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Summary: It'll keep you guessing...
Review: Ginny Shapiro gets the shock of her life when she realizes that six out of the seven girls that were in the gifted class at age six are dead of suicide after receiving mysterious phone calls. Most of the women were happy, most especially her close friend Georgia who embraced God and became Sister Mary Theresa. When she finds out how Georgia died, and receives a package from her after she died, Ginny knew that she couldn't stay put. On the run from an unknown assaliant, Ginny has no one, until Sullivan Dean comes to her rescue.Agent Sully Dean is dealing with his own guilt. Knowing Georgia since she was in pigtails, he was more than happy for her when she made her decision to become a nun. When he got her package too late to help, he knew that the one thing that he could do to honor her memory was to protect her friend, Ginny. What he doesn't expect is the complexity of the case, nor his feelings for Ginny. Storm Warning has a very interesting story line, but the romance between the two seemed to fall flat. There was a little too much drama involved with an incident that happened half way through the book, which I think the book could have done with out. It was after days that they fell in love, but they just didn't seem to click as most authors make their characters click. I enjoyed the suspense and the ending was very surprising and a lot disturbing.
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Summary: It'll keep you guessing...
Review: Ginny Shapiro gets the shock of her life when she realizes that six out of the seven girls that were in the gifted class at age six are dead of suicide after receiving mysterious phone calls. Most of the women were happy, most especially her close friend Georgia who embraced God and became Sister Mary Theresa. When she finds out how Georgia died, and receives a package from her after she died, Ginny knew that she couldn't stay put. On the run from an unknown assaliant, Ginny has no one, until Sullivan Dean comes to her rescue. Agent Sully Dean is dealing with his own guilt. Knowing Georgia since she was in pigtails, he was more than happy for her when she made her decision to become a nun. When he got her package too late to help, he knew that the one thing that he could do to honor her memory was to protect her friend, Ginny. What he doesn't expect is the complexity of the case, nor his feelings for Ginny. Storm Warning has a very interesting story line, but the romance between the two seemed to fall flat. There was a little too much drama involved with an incident that happened half way through the book, which I think the book could have done with out. It was after days that they fell in love, but they just didn't seem to click as most authors make their characters click. I enjoyed the suspense and the ending was very surprising and a lot disturbing.
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Summary: A fast, compelling story
Review: I found this book in a deli on my way to the beach. I didn't see any reviews on the jacket, but thought it looked interesting . . . and got a great surprise. It's very, very suspenseful, and cleverly plotted, with twists right up to the end. It's much, much better than a lot of recent books that have gotten far more hype. I wish I was a powerful literary agent -- I'd swoop in and send Dinah McCall to the moon. She's got talent and style.
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Summary: Storm Warning
Review: I really loved this book. Ms McCall has done it again. I fell in love with Sully and Ginny, and some of the dialogue between the two. Not to mention when Sully ran in to protect her after his encounter out at the car. This was an A-1 book. You will not be disappointed. And the rabbit sandwiches, delightful. Dan and Franklin great too. Oh yes and don't forget the hospital scene. I fell in love with Sullivan Dean.
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Summary: Highly Disappointed
Review: I was looking forward to this book. The plot sounded interesting, and I am a great fan of Dinah McCall. To say I was disappointed is an understatement. Is this the same women who wrote Jackson Rule and Dreamcatcher??? The romance was forced, and almost like an afterthought. The part of the book about the fishing camp had nothing to do with the main plot, and was distracting to the story line. This book, in my opinion, was poorly written. I expected much better from an author with Ms. McCall's experience. If you want to read this book, wait until it comes to your library.
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Summary: Thunder, trance and murder -- Very highly recommended
Review: Six first graders shared a gifted class more than twenty years ago, a class that was disbanded when a fire destroyed the school. Now someone is making ominous calls to those grown women in which the sound of thunder and chimes activate a time bomb. As children and husbands are left abandoned, as tragic suicides that appear without motive add up, only Ginny Shapiro still lives. Resourceful, intrepid and fearsome, Ginny uses her reporting skills begin to uncover the secrets of the past that reside somewhere beyond memory. Information about the rash of suicides, previously seemingly unconnected, FBI agent Sullivan Dean too late to save the others. As he tracks Ginny to her apartment, only to be too late to catch her, Sullivan feels an immediate connection to the woman in the photograph -- a connection that only intensifies as he follows her to an isolated fishing cabin far from phones. But when a freak connection with an unconnected danger threatens Ginny, Sullivan risks all to protect her and save her from the savage dangers that lurk. While the intensity of the romance of the novel creates a pleasant counterpart to the intensity of the danger, it is the suspenseful elements that make STORM WARNING a terrific read. With flair the dramatic and unexpected, author Dinah McCall delivers a combination of police procedural with strong psychological overtones. Remarkable complexity and surprising conclusion result in ominous suspense that comes very highly recommended.
