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Run for Home (Hardcover)

by Sheila Quigley (Author)
3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 423 pages
  • Publisher: Century (22 Mar 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844134024
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844134021
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 578,432 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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" A rattling good plot...it doesn' t stop running until the final page by which time you will be breathless."
"-- Newcastle upon Tyne Journal"

"From the Paperback edition."

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It's 1985. A man is hunted down and killed by a woman assassin known as The Head Hunter. Sixteen years later, his body turns up and Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt is called in to investigate. The day the body is found, Claire Lumsdon is the victim of a violent kidnap - the fourth in a series of abductions of young girls. For Claire and her sixteen-year-old sister Kerry, it's the beginning of a nightmare. Convinced the police can't help, Kerry sets out on a frantic search for her sister. But her hunt leads her to much more than she'd bargained for: a violent underworld; a sixteen year old murder; and, finally, the secrets about her past - and her father - which her mother hoped she'd never have to face. And all the time, the clock is ticking for Claire -

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 17 April 2004
By A Customer
This review is from: Run for Home (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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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars The story is too unbeleivable and cliched., 7 Jun 2004
By Mrs Angela Rhodes (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Run for Home (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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18 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Run for Home, 28 May 2004
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This review is from: Run for Home (Paperback)
How strange that vrogerson from London, Jenny Fox from Lincolnshire and jason bolt from england all have the same problems with their space bars and spellcheckers. Must be something to do with fans of pulp crime novels.

I have to say that, having heard about this book on the radio, I was very disappointed when I started reading it. I thought the plot and the characters were formulaic and clichéd and, I confess, I didn't finish reading it.

For me, there's a hint of surrealism in the publishers' comparison with Martina Cole and Catherine Cookson. Now there's a combination I never expected to see.

Generally, I rely on the blurb and critics when I'm deciding whether to buy a book. Normally, if I didn't enjoy a story, I wouldn't offer such a negative criticism. I would simply notch it up to bad luck. But in this case I was seduced by the radio hype and now I'm asking myself - is this a touch of the emperor's new clothes?

Or can someone explain to me exactly why I should finish reading this book?

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1.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more
Published on 16 Jul 2007 by Chris2505

5.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2007 by shell

5.0 out of 5 stars 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

4.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2006 by Miss Rachael

3.0 out of 5 stars 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 20 Mar 2006 by Hayley

5.0 out of 5 stars best book ever
I could not put it down,so good I read it twice and will be packing it for holidays. Real people not card board cut outs running around doing page after page of nothing. Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2006

5.0 out of 5 stars best book ever
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Published on 14 Mar 2006

1.0 out of 5 stars A terrible book!
I DON’T begrudge first-time novelist and grandmother-of-eight Sheila Quigley a penny of the £300,000 she got from Random House for a two-book deal on the basis of this... Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2006 by ZedBooks

5.0 out of 5 stars Sheila Quigley "Run for home ."
Having read the book run for home i found it insperational to all who read it . The story plot changes from different places and keeps you on the edge of your seat which ever way... Read more
Published on 1 Jun 2005 by Rachael

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
I liked many bits of this book, the characters were good - why we have the story of the the missing/transvestite husband is a bit of a mystery but....... Read more
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