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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780399154614
ISBN number: 0399154612
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 416
Printing Date: April 01, 2008
Publishing house: Putnam Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 77966
Studio: Putnam Adult
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In the newest novel from New York Times-bestselling author Karen Robards, a feisty female attorney's past comes back to haunt her.
One cold November night when Kat White was fifteen years old, she and some friends held up a convenience store. In the heat of the moment, one of the others shot and killed an off-duty cop moonlighting as a security guard. Kat and her pals fled the scene in a panic, and no one was caught.
Sixteen years later, Kat-now Kate-has built a new life for herself. Now a single mom with an eight-year-old son, she works as a prosecutor in the Philadelphia DA's office. But her dark past rears its head when she walks into court one day and discovers that she is to prosecute Mario Castellanos, one of her friends from that terrible night.
Kate is in a bind: even though Mario was the one who probably did commit the crime, he's counting on Kate to make sure he's not convicted. If she convinces the judge of his guilt, he'll claim that she was the one who killed the off-duty cop. Before real despair sets in, Mario is found dead-in her apartment, and with her pistol. When homicide detective Tom Braga shows up to investigate the murder, Kate is far from relieved; the two have clashed since she started working for the prosecutor's office. But when another man who knows the secret of Kate's past gets involved in the investigation, she learns that her life-and her son's-are in danger. Frantic, she realizes that she has nowhere to turn. Except, maybe, to Tom . . .
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I was disappointed by this installment by Karen Robards. I read "Bait" and loved it and "Vanished" and thought it was okay. Kate seems very much like the main character that was in th book "Vanished", but perhaps a little less annoying. Married at 19, no family, has a child, no father around and manages to make it though law school while raising and infant with no family help at all. Also, it doesn't even seem that Kate has any friends.
Tom is a likeable cop that seems to have protective instincts. In general, I liked him as a character, as well as I liked his partner.
The story centers around Kate getting caught in a courtroom hostage situation where she ends up being blackmailed because of her checkered past. Thoughout almost the entire story, she lies to Tom. She does so much, you actually find yourself sympathizing with Tom, not Kate.
The story just went on and on and Kate's chest was always tighning, stomach twisting into knots, etc. Blah Blah Blah. I found the relationship between Kate and Tom so unbelievable since there were so many lies told and it went on for so long. The story seemed to take forever to develop and it just didn't ring true.
The story had lots of potential, but the string of lies was just drawn out for too long and it made it incredibly dull. I saw nothing between Kate and Tom other than a physical attraction.
Joyce Bean reads the audio version of this book and I have to say, she does deliver on that. She's one of my favorite audio readers and didn't disappoint me there.
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Kitty Kat who becomes Kate should have been named Scaredy Kat. From the very start of this book through the end, Kate is frightened and the more frightened she becomes the less common sense she seems to show.
In a regular romance book (not romantic suspense) this character would probably make a good heroine. When not frightened she seems to be able to pursue her goals, be a great mother, and keep her life on track. Unfortunately we see very little of that Kate in this book and the hero of the book sees even less. I have absolutely no idea why he would like her. The author says that he thinks she's brave, yet there is absolutely no reason for him to think so. The woman in this book freezes when she should act, and acts stupidly whenever she is frightened. Every time a new crisis occurs I got to imagining the worst way she could behave and that's what she did almost in all cases.
This is shown in even worse light when every other person in the book, including her 9 year old son can think better under pressure than she. The boy says at one point to the hero that it is a relief to have another man help take care of her, and unfortunately he's speaking the truth.
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I got to about page 60 and give up. It's almost ALL interior dialogue and boring as hell. If Kat said one more time, "I'm a single mother!!!!" I thought I'd throw up. Did she really think criminals would say, oh, holy mother, sorry, you're fee to go? So she reproduced, big deal. I agree with all the other negative reviews. She was TSTL.
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A big disappointment for me. It's the very first book I've read by this author. I was looking for a mystery, instead got a cheap Harlequin romance. Fortunately, it was a library book, so at least I didn't spend any money on the matter. I won't be reading any more of her work!
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I listened to the audio publication of this book. I really liked the story at the beginning (after "Kitty Kat" became "Kate"), but there were way too many "What?" moments, especially at the end, that the book ended up being a disappointment for me. I did like Kate and Tom and their romance and Ben's relationship with his mom was sweet. I am a lawyer so I had to suspend my logic for much of the book, especially when the courtroom massacre at the beginning is not treated like the HUGE news event it would be. Kate, a hostage who supposedly has heroically escaped her captor, has newspeople hounding her for only 1-2 days? Not likely. Also, Kate is a prosecutor and it is incredibly hard to believe that the potential disclosure of a juvenile crime in which she was not even involved would scare her so much that she would put her son's life at risk. I kept waiting for the "BIG TASK" that for some unexplained reason, Kate is seemingly the only person able to accomplish. What a letdown when that comes to light and **SPOILER ALERT** a decoy is able to do it for Kate at the last minute. The confrontation scene at the end made me laugh out loud. We get an uncoerced confession by the bad guy and it all gets wrapped up neatly as though the author's publication deadline was looming and she had to get the book done. I thought the beginning of the story had a lot of promise and it was not fulfilled for this reader.
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