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Summary: This author writes great romantic suspense
Review: Six seemingly well-adjusted women including a nun commit suicide following a phone call. Before Sister Mary dies, she sees the link between herself and the other students from the gifted class they all belonged to years ago. She sends a package to the other remaining survivor St. Louis reporter Virginia "Ginny" Shapiro and to her brother's best friend, FBI agent Sullivan Dean before she kills herself too. Ginny grasps what her friend's warning means and flees into the night. Sullivan believes that in spite of a reliable witness, somehow an unknown assailant killed Sister Mary. He vows to protect Ginny from the serial killer and follows her paper trail to Tallahatchie River Landing, Mississippi. As they work together, Ginny and Sullivan fall in love, but how can they keep her safe when a murderer is just a phone call away? STORM WARNING is an exciting romantic suspense novel that starts off with six unexplained suicides before changing into a romantic police procedural with psychological overtones. Readers will find Ginny and Sullivan to be charming characters with a strong support cast augmenting the tension. Although a major red herring seems contrived and unnecessary, this well written novel never eases up on the throttle as Dinah McCall shows why she is a best selling author. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: A quick, easy read.
Review: STORM WARNING has all the elements of great romantic suspense: a strong yet vulnerable heroine, the FBI agent determined to protect her, and events that take us around the country. The problems start, however, when it comes to putting it all together and making everything work. The action drags miserably in places, and seems cobbled together in others. I almost didn't make it past the opening pages where five women were introduced and subsequently died terrible deaths just to set the action in place. Couldn't the author have summed up a little? If I had to put my finger on what is so wrong about this book, it would be the lack of respect for the reader. I hate to get the feeling when reading a book that the proper time and thought did not go into it. I am not rich, and when I spend my money on a book, it is like entering into an agreement with the author. But sometimes, as in this case, the book seems churned out just for profit. I felt suckered. I mean really, this book has a character in Orlando walking from his cottage to a pier over the Atlantic Ocean. That must have been some walk for the eighty-three-year-old man, considering that Orlando is in the Florida interior! The ultimate motivation revealed at the end of the novel for the deaths of the women was highly unsatisfactory. It raised more questions than it answered. Reading this book is an exercise in filling in the blanks and imagining what might have been.
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Summary: Excellent Premise, Poor Follow-through
Review: STORM WARNING has all the elements of great romantic suspense: a strong yet vulnerable heroine, the FBI agent determined to protect her, and events that take us around the country. The problems start, however, when it comes to putting it all together and making everything work. The action drags miserably in places, and seems cobbled together in others. I almost didn't make it past the opening pages where five women were introduced and subsequently died terrible deaths just to set the action in place. Couldn't the author have summed up a little? If I had to put my finger on what is so wrong about this book, it would be the lack of respect for the reader. I hate to get the feeling when reading a book that the proper time and thought did not go into it. I am not rich, and when I spend my money on a book, it is like entering into an agreement with the author. But sometimes, as in this case, the book seems churned out just for profit. I felt suckered. I mean really, this book has a character in Orlando walking from his cottage to a pier over the Atlantic Ocean. That must have been some walk for the eighty-three-year-old man, considering that Orlando is in the Florida interior! The ultimate motivation revealed at the end of the novel for the deaths of the women was highly unsatisfactory. It raised more questions than it answered. Reading this book is an exercise in filling in the blanks and imagining what might have been.
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Summary: Storm Warning--Don't Take Shelter!
Review: The back of the book reads: "The phone rings. She picks up, but no one is there. She hears music and the sound of thunder. She hangs up in a trance. Minutes later, she is dead." Sounds good intriguing, doesn't it? Seven little girls were placed in a gifted class at an exclusive school. They only went one hour a week. Years later, they begin to die by suicide, one by one until only one is left. Ginny Shapiro is the one alive and she's running for her life. Thanks to Sister Mary Teresa, the sixth victim, she knows someone is after her and it's all connected to a phone call. Regardless of what happens, she can't answer the phone. FBI agent Sullivan Dean, a friend of Sister Mary Teresa, tracks her down. Sister Mary Teresa had tried to contact Sullivan. He wasn't available so she sent him all the information she had found out about the other five victims, the same little girls who were in her gifted class, but he received the information too late. Now in memory of his friend, he is bound and determined to find Ginny and protect her from the same fate. This book had the promise of being a great romantic suspense thriller; yet it fell flat on its face. The author, Dinah McCall tried to incorporate suspense and romance into her plot. She should have stuck with one and left the other alone. The book starts out full of suspense. I was immediately drawn into the story. However, when Ms. McCall started incorporating the romance angle, the whole story fell flat. It is almost like she had to write so many pages for publications. While I could see the point of the story about the doctor's family, I fail to see the need for the plot concerning the fishing camp. To me it took away from the plausibility of the plot. Final opinion, Storm Warning is ok for a lazy afternoon read. You can put it down and come back to it. While the story isn't horrible, it's not so great that you can't bear to be away from it without knowing the ending. If I could do it over, while I would still read the book, I think I would have been better off borrowing it from a friend or picking it up at a used books store.
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