, Laurel and—now deputy—Thatcher find themselves on opposite sides of a moonshine war, where blood flows as freely as the bootleg.

Word of warning – this book contains a fair amount of carnage and includes scenes of women being ferociously physically and sexually assaulted. I didn’t feel any of it was gratuitous; it seemed a realistic depiction of the vicious criminality that resulted from Prohibition.

Laurel is the sassy, savvy heroine this author loves to write. She’s very much someone who lives up to the adage that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.

The same is true of Thatcher. He is the quintessential Brown hero – taciturn, tough, intelligent, driven, and skilled. Like most of the author’s heroes, though, he can at times be overbearing. Laurel spends a lot of the early portions of the book telling Thatcher to leave her be and having him constantly come around anyway. The text makes clear she is only trying to protect her battered heart and actually feels a strong fascination/infatuation with him, but I wish the author had written the dynamic a bit differently. While the two characters have sizzling chemistry, a lot of their back and forth depicts Thatcher as someone who can’t take no for an answer and Laurel as someone who doesn’t know her own mind. Which couldn’t be further from the characters of these tenacious, irrepressible people.

The secondary protagonists are also strong, resilient people. Corrine, Sheriff Bill, Ernie and Irv are also wonderful, warm, caring folks who haven’t let the difficulties life has thrown at them turn them bitter. I especially liked the cantankerous Irv, whose crusty exterior hides a heart of pure gold.

The action is fast paced and the suspense portion of the tale is absolutely intriguing. I loved how the author uses the history of the era to show us the way poverty, war, and prohibition laws drove otherwise law-abiding citizens into crime and how that crime in turn created monsters out of some of them. I also liked the domino nature of the corruption – a small law broken here and there, doing things which were legal just a few short years ago snowball into complete corruption when coupled with greed.

Everything that has made Sandra Brown a best-selling author is out in full force in Blind Tiger, and her regular cadre of readers will be delighted by this latest offering. People unfamiliar with her work who enjoy romantic suspense novels should also give this tale a try – you won’t be disappointed.

Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown is a romantic mystery set in 1920, Texas. Thatcher Hutton has returned from WWI and is working his way back to the ranch were he grew up and worked as a cowboy all his life. On his way he travels through Foley, Texas. On the day of his arrival a local women goes missing, and Hutton finds himself in the middle of a conflict that involves bootleggers, corrupt officials, madam's and generally shady characters.
Lauren Plummer is also finding herself in Foley, after the loss of her husband and infant daughter. She and her father-in-law is trying to move get by, and navigate the general lawlessness caused by the prohibition laws.

The story is fast paced, the setting was interesting, but I could have done without the romance between Thatcher Hutton and Lauren Plummer. It felt forced and quite the cliche.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

Sandra Brown turns to historical fiction in this tale of bootleggers during Prohibition.

When Laurel’s husband, a haunted Vet, commits suicide, she and her baby Pearl move in with her father-in-law Irv.

Finding out that Irv is a moonshiner is shocking, but Laurel soon realizes that she can best help her family by creating new ways of distributing the booze. What she doesn’t expect is the hell that’s about to rain down on her.

Thatcher Hutton is a mysterious stranger to town. Is he a murderer, as rumors claim? Or is he a government agent, hunting down bootleggers like Irv and Laurel? Sandra Brown has created a world both vivid and fresh, and characters you’ll root for. Recommended.

I have to admit I was very hesitant to start this book - I'm a bit bored with reading historical novels, but at least this one wasn't about war. Well, not war per se. Set in the 20's we follow a young woman who learns how to make 'shine, sell 'shine and support herself and her father-in-law. Quite a satisfying book. Even a love interest - too bad he's the law. However she overcame even that obstacle.! Well-written Sandra Brown, well-written

Thatcher Hutton, a soldier coming home from the war, wins a game of cards and almost loses his life in return. He has to jump from the train he was riding in, heading back to his previous life as a cowboy, and he winds up in Foley, Texas, in even more trouble. His first day there, a local woman goes missing, and Thatcher, being a stranger and new in town, is the convenient scapegoat. He is immediately rounded up and thrown in jail, even though there is no evidence he had anything to do with her disappearance. Laurel Plummer moved to Foley with her husband and newborn baby for a fresh start, and a new job for her husband. But as soon as they got there, her husband deposited her and their daughter with his father and then he committed suicide. So Laurel is stuck there in an unfamilar place, with no way to make ends meet. The only lucrative business trade is one that has recently been made illegal....moonshine.
This book was so good. There were so many colorful characters and it was so well written that I felt like I was actually there watching it all unfold. It was non-stop action from start to finish. There were characters to root for (Thatcher and Laurel) and ones that you hated like the crooked mayor, the doctor, the madam, & the head of the Johnson Clan, This would make an excellent series...I can always hope anyway! It is a great combination of historical fiction, romance and suspense, so there is something in there for everyone. I highly recommend it!

