But she has a few of her own…
In the lock down ward of a psychiatric hospital, Dr. Nadine Lavoie is in her element. She has the tools to help people, and she has the desire—healing broken families is what she lives for. But Nadine doesn’t want to look too closely at her own past because there are whole chunks of her life that are black holes. It takes all her willpower to tamp down her recurrent claustrophobia, and her daughter, Lisa, is a runaway who has been on the streets for seven years.
When a distraught woman, Heather Simeon, is brought into the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine gently coaxes her story out of her—and learns of some troubling parallels with her own life. Digging deeper, Nadine is forced to confront her traumatic childhood, and the damage that began when she and her brother were brought by their mother to a remote commune on Vancouver Island. What happened to Nadine? Why was their family destroyed? And why does the name Aaron Quinn, the group’s leader, bring complex feelings of terror to Nadine even today?
And then, the unthinkable happens, and Nadine realizes that danger is closer to home than she ever imagined. She has no choice but to face what terrifies her the most…and fight back.
Sometimes you can leave the past, but you can never escape."
~ From the Publisher
Chevy Stevens writes a good thriller, but I didn't find this one as compelling, or as suspenseful as her two previous books, Still Missing and Never Knowing. The edge of your seat feeling just wasn't there for me and the main character, Dr. Nadine Lavoie, was hard to connect with and didn't always ring true, at least for me. I'm still a fan though, and look forward to her next book. If you haven't read her, check out her first book, Still Missing--although if you sell houses for a living, you might want to pass on this one! ~~ Katherine
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Murder with Puffins (Meg Langslow, Bk 2)
Author: Donna Andrews
Winner of the St. Martin's Malice Domestic Award in 1997 for her first work Murder With Peacocks, Donna Andrews brings back her zany characters and disastrous events. — In an attempt to get away from her family, Meg and her boyfriend go to a tiny island off the coast of Maine. What could have been a romantic getaway slowly turns into disaster. — Once there, they are marooned by a hurricane and that is only the beginning of their problems. Meg and her boyfriend arrive at the house only to discover that Meg's parents and siblings, along with their spouses are all there. When a murder takes place, Meg realizes that she and her boyfriend can no longer sit by a cozy fireplace, but must instead tramp around the muddy island to keep try and clear her father who is the chief suspect.
I am on the fence with this series although I do have the 3rd and 4th books waiting to be read. I like the mystery but the main character, Meg, seems to be a doormat for her family. I hope to see her character grow in the next couple of books. It seems to be a popular series with the 16th in the series coming out in 2014.
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