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Summary: YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER LAKE CHARLOTTE...
Review: ...a sleepy bedroom community in upstate New York. A community prided on its small town traditions, close-knit families and businesses and respite from urban crime.But IS Lake Charlotte REALLY as idyllic as it seems? The Connollys and other families know that there is a film of algae on Lake Charlotte, obscuring the pure view that residents wish to maintain. Rory Connolly, the protagonist returns home to Lake Charlotte after graduating from Berkeley and traveling around the world. Her brother Kevin has been running the household in Rory's absence and has kept a watchful eye on their mentally ill mother. Sad and psychotic since the death of her husband and youngest daughter, Maura Connolly lives in a shadowy world between mental illness and reality. Her misery is compounded when her oldest daughter, Carleen disappears in the late 1980s along with three other neighborhood girls. Carleen, then 13 is described by all as out of control. Molly, the youngest member of the Connolly family is 13 when Rory returns home. She, like Rory is close to Kevin and she does not really know Rory who is some 10 years her senior. Molly's best friend disappears that summer; old fears and old suspicions are reawakened. Who is kidnapping the girls? What has become of them? Who are possible suspects? A neighbor's husband? A reporter with an agenda? Somebody in the community? A nun who acts as a companion to the severely depressed and delusional Maura? Somebody the Connollys know? The list is indeed a long one. With each kidnapping, another secret pops out like a jack in the box. This excellent book is sure to keep readers riveted to every page. This brilliant, masterfully excuted book is something that is worth reading. The characters are rich and full; the story is taught and compelling. There is no extraneous matter. This book makes you hope Staub will keep writing!
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Summary: BREATH TAKING READ
Review: Lake Charlotte, New York, is a sleepy village in the foot hills of the Adirondack Mountains. It's a place where everyone knows each other, and they don't have to lock their doors -- that is, until strange disappearances start to happen. Then the towns' people don't know who to trust. Kirstin Stafford, a 13-year-old, is the first to vanish without a trace, Allison Myers, a 15-year-old, disappears three weeks later, and Carleen Connolly, a 14-year-old, vanishes a few weeks after her. Now it's 10 years later and Rory Connolly (the sister of Carleen Connolly who disappeared 10 years ago) has returned to Lake Charolotte from Berkley California where she attended college. On the 10th anniversary of the first girl's disappearance, Emily Anghardt vanishes. Why is it starting all over again? Rory wants to find out so she can have some answers about her sister's disappearance. What Rory doesn't know is she is in danger as well as other young girls. The characters are well defined and realistic in the sense that they are not perfect so that the reader can understand why they made the mistakes they did. I thought that I had it all figured out early in the book, but was I dead wrong. ALL THE WAY HOME is a well-told story with a lot of spooky revelations, fantastic amazement, and plenty of thrills and chills to keep you hanging on to every word right up to the breath-taking and astonishing conclusion.
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2000!
Review: My first novel by this amazing author was "Dearly Beloved," one of Wendy Corsi Staub's first novels, what I got at a used bookstore, that is now out-of-print. I absolutely loved it! I then went to the store and bought "Fade to Black." This novel was even better. I read the whole thing in two days. I was on a Wendy Run!! So then I saw "All The Way Home." I bought and devoured it in one day! It was the best one that she wrote. The plot: Four teenage girls mysteriously disappeared from Lake Charlotte, New York, including Carleen Connelly, Rory (the main character's) sister. Rory goes off the college and returns to Lake Charlotte ten years later. While she is back in town she meets Barrett Maitland, Rory finds him attractive and strange at the same time. Then on the anniversary of the first girls disapperance ANOTHER GIRL IS TURNED UP MISSING! Can Rory solve this crime and find out what happened to her sister before she becomes the next victim? WENDY CORSI STAUB IS THE NEXT MARY HIGGINS CLARK IN MY MIND! Keep your eyes open for "The Last To Know," Wendy's next thriller in April 2001!
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Summary: Great mystery!
Review: Only the brave will read this while they are home alone. This is a 'stay-up-all-night' read at it's best. If you like mysteries, this is the story for you. It starts out a little slow, but great twists throughout the story. If you like this book, I recommend 'Gone, But not Forgotten' by Phillip Margolin.
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Summary: Great mystery!
Review: Only the brave will read this while they are home alone. This is a 'stay-up-all-night' read at it's best. If you like mysteries, this is the story for you. It starts out a little slow, but great twists throughout the story. If you like this book, I recommend 'Gone, But not Forgotten' by Phillip Margolin.
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Summary: Chills and Thrills
Review: The mark of a very good book is if you, as the reader, are willing to suspend your disbelief while reading it. Too many things about this book were very annoying to me. First of all, the entire thing is written in present tense. That's acceptable in a short story but definitely not in a novel. Two, she has a two-year-old thinking AND speaking like a six-year-old. Three, she throws so many possible bad guys at you throughout the book that you already know it isn't going to be any of them. It's obviously going to try to be a surprise ending. Four, she has the police missing a vital bit of background information about an individual that no police officer would EVER miss. Last of all, every one of the main and supporting characters was angst-ridden over something and it was nearly all encompassing to each individual. The only "normal" people were side, cardboard characters. It was almost as if the author has no idea how to write about somebody without psychological problems. I read the entire book just to see if it would get better but it didn't. It was very predictable, highly annoying and, yes, I was very UNwilling to suspend my disbelief.
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Summary: ANOTHER GREAT ONE FOR WENDY
Review: This is the 2nd book i've read by Wendy Corsi Staub...She's a super author who keeps you guessing til the last page....Just when you think you have it figured out, she throws you a curve...great read...I'm already into the 3rd book, Fade to Black....another page turner...The Mary Higgens clark of the Millenium (if not better)...
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Summary: All the Way Home
Review: This was a very Gripping Suspense Thriller. I could not put it down. After reading this, I purchased all of the Wendy Corsi Staub books I could find.
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Summary: So good it's scary!
Review: Welcome to Lake Charlotte, a sleepy little town in upstate NY. It's been 10 years since 4 girls mysteriously disappeared without a trace. Rory Connelly, (who's sister Carleen is among the missing) returns home to deal with an aging mother and troubled younger sister. If that weren't enough to deal with, on the 10 year anniversary of the crimes, another girl disappears! Rory soon realizes history is starting to repeat itself and she doesn't know who to trust. This book is truly one of the best suspense books I've ever read, everyone in this book looks guilty! When the real killer is revealed you will be SHOCKED! I also loved the upstate NY setting, since I grew up around that area. Wendy even mentions my hometown of Kingston, NY in this book! Wendy Corsi Staub is now on the top of my "must read list". I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a good mystery.
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Summary: So good it's scary!
Review: Welcome to Lake Charlotte, a sleepy little town in upstate NY. It's been 10 years since 4 girls mysteriously disappeared without a trace. Rory Connelly, (who's sister Carleen is among the missing) returns home to deal with an aging mother and troubled younger sister. If that weren't enough to deal with, on the 10 year anniversary of the crimes, another girl disappears! Rory soon realizes history is starting to repeat itself and she doesn't know who to trust. This book is truly one of the best suspense books I've ever read, everyone in this book looks guilty! When the real killer is revealed you will be SHOCKED! I also loved the upstate NY setting, since I grew up around that area. Wendy even mentions my hometown of Kingston, NY in this book! Wendy Corsi Staub is now on the top of my "must read list". I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a good mystery.
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