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Attorney Gail Connors must look to her past to discover who is threatening her family this "gripping . . . riveting thriller" (Publishers Weekly). Gail finally has everything she wants--a home to call her own, a growing private law practice, and a loving man in lawyer Anthony Quintana. But life is never perfect: the house needs massive renovations, her professional life is getting out of control, she's in the middle of a custody case with her ex, and Quintana's murky past continues to disturb her. Then Gail receives a series of mysterious phone calls and obscene letters threatening violence, torture, and death. The target: not Gail herself, but her ten-year-old daughter, Karen. Gail knows she's made enemies in her line of work. But now someone is threatening her little girl. And her tormentors are about to learn that there is no limit to how far Gail is willing to go to keep her family safe. Written by an Edgar Award finalist and former prosecutor, "Suspicion of Betrayal works as a thriller, a psychological suspense novel, a mystery and a romance as well as an examination of cultural clashes [with] believable, realistic characters stylishly shaped" (South FloridaSun-Sentinel). Suspicion of Betrayal is the 4th book in the Suspicion series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.… (meer)
Yes there were many suspects. At first. Then the author totally gave everything away and made the last part of the book very dull. Which isn’t saying much considering that the first part of the book wasn’t that exciting to begin with. Sure there are the creepy pictures and the weird mechanical voice on the phone, but the tension never really builds. Gail is too unsympathetic a figure, too. Her blind attraction to Anthony Quintana, her leftover attraction to her ex-husband Dave and her ‘oh well, things will work out in the end’ attitude are really annoying. For someone who is supposed to be so smart, she sure gets thrown for loop after loop.
At first I thought it might be Dave. Then I thought it might be Anthony, trying to make it look so bad at Gail’s that the court would give Karen to Dave. Then when the old case files are dredged out and we hear about the man who got his house taken away by a bank that Gail represented. He is ruined and then kills his kids and his wife and then himself. Well, almost. The wife lived. About 2 paragraphs after that, Gail’s inept receptionist starts acting nuts, gets fired and then Gail finds out she didn’t have a husband or kids. Bingo. Revenge motive. Deranged widow. The bit framing Gail’s handyman was mildly interesting, but not much was done with it. It was as if the author knew it was a throw-away piece from the beginning.
In the end we learn that although Anthony isn’t behind the harassment or threats, he isn’t as loving and wonderful as portrayed. He deliberately soured a deal between Dave and a major corporation so that Dave would continue to be a loser and wouldn’t stand any chance of winning Gail back. Gail finds out about it and about the fact that Anthony’s grandfather had her client’s husband killed in order to protect his own crimes from being discovered. She breaks it off and Anthony turns into a complete asshole. Thankfully, the book was over by then.
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Like anyone else with a telephone, Gail Connor had received her share of crank calls, but none where the person on the other end had disuised his voice, called her a bitch, and said she was going to die.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
A breeze came off the bay and wandered through the trellis, filling the evening air with the sweet scent of jasmine.
Attorney Gail Connors must look to her past to discover who is threatening her family this "gripping . . . riveting thriller" (Publishers Weekly). Gail finally has everything she wants--a home to call her own, a growing private law practice, and a loving man in lawyer Anthony Quintana. But life is never perfect: the house needs massive renovations, her professional life is getting out of control, she's in the middle of a custody case with her ex, and Quintana's murky past continues to disturb her. Then Gail receives a series of mysterious phone calls and obscene letters threatening violence, torture, and death. The target: not Gail herself, but her ten-year-old daughter, Karen. Gail knows she's made enemies in her line of work. But now someone is threatening her little girl. And her tormentors are about to learn that there is no limit to how far Gail is willing to go to keep her family safe. Written by an Edgar Award finalist and former prosecutor, "Suspicion of Betrayal works as a thriller, a psychological suspense novel, a mystery and a romance as well as an examination of cultural clashes [with] believable, realistic characters stylishly shaped" (South FloridaSun-Sentinel). Suspicion of Betrayal is the 4th book in the Suspicion series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
At first I thought it might be Dave. Then I thought it might be Anthony, trying to make it look so bad at Gail’s that the court would give Karen to Dave. Then when the old case files are dredged out and we hear about the man who got his house taken away by a bank that Gail represented. He is ruined and then kills his kids and his wife and then himself. Well, almost. The wife lived. About 2 paragraphs after that, Gail’s inept receptionist starts acting nuts, gets fired and then Gail finds out she didn’t have a husband or kids. Bingo. Revenge motive. Deranged widow. The bit framing Gail’s handyman was mildly interesting, but not much was done with it. It was as if the author knew it was a throw-away piece from the beginning.
In the end we learn that although Anthony isn’t behind the harassment or threats, he isn’t as loving and wonderful as portrayed. He deliberately soured a deal between Dave and a major corporation so that Dave would continue to be a loser and wouldn’t stand any chance of winning Gail back. Gail finds out about it and about the fact that Anthony’s grandfather had her client’s husband killed in order to protect his own crimes from being discovered. She breaks it off and Anthony turns into a complete asshole. Thankfully, the book was over by then.