Picture Perfect

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Summary: Stained Window
Review: Fern Michaels has written many wonderful novels, but this one will win new readers. Brimming with memorable characters fairly jumping from the pages of this novel, leaving us sorry to be through.

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Summary: WOW! Wonderful!
Review: Picture Perfect and Fern Michaels don't disappoint you with this one. Settle down for the day and enjoy another great one!

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Summary: fine thriller
Review: The FBI provides protection to murder witness Montclair College Professor Andrew Ryan from a drug cartel that killed a student Jason Forbes. While Andrew and his spouse Sara head to Florida, her sister Lorrie takes their seven years old son Davey camping. Davy looks forward to the trip because his aunt allows his freedom to be himself while his mother disapproves of him perhaps because of his hemophiliac condition.

Cudge Balog kills his best friend Lenny Lombardi when the man tries to collect a debt. Cudge and his girlfriend Elva St. John start to bury the body at the Wild Adventure Campground, but Davey sees them. Cudge goes after the child who flees. Lorrie, worried that her nephew is missing calls the police. FBI Agent Stuart Sanders, who has been assigned to the Ryan family, arrives at the campgrounds. He and Lorrie already attracted to one another, work together to rescue a child in need of daily medicine for his condition.

The suspense is very high as the clock ticks away not just because of the Cudge factor but also because of the needed dose of medication. Fern Michaels' fans will appreciate the lead duet though they are cut out of the hero handbook pro-am teaming and the little boy starving for affection, but hiss at the interesting tundra-like mother (who is conveniently eliminated) and the father who acquiesces to all her demands at the cost of their child's welfare. Cudge is a dumb thug while Elva, whose name she took in homage to Elvis, is frightened of him. Quite different from the Texas-Kentucky-Vegas triangle, Ms. Michaels' readers will enjoy this thriller.

Harriet Klausner



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Summary: Follow The Chase
Review: This book is so interesting you can't put it down. Davey is a wonderful, sweet and caring child and unfortunately his parents leave much to be desired.
Sara and Andrew have to go to Florida and Daveys Aunt Lorrie is going to take him on a much anticpated camping trip.The action is fast paced and the story is interesting.
Fern Michael is at her best once again this book is sure to be a winner like most of her other books.

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Summary: My first Fern Michaels book...ehhh...not sure
Review: This was my first Fern Michaels book. I saw it on the shelf and had just finished Trace by Patricia Cornwell. I found Picture Perfect to be an ok read. For my first book from this author, I am not sure if I will seek out more or not. Depends on if the dust jacket sounds good. I felt the book built the characters somewhat but the ending was anticlimatic and too abrupt. The District Attorney angle was built too late in the game and who left the answering machine message ransom? It really just didnt all pan out in the end. I felt the ending was tied up too quickly without letting us see and feel all the steps up to the ending...the ending was probably close to what every reader hoped and expected to happen. Just the details were not too clear and not all threads were tied.