Bone Cold
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Twenty-three years ago Anna North survived a living nightmare. A madman kidnapped her, cut off her pinkie, then vanished. Today Anna lives in New Orleans, writing dark thrillers under another name. She finally feels safe.
Suddenly Anna's quiet life takes a frightening turn. Letters start to arrive from a disturbed fan. Anna is followed, her apartment broken into. Then a close friend disappears.
Anna turns to homicide detective Quentin Malone, but Malone's more concerned with the recent murders of two women in the French Quarter. But after a third victim is founda redhead like Anna, her pinkie severedMalone is forced to acknowledge that Anna is his link to the killer and could be the next target.
Now Anna must face the horrifying truthher past has caught up with her. The nightmare has begun again.
Erica Spindler
No matter how innocent the story being relayed to me is, I can twist it into something pretty damn frightening. I've learned the real trick is not sharing these versions with those relaying the story. It tends to make people avoid me.” ~ Erica Spindler A New York Times and International bestselling author, Erica Spindler's skill for crafting engrossing plots and compelling characters has earned both critical praise and legions of fans. Published in 25 countries, her stories have been lauded as “thrill-packed page turners, white- knuckle rides and edge-of-your-seat whodunits.” Raised in Rockford, Illinois, Erica had planned on being an artist, earning a BFA from Delta State University and an MFA from the University of New Orleans in the visual arts. In June of 1982, in bed with a cold, she picked up a romance novel for relief from daytime television. She was immediately hooked, and soon decided to try to write one herself. She leaped from romance to suspense in 1996 with her novel Forbidden Fruit, and found her true calling. Her novel Bone Cold won the prestigious Daphne du Maurier Award for excellence. A Romance Writers of America Honor Roll member, she received a Kiss of Death Award for her novels Forbidden Fruit and Dead Run and was a three-time RITA® Award finalist. Publishers Weekly awarded the audio version of her novel Shocking Pink a Listen Up Award, naming it one of the best audio mystery books of 1998. Erica lives just outside New Orleans, Louisiana, with her husband and two sons and is busy at work on her next thriller.
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Reviews for Bone Cold
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Didn't get to finish it . Got kicked out on chapter 9 . Not happy!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Muttering an oath, ok so this may be silly but this phrase came up over 15 times in the book. I have never actually heard the phrase but I of course understood what it meant. It was kind of annoying. So the book was ok. It wasn’t great I had it figured out pretty quickly but I wasn’t 100% sure I was right but in the end, yes it was as I suspected. There’s a lot of twists. It was good. Not great but ok.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the first book on Scribd that made me write a review. That means something.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bone Cold. Erica Spindler. 2001. Peggy gave me this book and another when I was visiting her and Wych Thanksgiving. This a romantic suspense novel set in New Orleans. A young woman who was kidnapped when she was a child has changed her name, fled to New Orleans and become a successful mystery writer. Her life is turned inside out when she starts receiving letters from a child may also have been kidnapped. There are lots surprising plot twists that make this an interesting novel.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a phenomenal book! This was the first Spindler book I've read and I can't wait to start the next one. The story opens with a description of Harlow Grail's terrifying ordeal, and then we meet her new identity, Anna North. What follows is an incredibly well written psychological thriller about unwanted ghosts from the past reappearing. Unputdownable, it kept me guessing right till the very end!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Interesting coincidence: The book I read directly before this featured a main character named Anastasia who went by Ana. The books I read directly before that took place in and around New Orleans. This book takes place in New Orleans and features a main character named Anastasia who goes by Anna. Harlow Anastasia Grail, child of Hollywood Royalty was kidnapped at the age of eleven. She lost her innocence, her trust in the world and her right pinkie finger. She is now Anna North, a suspense novelist living in New Orleans and carefully guards her identity and location, but someone has discovered both, possibly her as yet un-apprehended original kidnapper. Now, 23 years later, someone is killing women who bear a startling resemblance to Anna, her friends and family have gotten anonymous mail telling them to watch an E! special that outs her, and a close friend of hers goes missing. NOPD Officer Quentin Malone is on the case, and fighting his attraction to the lovely and vulnerable Anna. The action is riveting and suspenseful, a 512 page novel with no excess, nothing that screams to be cut. Complicated, complex, dynamic characters also add to the reader’s enjoyment. The setting is rich with detail and references to familiar places in the iconic city of New Orleans. The relationship between the two main characters is believable; despite the short time they’ve known each other and the intensity of the mystery surrounding them. The romantic scenes are protracted and not a distraction from the plot, nor an excuse to heat up the pages. This is a first-rate thriller that happens to have an element of romance, as opposed to a mediocre romance spiced up with a murder mystery (which most romantic suspense novels can’t help but be.) Much praise and kudos to Ms Spindler!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My house is a mess because I couldn't stop reading. Full bodied characters, set description and suspense. This one is making the rounds of our book exchange. The only problem is who gets the book next.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Erica Spindler does it again! This book is so fast paced, with tons of twists and turns. 506 pages, but each page kept my attention. The characters are awesome. I really enjoyed Anna and Quentin. They had tons of chemistry. At the halfway point, I started to suspect who the killer was and kind of had a hunch that he was a split personality, so when it turned out to be true I was not surprised. The only thing I would have liked to see more towards the end of the book was Dalton and Bill. They played such a role in the first half of the book, and then when all the excitement in the climax and conclusion came around they rather faded into the background. An awesome book!