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Just One Look by Harlan Coben

(Read in September) Rating: 3/5 Stars Pub. Date: May 2005 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Format: Paperback, 528pp ISBN: 0451213203 Grace Lawson's life is good one, it hadn't always been but since meeting her husband Jack things have really turned around for her. She and Jack have two beautiful children and a loving and kind husband. One day when an old photograph was placed in with her other photos from a photomat, her life was turned upside down. When her husband saw the photo he pretended to not know the people in the photograph but then takes off without explanation. After being turned down by the police to help find her missing husband, since it looks like he left on his own, she decides to do some investigating on her own for answers and her husband. What she finds shakes up her entire life to the absolute core. With some help from some friends of her present and past, as well as some strangers that have just come into her life she is able to unravel the story but in ...

The Last Child by John Hart

I finished a few books in September but I am way behind on the reviews so my next few reviews are from September. The Last Child by John Hart Rating: 3/5 Stars Pub. Date: March 2010 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Format: Paperback, 432pp ISBN: 0312642369 Alyssa Merrimon went missing a year ago as no good leads were ever found. Johnny, Alyssa's brother, has not given up the hunt for her and continues to search the neighborhoods for signs of Alyssa's captor. Detective Hunt, the cop assigned to Alyssa's case feels responsible for keeping an eye on Johnny and his mother whose lives have been destroyed by the disappearance of Alyssa. When another girl is taken close to the one year anniversary of Alyssa, Johnny is even mor e vigilant to catch the person responsible for both of these disappearances. What Johnny finds in his search puts him in danger and leads the investigation to disturbing results. I found some of the spots in this story to be a little slow but the idea...