This is Sandra Brown at her finest! I loved the time setting, the characters, the story. Everything was great. Her top notch suspense was there as always! This book just reminds me why Sandra Brown is one of my autobuy authors!

This was a bit of departure for Sandra Brown, as the story takes place during Prohibition. She handles the time period and details well, and the tension was high throughout the story. Easily as enjoyable as her contemporary romantic suspense and the love story, while intense, didn't overwhelm the rest of the plot. Recommended!

So this isn't your typical Sandra Brown book in that it's not a contemporary but a dive back into the 1920s during prohibition. Moonshiners, speakeasies and a different kind of policing run rampant thru the work.

I have to say,even though the subject matter didn't really appeal to me, Brown's unique voice shines through from the page. The hero, a stranger to town, finds himself charged with a crime he didn't commit. The heroine has suffered horrible losses. Together, they find one another and since this is a Sandra Brown work, love and sex ensure.
Thanks to NEtgalley for giving me a sneak peek.
4 stars.

This is like no other Sandra Brown book that I have read. This book is a historical Romantic Suspense set in 1920 Texas This is a time of prohibition and moonshine wars. There are scenes that have rape and there is a lot of killing during these wars. A lot of research went into this book and it shows in many ways. This book shows how a woman of that time period was treated, especially one who makes moonshine for a living

Historical fiction is a genre I don't always love, but when Sandra Brown writes a book I read it and I'm glad that I did. This story is set in the 1920's in Texas and it shows with great detail what the world was like for a woman during the time of prohibition. Laurel's story starts off quite tragically and she is a woman in a new home who needs to find a way to survive the cards life has dealt her. Thatcher has just returned from the war and is looking for a way to get home to the ranch he calls home. Circumstances beyond both of their control keep them in town and their lives continue to intersect as a mystery unfolds. There was some great character development in this story, a believable romance and so much historical information on prohibition. I really enjoyed this story because of the mystery and the romance. Fans of Sandra Brown will not be disappointed in her turn at historical fiction. Thank you netgalley for this arc in exchange for my honest opinion.

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A Blind Tiger is a speakeasy. I love books set in the 1920s--post war, Prohibition. This book had plenty of both. I really liked Laurel as a character, and Thatcher grew on me. The rest of the characters, it was impossible to tell who to trust, which made the story better. There was romance, but not too much romance, which I prefer. I wondered how it would all come together, and I was not disappointed.

Blind Tiger is a classic Sandra Brown romantic suspense story and if you are a fan of this author or that genre at all, you will definitely want to pick it up.

The Great War is over but almost two years after armistice, Thatcher Hutton is still finding his way home. Lack of money and no job means he’s been playing cards to get cash for meals and hitching rides on freight trains to reach the ranch where he worked as a cowboy before he was drafted. His most recent stint of riding the rails finds him in a freight car full of angry men planning to attack the moment he falls asleep, so he escapes the only way he can – by jumping from the rapidly moving locomotive. He gets away relatively unscathed, but he wasn’t able to choose his location and finds himself stuck in the middle of nowhere Texas, walking miles just to reach a domicile. It’s not much, just a lean-to with an outhouse a few feet away but he figures the people there can help.  He stops to ask for a drink and directions to the nearest town. The woman hanging the washing on the line is cool and anxious to have him gone but she points him toward a nearby small burg, lets him drink from their bucket of fresh water – and gives him a memory to carry on the road. He can’t recall ever seeing a sight as pretty as that lovely lady struggling to hang waterlogged sheets on a windy day.

Laurel Palmer is still shell-shocked from all the tragedy that has befallen her in the months since the war ended. Her father-in-law Irv has taken her in but as an invalided former railroad worker, he doesn’t have much in savings and the two of them can barely make ends meet. They’re living in a shack miles away from town and the stranger arriving at their door looking for aid reminds Laurel of just how vulnerable they are.  He was handsome and polite, but strong and quick. Irv had been nervous enough to grab his shotgun and Laurel had been nervous enough to realize she needed to start bringing in some money so she and Irv can move closer to town.

