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Choices have consequences or rewards and in this novel Lauren will pay for her choices. Her husband is a small town doctor who's partner has commited criminal acts agianst the practice. Lauren is aware that an audit from the government is coming and that is why her husband is unhinged. This is not the only thing that unhinges him and in the course of a short afternoon, her world of private secrets are exposed for all to see. Her husband discovers she is having an affair while looking for boxes of evidence planted by his partner to put him in jail while he sails to Cancun. He takes her hostage and she is living a nightmare and when he demands to speak to Danny she thinks she has the identity of her lover. No he is still clueless but thinks Danny will understand him, even when Danny tells him he knows about the caner. This is when Lauren realizes she will not leave alive nor will the children be spared. The reasons this book will not get a 5 from me, is she had a chance to lock him in a safe room and escaped only she didnt, well that was only 1/2 way into the book and when the son comes back to the house.

This installment of the body farm novels picked up right where the last one ended. As the trial is set to begin, Garland Hamilton is on trial for murder. Only he fakes a medical emergency and escapes. In the meantime, Bill is called in to determine how a husband murdered his wife, when she is in Tenn. and he was in Las Vegas. Then the author, rips from the headlines, creamitorium has bodies discoved in the woods. As he works these cases and tries to stay alive protected while Garland hunts for him and terrorizes the campus, this story comes alive. The author has evolved as a writer with the third novel. The first one was very clinical to read and detailed in forensics, the second brought a little life into the world of Dr Brockton. In the third novel, he has Bill work on many cases, some quite complex but has his grief interwoven through all he does. We get more human moments when he returns some missing bones and connects with his son. I can't wait for the next installment of the body farm.

My least favorite novel so far of this series. Darren is betrayed by a friend and is on the run for his life. He meets up with the wolves and they save him. He returns to Vampire Mountain to expose the traitor and save the vampires. My problem with this book, is most of it felt forced to me and the reason for the betrayal felt false. And then the improbale reason for sparring Darren's life, goes against all this book and other novels have taught about this group of vampires.

This book had me from the beginning and was a 5 star book until the ending. Terry is a middle age woman working as a nurse and living alone. To her it seems as life as passed her by and when Allison shows up to rent her cottage a new life seems to spring for Terry. This book is told by the main character as if she is having a conversation with the reader. This made it seem as if Terry was targeted for a scam involving either herself or her patients. This is a taut psyhological thriller that you will read quickly to see how Terry believes she is being taken for a ride. All the way through the book, I kept saying Terry wake up and get out of there, but that didn't happen. Now for the problem with the ending, I hated the fact she killed her patient in the nursing home. That wasn't justified at all. But looking back at her mother's death, she caused that too. And in the end Terry wasn't the victim, but rather the devious criminal who I believe suffered a mental illness or is a psycopath. And since I wasn't given a WHY for her actions, it gets a 4 not a 5 but I STILL highly recommend this book.

I guess a 2.5 rating would work. I felt as if I was reading 3 short stories that were somehow turned into a novel. The whole storyline taking place in the islands of Georgia had NOTHING to do with the main plot which is a convicted murderer has his sentence overturn and plots his revenge. Oh how did that happen you ask, well the second story is a judge who gave away his vote for a chance to be governor. For a moment that story fit with the plot, but then we travel the road of corrupt politicans. If these stories tie into the main plot can someone explain how? As for the main story, if it was the focal point for the whole book, I would give it a 4. I don't believe Hailey wouldn't of been notifed by the courts of this prisoner's release, someone from her hometown would of told her or it would of been mention in the news. Aside from that, having her be stalked by the killer, was engaging especially at the end when it wasn't exactly who I thought it was. It had a couple funny moments too.

Amanda Travis has spent her life running from commitment, family ties and facing her past. She moves to Florida to be far away from her mother and her first ex-husband. One day the phone rings and it is Ben her ex, telling her to come home to Tornoto because her mother just shot a man in cold blood. After making it very clear, she has no intentions of coming home, she is on a plane to Canada. Once there, her mother is cold and aloof, refusing to answering any questions about the man she killed. Amanda is quite stubborn refuses to leave until she learns the truth. And the truth comes out and there are more twists than a corkscrew. This book could be a 5 except when she is hunting the answers she needs, there is no use of the internet. The book was writtne in 2005, and some of the things she needed to find, could of been found using google.

I LOVE her series set in National Parks with Anna Pigeon as the main character. The beginning of this book really pulled me and I couldn't wait to see where it took me. When we switched to Louisana, I got lost. That part of the plot was tiresome to read and I couldn't get the connection with the story in Minnesota. A young boy in Minnesota kills his whole family violently except for his brother. We see his story unfold during his years in lock up. His brother is very supportive of him, and is taken in by a loving woman during these years. Now we switch to Lousiana, Polly is a girl who up and left one day for New Orleans and never looked back. I never saw the clues as to how these stories connected and by time the ending which took me by surprise and was the best part of the book, I didn't really care to hear more about Polly's life.

It has been a while but Darren has accepted the role of Prince and is doing an okay job at the war with the vampereze. This book I enjoyed because they FINALLY left Vampire Mountain. Mr. Tiny arrives and predicts doom for the vampires and states how the war must be fought. Why they decide to listen to him, I don't get it. I think he is two faced, creepy and up to no good. At the end we return to the Circus for a visit and Darren and his group realize how hard the fight will be to save the vampire race.

Once I got past all the name brand dropping and thinking Gossip girl invades the vampire world, it was a very good Read. Schulyver Van Alen is the misfit who doesn't fit into the mold of New York High Society. She wears clothes that make her look like a homeless runaway and doesn't bow down to the rich mean girls of the school. Soon she notices blue veins on her body and blackout and memories that have her tumbling back in time. A visit to Dr Pat, informs her she is a blue blood aka Vampire. These vampires came over on the Mayflower and are refered to as the 400. Only things are not normal as something is attacking them and the elders refuse to tell the new generation the truth. Schulvyer, Oliver who she learns is a servant to her, and Dylan who doesn't fit anywhere. There is a death of a classmate, strange attacks and more questions than answers. She learns she is only half vamp and must find her grandfather in order to live for eternity.

I am attempting to read mor christain novels after reading [b:The Shack|1812457|The Shack|William P. Young|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51km9XU29RL._SL75_.jpg|2666268]. This author is quite popular and was recommended. I enjoyed the setting of the NFL world, and learning more about children in foster care. I did not enjoy how everything was tied in a neat package at the end. The ending was very predictable and boring to an otherwise engaging story. Melissa is raising Cory after his mother suddenly falls ill and dies. Aaron Hill is the quarterback for the 49ers and Cory believes with all his heart that he is his father. Melissa is a single mom working two jobs just to keep food on the table and while she loves Cory with all her heart, his obsession with his father is very hard to handle. She wants to adopt him, but with him holding onto a father walking in his life, she can't. They live in different worlds but when Aaron needs to clean up his image, they come together at the foster home where she volunteers. Derrick is the man who brings God to Aaron and helps him change his life. The ending was predictable because Melissa finally gives Aaron a chance and the rest is history.