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Run for Home [Audio Download]

by Sheila Quigley (Author), Elizabeth Carling (Narrator)
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
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  • Audio Download
  • Listening Length: 3 hours and 2 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Abridged
  • Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
  • Audible Release Date: 28 April 2006
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SQ8TNO
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)

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1985: a man runs for his life, exhausted, wounded, hunted remorselessly by a woman assassin known only as The Head Hunter. At the end, he has just enough energy to spit in her face.
2001: sixteen-year-old Kerry Lumsdon runs across the same terrain. She runs to win and she runs to forget. When a headless body is found in the wastelands of the Seahills Estate, Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt is called in to investigate.
Kerry and Lorraine, different ages and from different worlds, come together when Claire Lumsdon, Kerry's sister, is violently kidnapped, the fourth in a series of abductions of young girls.

Headstrong, willful, and convinced the police can't help, Kerry sets out on a frantic search of her own. But her hunt takes her to a world she never knew existed: a violent underworld; a sixteen year old murder; and, finally, to secrets about her own past which her mother hoped she'd never have to face. And all the time, the clock is ticking for Claire.

©2005 Sheila Quigley; (P)2005 Random House AudioBooks

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book after reading the hype, unfortunately it did not live up to my expectations. It is written in the style of Martina Cole with a lot more swearing but not in the same class I'm afraid. The story is so unbelievable in places I could not take it seriously, it is littered with coincidences that just would not happen in real life. Reading this book was like watching a bad B movie filled with actors who cannot act!! I do not recommend it.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Disappointing 17 April 2004
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
When I read the blurb, I thought this is my kind of book. Sadly I was disappointed. While the idea for the plotline was good, it did not live up to my expectations. I did not feel the fear I ought to have felt in Claire, the young girl who was kidnapped, or even in her family. Also, I would like to have seen more differentiation of character, particularly in their dialogue. The police inspector's language was little different from that of the criminals she was hunting or from the young people and the adults around them.
But what really put me off this book was the vast amnount of bad language. I accept that it was an integral part of the characters' lifestyle, but I'm sure the point would have been made more clearly by its more limited use.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Family Values Triumph 11 Jun 2011
By Grooydaz39 TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
What I liked most about Run For Home is that it wasn't set in some posh little village with a manor house and an overly suspicious butler. The settings were everyday and the characters were down to earth and believable. I could relate to it. The dialogue in this respect was also believable. I liked the fact that it focused not just around the police but around a family. There were nice touches of humour that worked well as the characters interacted together.

A Great novel and a very enjoyable read.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Yer
Apparently the characters in this book are all pirates, which can be the only possible explanation for why every sentence contains a hearty "yerrr". Read more
Published 15 days ago by DJD
Love it
I am from the town Sheila writes about but have lived away for many years. Reading her books are like going home.
The characters are true to life, including the swearing. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jeannie
Underwhelming
Had this in my pile to read for a long time and maybe I should have left it a bit longer.

Working class family has one of it's girls abducted as part of a human... Read more
Published 7 months ago by N. Brett
Great for a debut novel!
I had never read (or heard of) Sheila Quigley until it was recommended to me. I brought the first book as, although debuts are not always the authors best, they certainly give you... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Best Books To Read
Brit Grit Queen!
RUN FOR HOME is a thriller about a family and a community that harbour dark secrets.

Like all of Sheila Quigley's books it takes place in the Seahills Estate, a... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Paul D Brazill
Truly dire
Frankly, giving this book even one star seems overly generous. The writing is clunky and amateurish; characters are trite paper-thin stereotypes (further burdened with the author's... Read more
Published on 16 July 2007 by Chris2505
exellant debut!!!!
i was not sure when i picked this book up if it was for me or not, boy was i wrong it is fantastic the characters are so real that you actually feel as if you know them and that... Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2007 by shell
Wow
This is the first in what looks like a fantastic series. Could not put it down. She gives a true picture of life on inner city estate. Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2007 by Book Reader
Pure talent........................
I dont no how anyone can call this book dreadful are you actualy reading or just flicking through. Sheila is an undiscovered talent of the writing world, i find having read all her... Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2006 by Miss Rachael
It has some good and Bad Parts
The book has good parts and bad parts, the good parts I liked the family situation and Kerry was properley my favourite character and the only one really that kept me reading, it... Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2006 by Hayley
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