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(More customer reviews)Share No Secrets is a fast paced suspense that is centered around the town's hotel, La Belle Riviere. Some of the locals believe that the hotel is haunted but, can that explain all the mysterious events that seem to surround the town's grandest hotel?
After famous model, Julianna Brent's body is found by her best friend Adrienne Reynolds and Adrienne's daughter in the closed down hotel, it seems that danger isn't far behind. Adrienne is still reeling from the horrifying discovery of finding her best friend murdered when she figures out her own life may be in danger and learns that everyone has a secret. But is it too late to protect herself and keep her daughter, Skye, safe.
Carlene Thompson has created an action filled read with plenty of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the very end! This story is highly detailed with an array of in depth characters that are smart, funny and engaging. I felt that Ms. Thompson truly captured the feel of small town life and made you care about the characters she created.
Share No Secrets is one of the best stories this reader has picked up in a long time and I highly recommend it for anyone who's looking for a book that they can't put down.
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Along the banks of the Ohio River, the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, has been the home of quiet pleasures and safety for Adrienne Reynolds and her fourteen-year-old daughter Skye since the death of Adrienne's husband four years ago.Their sense of safety is shattered, however, when Adrienne and Skye find the body of one of Adrienne's best friends, Julianna, in a once-elegant, now abandoned hotel named La Belle Riviere.La Belle has a long history of misfortunes, but Julianna's murder is the most gruesome.Evidence indicates Julianna that had a secret lover whom she met regularly in the hotel, and who could have been with her in her final moments.The only person who knows this lover's identity is the hotel caretaker, Claude Duncan.But Claude is quickly silenced-drugged and burned to death in his small cottage on the grounds of La Belle the night after Julianna's death.One by one, people close to Adrienne are brutally murdered, and it looks as though she and Skye are the next targets of a fierce killer with a shocking secret.

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Hotels Like Houses Review

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(More customer reviews)These are predominantly love poems, of one sort or another, some disappointed, some enthusiastic. The overwhelming majority are pulled off with wit and panache, some are perfect anthology pieces which should be around for a good while....The difference lies in the fact that where, for instance, Wendy Cope's humour is underlain with grief, Sophie Hannah's project reveals itself as you go further into the book to be one of all but metaphysical, ethical exploration, and her metronomic heart is that of a scientist, weighing probabilities, possibilities. This book moves from an account of how certain lovers DID behave to how they SHOULD behave, to a questioning and analysis of possibilities of emotion. In this the ruling spirit is one of wit and common sense, and beneath the homey and day-to-day properties of her stage I think she is related to those seventeenth century courtiers whose loves were always transacted in a world of costs, odds, likelihoods. ...There are occasional poems about craft, about the tunneler from prison camp who does not want to give up the tunnel merely because of liberation, and the occasional more opaque and open-ended moral piece like "The Man Who Wouldn't Share His Garden with a Wolf", and if I saw a flaw to point to it would be that Hannah's talent seems at this point to be (as Kafka noted of himself on his death-bed) "still going in two directions at once" - there are the immensely polished and ready to lap up at one reading/hearing tour de forces and then there are quieter, less certain, more exploratory and, perhaps, more thoughtful pieces - but the steady canter of the polished pieces makes one's ear less inclined to stop and re-adjust to the stranger music - it is as if John Lennon suddenly went from "She Loves You" to "Imagine" in one breath (and I don't know that Hannah is that good, I'm just drawing an analogy). I don't believe she'll have to choose between the two manners but, for me at least, the collection could have been arranged to better highlight the odder pieces, which are probably her future avenue of growth, the escape route should delivering what's expected of her become oppressive.
The other criticism is that her language, while finely hewn, is transparent - I'm not sure if I'll recall a phrase that I could use to define some of my own emotions when next I am in one of the situations she describes. (Exception: "when his back turned in the bed makes one bed feel like two" stuck in my mind.) So her metaphors are apt and incisive, her patter funny, her intelligence unceasing and her experiments thoughtful - there's no knowing where she might go from here.

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This collection provides a range of romantic ironies. Sophie Hannah's poems move beyond satire to the heart of modern matter: loves, lusts, losses, and the foibles of contemporary life.

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