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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780778325307
ISBN number: 077832530X
Label: Mira
Manufacturer: Mira
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: March 01, 2008
Publishing house: Mira
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The footprints were etched in the snow for miles, passing through walls and crossing rivers…appearing on the other side as though no barrier could stop them.
In 1922 a farmer in Adamant, Arkansas, awakes to a noise on his roof and finds his snow-blanketed yard marked with thousands of cloven footprints. The prints vanish with the melting snow…only to reappear seventy years later near the gruesome killing of Rachel DeLaune.
Years after her sister's unsolved murder, New Orleans tattoo artist Sarah DeLaune is haunted by the mysteries of her past. Sarah has always believed that her sister was killed by a man named Ashe Cain. But no one else had ever seen Ashe. He had 'appeared' to Sarah when she needed a friend the most, only to vanish on the night of her sister's murder. The past bleeds into the present when two mutilated bodies are found near Sarah's home, the crime scene desecrated by cloven footprints.
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Lately, I have been buying books and tossing them aside half-way through.
I wont throw good time away after poorly spent money. Redundent plots and weak characters are in so many books I read lately.
Well, not so with this wonderful read! I would give it an extra star if I could.
The Devil's Footprints is a wonderful thriller with just the perfect amount of romance. I was all I could do not to take a day off work to
finish reading this book. Bravo Ms. Stevens!
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To be honest I didn't think I was going to like this book in the beginning it moved kind of slow to me, but I kept reading and got sucked into the story. Sarah, whom the story revolves around, is a woman dogged by tragedy to the point that she's blocked most memories of her childhood and is medicated to the gills. Her shrink suggested that for her to find closure she'd have to make peace with her past, little did she know that dredging up the past would bring a killer back into her life. All the characters are great in this book(though Sean did get on my nerves, very whiny)and as the author starts to build up the profile of the killer any of the men in and around Sarah's life could be the killer. So you are constantly trying to figure out who did it. The book keeps you guessing almost to the end or at least it kept me guessing to the end. Great book!
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Reviewed by Tyler R. Tichelaar for Reader Views (5/08)
Amanda Stevens' "The Devil's Footprints" has the reader guessing from the opening pages. While plenty of novels have supernatural events and characters, I anticipated that this story's supernatural events were going to be explained away rationally, but I had no idea how. From the opening chapter when a man finds the devil's footprints in the snow to his front door and then down from his back door, making it appear the devil had walked through his home, I was gripped with the story.
The novel centers around Sarah DeLaune, whose sister Rachel was murdered several years before. Now Sarah is a tattoo artist, trying to get over a broken relationship, when her ex-lover, Sean, a detective, shows up asking her help in solving a murder. Of course, the reader expects these lovers will get back together while tracking the killer, but Sean has married since he broke up with Sarah, and an angry Sarah isn't letting Sean push his way back into her life.
Soon Sean discovers the recent murders appear to have a resemblance to the murder of Sarah's sister. The devil's cloven footprints are again found around the murder victims. Where has the devil, or whoever is playing devil, been hiding all these years, and why has he returned now? Is he out to kill Sarah also? Or does Sarah know something about her sister's murder she is not telling? Perhaps she knows something even she is not aware she knows. Sarah returns to her father's house to seek answers. In the process, she learns family secrets that shock her, and more violence is committed.
Just when I thought I knew where Amanda Stevens was headed with her chilling ending, the plot would take another twist. Although "The Devil's Footprints" might be a bit too grizzly for some readers, and it is a little longer than it needs to be, I found it difficult to put down until I came to the startling conclusion. I would definitely be interested in reading more of Stevens' novels.
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On the book the "Devils Footprints" I read about 200 books a year and this book is the best one I have read all year. Why? The characters are real and the book moves with ease. AND!!! it keeps you up all night and you do not want to put it down. Shame on who has not gotten this book. It really is good.
Lesa
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Having read Ms Steven's very first book, I fully expected her second novel to be fully entertaining. Upon finishing this book 5 minutes ago, I can say that I was completely blown away! While her very first book had one or two minor flaws to it (mostly with pacing), this book is pretty much perfectly done. The characters are compelling, the plotline is tight & flows well from one scene to the next, & I found myself truly wondering 'whodunit'. While one or two of the elements can be guessed at ahead of time, the main surprises are the ones that take you by surprise.
The story surrounds Sarah DeLaune, a young tattoo artist who is struggling to come to terms with her past as a mysterious killer is murdering young women in a manner similar to that of her dead sister. Mingled into the story is the legend of cloven footprints in the snow, footprints that make their reappearance with the new murders, forcing Sarah to try to remember her haunted past.
Would I recommend this to a friend? Yes! Yes! Yes! Not only would I get the satisfaction of recommending a blossoming author (who I guarantee will become as famous as Patterson, Higgins Clark, or Cornwell), but I'd also get the satisfaction of watching someone tear through a book at the fevered pace with which I went through Stevens's novels.
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