I had to check what I read of Linda Howard. I read the first and second in the MacKenzie series, liked the first, was meh on the second.
I liked and read "Dream Man" and "Mr Pefect but its been a few years and I don't remember much so can only go by how I filed it with stars.
I also read and loved "Son of the Morning", but then I love time travel.
I also read a book called Burn by her and I didn't like that one. I think Burn I read when I was starting to try to get into romantic suspense, that book almost cured me of those.

. Thinking back now, I wouldn't consider that romantic suspense but a thriller.
And was there a Howard book where there was a serial killer at at one point he gruesomely beheaded a women? I swear I read that a few years I thought it was a Howard. Can't swear on that now and I can't remember what it was called now. *shudders.