Helene Streeter seems to be the perfect wife and mother--a cool, analytical psychologist at the pinnacle of her profession. When Streeter is slaughtered at her own doorstep, her daughter, Thea Kozak's old college roommate, begs Thea for help in finding her mother's killer. Soon, Thea is caught in...
Combining the drama of a true crime story, with the detail of a police procedural, Finding Amy chronicles the investigation into one of the most shocking murders in recent Maine history. Twenty-five-year-old Amy St. Laurent was attractive, intelligent, and responsible. One October evening, she we...
So...I'm taking a writing class with the author, and read the book during this time, so my review is a bit tainted with that knowledge, and is a bit haphazard. First of all, I didn't realize that this was the third in the series. It wasn't until I neared the end that I noticed this. During the...
I down loaded this e-book from Amazon.com to my Kindle Fire. The Author Kate Flora did an excellent job writing this e-book. The main character was very strong and deep. There were times in the story that I could feel, “Thea Kozak” the main character jumping off the pages. This is a very passiona...
Surprisingly, I thought it was a very well written thriller, well-paced, full of twists and turns yet very readable and humane. This story deals with a troubled teenage girl who triggers powerful emotions in her wake and ends up destroyed by the adults who should be legally responsible for her w...
Normally, being bullied and threatened doesn't make me fuzzy with fear, but I wasn't myself. I was barely up to the challenges of breathing and mobility and I was in a situation that called for a level of skill and adroitness few people other than professional negotiators possessed. "Why do you w...
Psychedelic coils of blue light and sound swirled around us, distorted by the fog, until we rocked to a stop in front of the gym. We piled out of the car and ran up the steps into the building, into a welter of gym smells—sweat and cleaner and chlorine—and the sounds of gym activities. Balls poun...
The house was in a nice part of town and it was a nice house. A new house on a big lot with expensive landscaping and a sparkling white fence and healthy shrubs for privacy. There was a Lincoln SUV in the driveway. When he rang the bell, a real dog barked, and when a woman answered, the dog was r...
The shrimp, not the hand. The hand lifted and Lewis Broder landed in the seat beside me. He smelled of alcohol and tobacco and he was breathing both into my face with every angry exhalation. The look on his face would have frightened babies. I considered running away. I already knew I wasn't inte...
He thought when he finished here, he'd pay an unannounced visit to Jen Kelly. "Coffee break?" he suggested. "If anyone's looking for me," Charlie told the receptionist, "I'm in the cafeteria." Charlie pointed to an empty table by the window. "Why don't you grab that one. I'm having coffee. You wa...
He flopped like a dead fish and seemed to have more limbs than an octopus. I now understood the true meaning of the term dead weight. But hard or not, I was sending Jay Hanrahan home and without the good time he’d planned on when he’d had the bartender dump that powder into my drink. Even with Ge...
He showered and went into the bedroom, his skin puckering as he crossed the room. The window air-conditioner was working flat-out and the room was as cold as a meat-locker. Chris had bought the air-conditioner, saying, "You want to have sex in a summer like this, you need air-conditioning." He wa...