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Brown, Sandra
Adult Fiction BROWN
From Publishers' Weekly:
Lust, jealousy and murder suffuse Brown's crisp thriller (after White Hot), set in the snowbound mountains of North Carolina. Lilly and Dutch Burton's marriage didn't withstand the loss of their three-year-old daughter, despite their attempt at a fresh start with the purchase of a vacation cabin in bucolic Cleary, N.C., where the novel opens on the divorced couple discussing its sale. Dutch is now Cleary's chief of police, and Lilly is a magazine editor in Atlanta. As she races back to the city to beat a blizzard, her car skids out, striking a hiker emerging from the woods. Turns out he's a man she knows: handsome freelance writer Ben Tierney, whom she met and flirted with the summer before. With no choice but to wait out the storm in the cabin with Ben, who is injured, Lilly calls Dutch, but he can't reach her via the now impassable mountain road. Meanwhile, Cleary is haunted by the case of five missing women-all now feared dead. With Lilly still stranded, Dutch goes ballistic when the FBI arrives in town with evidence that Tierney is the serial killer. The snowy suspense will cool off Brown's fans during the dog days of summer. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
From Library Journal:
In this romantic thriller, Lilly Martin is in the small North Carolina town of Cleary, emptying her mountain cabin, which has been sold because of her recent divorce from the town's chief of police, Dutch Burton. Caught in a snowstorm on the mountain, Lilly runs into (literally) Ben Tierney as she tries to drive down to safety. Leaving the wrecked car in a ditch, the two make it back up the hill to her cabin, where they are stranded. The situation down in Cleary is tense: five women have mysteriously disappeared in the last two years. Gradually, suspicion focuses on Ben as a "person of interest," with many of the residents, including Dutch, considering him already convicted. Cleary is a strange town, full of maladjusted individuals: Dutch is an alcoholic who was fired from the Atlanta Police Department; his best friend is Wes Hamer, the high school football coach who is abusing his son while trying to relive his high school glory days. The FBI agents who show up to talk to Ben are rather unusual to say the least. Brown weaves all these vivid characters together into a spell-binding mosaic, while making us care about what happens to Lilly and Ben. Stephen Lang's narration is top-notch; his rendition of Dutch and Wes's "good ol' boy" conversations are priceless. Highly recommended for all adult fiction collections.-Nancy Reed, McCracken Cty. P.L., Paducah, KY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Brown, Sandra
Adult Fiction BROWN
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From Publishers' Weekly:
Lust, jealousy and murder suffuse Brown's crisp thriller (after White Hot), set in the snowbound mountains of North Carolina. Lilly and Dutch Burton's marriage didn't withstand the loss of their three-year-old daughter, despite their attempt at a fresh start with the purchase of a vacation cabin in bucolic Cleary, N.C., where the novel opens on the divorced couple discussing its sale. Dutch is now Cleary's chief of police, and Lilly is a magazine editor in Atlanta. As she races back to the city to beat a blizzard, her car skids out, striking a hiker emerging from the woods. Turns out he's a man she knows: handsome freelance writer Ben Tierney, whom she met and flirted with the summer before. With no choice but to wait out the storm in the cabin with Ben, who is injured, Lilly calls Dutch, but he can't reach her via the now impassable mountain road. Meanwhile, Cleary is haunted by the case of five missing women-all now feared dead. With Lilly still stranded, Dutch goes ballistic when the FBI arrives in town with evidence that Tierney is the serial killer. The snowy suspense will cool off Brown's fans during the dog days of summer. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
From Library Journal:
In this romantic thriller, Lilly Martin is in the small North Carolina town of Cleary, emptying her mountain cabin, which has been sold because of her recent divorce from the town's chief of police, Dutch Burton. Caught in a snowstorm on the mountain, Lilly runs into (literally) Ben Tierney as she tries to drive down to safety. Leaving the wrecked car in a ditch, the two make it back up the hill to her cabin, where they are stranded. The situation down in Cleary is tense: five women have mysteriously disappeared in the last two years. Gradually, suspicion focuses on Ben as a "person of interest," with many of the residents, including Dutch, considering him already convicted. Cleary is a strange town, full of maladjusted individuals: Dutch is an alcoholic who was fired from the Atlanta Police Department; his best friend is Wes Hamer, the high school football coach who is abusing his son while trying to relive his high school glory days. The FBI agents who show up to talk to Ben are rather unusual to say the least. Brown weaves all these vivid characters together into a spell-binding mosaic, while making us care about what happens to Lilly and Ben. Stephen Lang's narration is top-notch; his rendition of Dutch and Wes's "good ol' boy" conversations are priceless. Highly recommended for all adult fiction collections.-Nancy Reed, McCracken Cty. P.L., Paducah, KY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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