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| Sketching Evil | 
 enlarge | Author: Donna Anders
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (13 reviews)
Sales Rank: 224203
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 1416514872
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781416514879
ASIN: 1416514872
Publication Date: November 27, 2007
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Product Description
Where do you go when nowhere is safe?
From the author of Death Waits for You, which Ann Rule
called "a suspense-filled exercise in terror," comes a new
novel of a woman facing a menacing danger she cannot
escape no matter where she runs.
When an attempted rape in her city apartment leaves artist Abby Carter deeply shaken, she flees to the beautiful Victorian house she recently inherited in a tiny town on the upper Hhudson River. But rumors of ghosts from generations past, and an unsolved murder, are unsettling...while handsome local homicide detective Bud Williams investigates a brand-new rash of violent crime. Empathy with a terrified victim leads Abby to use her artistic skills to capture the face of a local serial rapist. But when the portrait leads to an arrest, Abby starts receiving threats and anonymous phone calls, and the house she believed to be a refuge becomes instead a place from her worst nightmare. Bud vows to protect her, but Abby knows she must look into the face of evil herself, because failure could mean her life.
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 Cheesy dialogue!! OMG! August 16, 2008
I really wanted to like this one because it includes everything I love in a good mystery--an old house, antiques, secret passages,... I forced myself to read & then SKIM the remainder of the book. I'm a novice & I think I could have written better. (Sorry, Ms. Anders.) Don't bother with this one. Try Wendi Corsi Staub's thrillers. Also I love the modern-day gothic novel entitled 1 Ragged Ridge Road.
 Fast Paced Suspense! March 6, 2008
Donna Anders has written another best-seller that you can't put down! I thought I had it all figured out until the surprise ending! I read half of this book in the waiting room of a doctor's office and didn't even mind when the doctor had an emergency and kept me waiting for nearly three hours! I was lost in this wonderful book and didn't notice the time slipping by. SKETCHING EVIL is a great book!
Not the worst book I ever read... March 5, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
...but close to it. I'm almost embarassed to admit it, but I'm writing this review before finishing the book because I'm not sure I can force myself to go on. I am surprised that it is so bad, as I purchased it after reading one of the author's other titles which, although a bit clumsy, was enjoyable. This one, however, was either rushed to publication, or its editor was on vacation. None of the characters behaved consistently, or within character. The detective, for instance, wouldn't last long with his unprofessional behavior on the job and the main character, Abby, was by turns mealymouthed when she could/should have clued in and rude and sharp for no apparent reason except that the author seemed to think it served a purpose. All of the dialogue was excrutiatingly stiff (too many examples to pick just one, but see every exchange between characters) and the author repeatedly used dialogue to patronize the reader and explain something that we all know (the Underground Railroad isn't a train that runs underground...OMG!). I didn't need to be reminded once, twice or even three and four times in a chapter that the town, Carterville, was named after the family of the main character, Abby "Carter"...get it, and that she was now the sole survivor and would be forced to continue the line by keeping the house and marrying and having children...hello, 21st century here!? She was TSTL and I found myself hoping by about a third of the way through the book that we would see a swift end to her, alas, not to be. Why do authors think that readers will care about a main character who live their lives with no friends in the world except the gorgeous, brilliant, charismatic hero who can't help but fall in love with them...as far as I'm concerned, if a character can return to the small town she grew up in (she's only 28 for heavens sake, all her classmates can't be dead yet!) and doesn't have one friend left there, or never made any to begin with, why should I care if she survives the stalker/rapist/murderer that's after her? Seems I don't. I've already spent too much time on this book, so I'm moving on. Unless you have a burning need to read every book an author pens, skip this one so that you'll be willing to read any other of her books you come across. I won't.
 THE WORST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ! March 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have read all of Donna Anders books and it saddens me to write this review. This book was so bad I could not wait to get through it. I almost put it down on many occasions. The main character Abby was just plain dumb and towards the end I was hoping she would bite the big one. The plot was implausible.What homicide detective is going to watch your house 24-7 after a murder, with no threats against you?? If I had to read "Jeez Abby"(in just about every chapter) one more time I was going to scream. I would like to rate this book 0 stars but that is not an option. Save your $$ and skip this one!
The only one who can't see whodunit is the dippy heroine February 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a disappointment this was. The characters are cliched and the dialogue is forced. Abby is as cutesy/naive as they come, and seriously needs to pick up the clue phone.
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