The tiny town of Foley doesn’t have much in the way of industry, but there is a livery stable, and Thatcher demonstrates sufficient skills with the horses that the owner agrees to give him a job for a few weeks. That should enable him to earn enough to buy a train ticket home. With the employment question settled, Thatcher needs to locate a place to live and responds to a sign in the grocer’s window offering a room to rent. When he arrives at the address given, the beautiful pregnant lady at the well-kept, spacious house advises him the sign should have been taken down, since the room being offered is now a nursery. She gives him shortbread to sweeten the sting of rejection and sends him to a far more dour facility on the less affluent side of town. Thatcher doesn’t know it, but the brief encounter is about to change his whole life because that gentle gal goes missing that night.

Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of abducting and killing her. At least he is by the nosy neighbor who saw him at the house and the overly interested mayor who responds to said neighbor’s interference by pressuring the sheriff to arrest Thatcher. Fortunately, Sheriff Bill Amos is a smart man and quickly figures out Thatcher wasn’t involved. Bill just as quickly realizes that Thatcher is handy with a gun, quick on his feet and even faster at spotting a lie. Which makes Thatcher the perfect choice to  help him discover who did take the missing lady.

Just as Thatcher is getting on the right side of the local law, Laurel, driven to desperation by her need for funds, finds herself on the wrong side of the new prohibition regulations. There aren’t many jobs available and certainly nothing that pays very well in a place as small as Foley. She’s got a good head for business, though, and Irv’s friend Ernie has a moonshine whiskey recipe that tastes better than anything available from a distillery. It’s not long before Laurel, Irv and Ernie are running a thriving – if illegal -business of their own. Unbeknownst to them, however, they’ve started their little production just as a local man has begun machinations to take over the entire territory. He’s a cutthroat competitor whose business plan is to brutally eliminate the competition. As the book’s description says, when

violence erupts, Laurel and—now deputy—Thatcher find themselves on opposite sides of a moonshine war, where blood flows as freely as the bootleg.

Word of warning – this book contains a fair amount of carnage and includes scenes of women being ferociously physically and sexually assaulted. I didn’t feel any of it was gratuitous; it seemed a realistic depiction of the vicious criminality that resulted from Prohibition.

Laurel is the sassy, savvy heroine this author loves to write. She’s very much someone who lives up to the adage that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.

The same is true of Thatcher. He is the quintessential Brown hero – taciturn, tough, intelligent, driven, and skilled. Like most of the author’s heroes, though, he can at times be overbearing.  Laurel spends a lot of the early portions of the book telling Thatcher to leave her be and having him constantly come around anyway. The text makes clear she is only trying to protect her battered heart and actually feels a strong fascination/infatuation with him, but I wish the author had written the dynamic a bit differently. While the two characters have sizzling chemistry, a lot of their back and forth depicts Thatcher as someone who can’t take no for an answer and Laurel as someone who doesn’t know her own mind. Which couldn’t be further from the characters of these tenacious, irrepressible people.

The secondary protagonists are also strong, resilient people. Corrine, Sheriff Bill, Ernie and Irv are also wonderful, warm, caring folks who haven’t let the difficulties life has thrown at them turn them bitter. I especially liked the cantankerous Irv, whose crusty exterior hides a heart of pure gold.

The action is fast paced and the suspense portion of the tale is absolutely intriguing. I loved how the author uses the history of the era to show us the way poverty, war, and prohibition laws drove otherwise law-abiding citizens into crime and how that crime in turn created monsters out of some of them. I also liked the domino nature of the corruption – a small law broken here and there, doing things which were legal just a few short years ago snowball into complete corruption when coupled with greed.

Everything that has made Sandra Brown a best-selling author is out in full force in Blind Tiger, and her regular cadre of readers will be delighted by this latest offering. People unfamiliar with her work who enjoy romantic suspense novels should also give this tale a try – you won’t be disappointed.

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I was given this book by NetGalley for an honest review - Sandra Brown's books never disappoint, you have action, romance, and everything you want in a great book.
It's the roaring 20's with moonshine wars, crooked mayor, sheriff, etc.
Laurel's husband returns from the war a different man - they move in with his father and he proceeds to take his life leaving her with a baby to raise and finding a way to make a living. She makes the best pies, and combine them with moonshine and they are in business...Laurel not realizing how dangerous it is.
Thatcher a soldier boy lands in town - a romance begins with each on the other side of the law.... will they be able to overcome this?
Open this book and enter the 20's for the action and adventure and romance that will leave you breathless.