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The gripping new Karin Schaeffer thriller
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Karin Schaeffer's husband is missing presumed dead.
The police are convinced that Mac took his own life after the brutal murder of his parents in what looks like a robbery gone bad...Karin is determined to do all she can to find her husband...alive or dead.
Only she's about to discover how little she knows about the man she married.
But someone else is watching the Schaeffer family. Watching, waiting and biding their time before they reveal the dark secrets of Mac's past - and exact a terrifying revenge.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Enjoyable ... yes!
Gripping ... yes! Certainly!
Hard to put down? It wouldn't be a book by Katia Lief if it were. This book held me right up to the end, and was typical of a book by Katia Lief. It should appeal to readers of both Norah Roberts and Mary Higgins Clark.
My only complaint is that I feel that Katia Lief has a tendency to hurry the endings, with the result that the endings tend to appear underdeveloped and a little disappointing compared with the rest of the book. This is a real shame, as I find 90% of the book to be virtually un-putdownable!
Well worth a try!
Gripping ... yes! Certainly!
Hard to put down? It wouldn't be a book by Katia Lief if it were. This book held me right up to the end, and was typical of a book by Katia Lief. It should appeal to readers of both Norah Roberts and Mary Higgins Clark.
My only complaint is that I feel that Katia Lief has a tendency to hurry the endings, with the result that the endings tend to appear underdeveloped and a little disappointing compared with the rest of the book. This is a real shame, as I find 90% of the book to be virtually un-putdownable!
Well worth a try!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Having enjoyed Katia Lief's previous novel "You Are Next", I was looking forward to the next instalment in ex-cop Karin Schaeffer's life, and - by and large - I wasn't disappointed.
Lief manages to write both emotion and action well, fleshing out both her characters and their surroundings to the point where you almost feel you know these people and places in the real world. And in the first part of the book, Schaeffer's search for her missing-presumed-dead husband is compelling and believable.
Unfortunately, that level of realism is somewhat lost in the latter stages of the book. I can't go into too much detail because of spoiling the plot, but suffice to say that the twists and turns of that plot, and the decisions some characters make in order to follow it, verge on the ridiculous at times.
If you're able to suspend your disbelief to a greater extent than I was, I'm sure you'll find this book very enjoyable.
Lief manages to write both emotion and action well, fleshing out both her characters and their surroundings to the point where you almost feel you know these people and places in the real world. And in the first part of the book, Schaeffer's search for her missing-presumed-dead husband is compelling and believable.
Unfortunately, that level of realism is somewhat lost in the latter stages of the book. I can't go into too much detail because of spoiling the plot, but suffice to say that the twists and turns of that plot, and the decisions some characters make in order to follow it, verge on the ridiculous at times.
If you're able to suspend your disbelief to a greater extent than I was, I'm sure you'll find this book very enjoyable.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A waste of printer's ink, frankly. It's okay but there's nothing in the book which tugs at your emotional strings. The characters are boring and Karin Schaeffer is a pain in the neck. I'm not surprised Mac ran off. Though that isn't why he did - or so the author would have us believe. Anyway, if Mac had read this book beforehand, he'd have tried to remain dead, I'm sure.
I positively enjoy imaginative plots but this one, well, it's certainly imaginative but I didn't enjoy it. I don't want to spoil things for other readers. I have read her previous novel and quite enjoyed it but the author will have to lift her game if she wants me to take on the next book.
It's just not possible to empathise with any of the characters so, as we follow them flying all over the place on a whim, discovering who's not who they say they are, I got to the stage that I badly wanted the book to finish and whether any of them survived was of no consequence. Of course, some don't but regrettable as it is, Ms Shaeffer does.
I positively enjoy imaginative plots but this one, well, it's certainly imaginative but I didn't enjoy it. I don't want to spoil things for other readers. I have read her previous novel and quite enjoyed it but the author will have to lift her game if she wants me to take on the next book.
It's just not possible to empathise with any of the characters so, as we follow them flying all over the place on a whim, discovering who's not who they say they are, I got to the stage that I badly wanted the book to finish and whether any of them survived was of no consequence. Of course, some don't but regrettable as it is, Ms Shaeffer does.
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Another good holiday read
Like most of Katia Lief's novels, "Hide and Seek" is an above-averagely penned thriller, which makes for an excellent novel for a long plane flight, or an idle few days on the... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Steve Benner
hhhmmmmm - could try harder
This book was written quite well, not too flowery etc and the idea behind it was a little different but it just didnt come together at the end very well for me, almost as thought... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mrs. N. C. Kelly
Forgettable Title, Unforgettable Book
This is the first Katia Lief book I have read but if her others are half as good as this it certainly wont be the last. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Graeme Wright
Excellent!
Not only is this well written, it is an excellent, fast paced, piece of crime fiction, one of Ms Lief's best. This has atmosphere, great characters, strong plot, and menace.
Published 3 months ago by Alison Petrie
Well worth a read
I had high expectations for the latest Katia Lief novel and I wasn't disappointed.
A gripping, well written story that I read in one sitting because it was hard to put... Read more
A gripping, well written story that I read in one sitting because it was hard to put... Read more
Published 4 months ago by RM Brown
Too many twists make is unbelievable and somewhat comic
I finished the book... but had to ask myself if this was a serious thriller or a parody.
The writing style is what you would expect from an easy holiday read, the story... Read more
The writing style is what you would expect from an easy holiday read, the story... Read more
Published 4 months ago by A. Kubicek
OK for a wet day
I found the first half of this book compelling, up to the point where she actually found her husband. Then it fell flat. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Sue C.
Average - at best
This is a truly awful book.
Katia Leif piles coincidence upon the predictable as she flounders around for a plot, ending up with a storyline that appears to borrow from... Read more
Katia Leif piles coincidence upon the predictable as she flounders around for a plot, ending up with a storyline that appears to borrow from... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Andy Edwards
good
a very good read it is as good good as her first novel .and i will be looking out for other books by this writter .
Published 4 months ago by Ms. B. E. Harris
Bit of a let-down compared to the high standard of the previous book.
Really enjoyed the previous book, however this one failed to click, at times the story felt rushed and inconsistent, I also disliked the large amounts of product namedropping in... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Clashcity Rocker
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