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| In All the Wrong Places | 
 enlarge | Author: Donna Anders
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (23 reviews)
Sales Rank: 796404
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4 x 1.4
ISBN: 0743427297
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780743427296
ASIN: 0743427297
Publication Date: December 1, 2002
Release Date: November 26, 2002
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Product Description
Hailed by Ann Rule as "one of the masters of the kind of suspense that goes beyond stark terror," Donna Anders returns with an electrifying thriller about a woman whose fame attracts a fan's murderous attention.... Home-shopping fans everywhere adore Carolyn Langdon: she's the beautiful, outgoing hostess of the Atlanta-based National Neighborhood Network. Gifted with a perfect look and a vivacious on-air personality, her phenomenal success is owed to one simple thing: her fans love the way she shares her life stories, and how she makes them feel like her friends. But Carolyn may have shared too much. She's receiving strange phone calls at home, and has the feeling that she is being watched wherever she goes. After a series of unsettling and frightening coincidences push her to the edge of paranoia, Carolyn realizes that someone out there wants much more of her than she's willing to give. And if she cannot be had, she most certainly can be killed....
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nice thriller for a rainy night August 21, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have read several thrillers by Donna Anders. Reviewers frequently criticize her books, saying that they are like a Lifetime movie. This is true, but sometimes you just like to lock the doors, check in the closet and under the bed, and settle down to read a scary book, and aren't looking for a literary experience. "In All the Wrong Places" is just the kind of book I like to read on a rainy night around Halloween time. Viewers of QVC should really enjoy this book, because the main character is the host of a shopping channel. I just finished reading a thriller by Mary Higgins Clark, and found that the character development, plot, and fright level was not nearly as good as Donna Anders' books. If you want to be scared, this book is a great choice!
 Good Filler January 23, 2006
This book is a good filler - - a good book for a plane trip or to pass the time. There is nothing standout wrong with the book, the basic storyline is good, if it is a bit unbelievable when all is revealed at the end. The premise is that a single career woman is being watched and stalked by an "admirer" who sees her on t.v. Sure, that story has been done before and it certainly could have been an edge of your seat thriller. The biggest problems with the book? Two things - - first, as the stalker/watcher was immediately evident from the time the character was introduced, the "whodunit" element of the book was lacking and therefore, it wasn't as suspenseful and/or scary as it could have been. Secondly, the heroine. As much as I wanted to like Carolyn, and did at points in the book, I also found it aggravating that a professional career woman as she was could be as ignorant and foolish. I don't think that a single career woman who lived alone and was receiving threatening phone calls, correspondences, etc. would do something as cliche as walk into her house at night, alone, after an intruder has been there, or walk into a dark parking lot at night, alone, after months of this stalking.
That aside, the book was a quick read and although the ending was neat and tidy and predictable, it gives the reader the ending you want.
 Fast Read. Pretty Predictable. August 1, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read this book within a few hours. It was an extremely fast read and also a very predictable ending. I wouldn't say it was suspenseful...just a fast read.
 Oh so agonizingly slow October 8, 2004
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Sorry Ms. Anders. I just couldn't get through it. I got to page 100 and was ready to pull my hair out with the slow pace and the flat, two-dimensional feel of the characters. The story seemed forced at times and it was all I could do not to scream.
And come on, this is a woman living alone and she just ignores all the signs that people have been in her house? No self-respecting woman living alone would be so careless - and not immediately call a cop friend to get some reassurance. From the parts I skimmed over, it appears Carolyn finally got her game on, except for the marriage.
Since I figured out "who done it" pretty quickly, I just skipped to the end to see if the led heroine finally got her stuff together. Thankfully, she did,but not in time to save my sanity.
So far, so slow... October 5, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I guess I shouldn't rate this book so early, seeing as how I'm only on about Chapter 5, but MAN, is this book SLOW!! I've read such great reviews on this book (with just a couple of bad ones) and so far, I can't imagine how this slow-starter can be good!! Plus, it's so much LONGER than 'average' who-dun-it books. I will continue to drag thru this book, just out of curiousity if it gets any better/easier to read!!!
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