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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780515140002 ISBN: 0515140007 Label: Jove Manufacturer: Jove Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: November 29, 2005 Publisher: Jove Studio: Jove Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: With more than three million copies of her books in print, Judith Kelman is "among the best of the suspense writers publishing today" (Thomas Chastain). In Where Shadows Fall, she tells the story of one mother's nightmare--and her dangerous quest for the truth. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - GET OUT THE LYSOL, FOLKS! THIS ONE REALLY STINKS!This book stinks. It really does. In addition to being completely implausible, it is an insult to one's intelligence. In an nutshell, the protagonist has a son in college and a daughter in high school. The son allegedly commits suicide and she flies to upstate N.Y. to get the scoop on why. Her boorish Neanderthal of a husband refuses to invest any feelings toward the deceased son nor will the rat fly with her. Once airborne, Sarah meets Detective Aldo Diamond (just happens to be sitting ... Read More Rating: - Don't waste your time!After reading one book by Judith Kelman, I thought I would give her a second chance and try another. I didn't possibly think that another could be as bad as the first. I was wrong. Where Shadows Fall is an insult to suspenseful romantic mystery readers everywhere. To start, the relationship between the two major characters in the book is developed hastily and unbelievably. The murder or suicide plot is weak at best and everything surrounding it is just words on a page. Laboring through this leads ... Read More Rating:  - I thoroughly enjoyed this imaginative, suspenseful tale.Learning of her son Nick's suicide, Sarah Spooner goes to his college in search of the truth. Author Kelman creates vivid characters and compelling situations in this page turner. Rating: - I didn't care if Sarah lived or died.This is the story of a mother who lost a child and her trip to unravel why he died. The lead character was never filled out enough to elicit any real emotion from the reader. She was not consistent with the very brief character description in the beginning of the book. This lady was an assistant DA, yet once her son committed suicide she never used any of the characteristics that a GOOD DA would have. She was a basket case most of the way through. Logic was a word she didn't understand. By the end ... Read More 
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