Shattered
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- ISBN13: 9780399156274
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Secret, treachery, and a mysterious family tree history plague the heroine in the latest novel from New York Times-bestselling leader Karen Robards.
The past is never over. It just gets dusty.
Lisa Shewmaker was a rising star in a prestigious law firm in Lexington, Kentucky; that is, until the firm went bankrupt and she lost her job. With an ailing mother to care for, Lisa takes the first position she can find: research assistant to District Attorney Scott Buchanan. Scott is as disagreeable as he is sexy, and Lisa suspects the only reason she got the job is because of her privileged upbringing as the daughter of a wealthy federal judge.
While reviewing cold cases in the Fayette County courthouse, a particularly thick manila envelope draws Lisa’s attention. The details of the case are engrossing: An entire family tree-father, mother, and two children-disappeared more than twenty-eight years ago. Except that’s not all: The mother in the photo could have been Lisa’s twin, and the kid in the picture bears an mysterious resemblance to Lisa herself. Before Lisa can learn more about her past, a series of catastrophes strike close to home. Lisa confides in Scott, and their relationship develops into something completely different. Together Lisa and Scott unravel a terrifying web of criminal relations that could ruin the very fabric of Lisa’s life-if she lives long enough, that is.
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I really reflect Robards is way past the writing stage.. I am not a writer and even I can do better than this. Fell asleep reading it and was not even tired.. Now thats how terrible it is. Could not or will not bother to end it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
really loved this. lisa and scott were a fantastic couple. lots of chemistry and suspense.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Having lost her position at a law firm that went bankrupt, Lisa Grant) leaves Lexington, Kentucky to go home to the family tree horse ranch Grayson Springs. Lisa does not feel terrible about losing her job as she needs to care for her mom who is dying from ALS.
Lisa obtains work at the Fayette County District Attorney’s office effective as a research assistant to DA Scott Buchanan, whom she once loved. His attitude makes her realize he hired her under pressure due to her relations to her mom. Lisa looks into the files of a cold case in which Michael and Angela Garcia and their two children (Tony and Marisa) vanished lacking a trace in 1981. But, the case shakes her to her bone marrow when she sees the picture of Marisa and a doll the child clings to; she is looking at herself as a small girl and the doll is identical to one she had. Her inquiry with Scott’s help turns hideous when an arsonist tries to kill her and her mom
This is a quick-paced officially authorized thriller that after a prologue has Scott cursing out Lisa for failing to do her job; setting the tone of their relationship. The action never slows down as a name is out to harm Lisa and her mom although the younger has no thought why. Although the climax is over the top of Black Mountain with an incredulous denouement, fans will delight in Karen Robards taut romantic suspense.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Could not judge this was a Karen Robards, I have read nearly everthing else she has done and loved them all, this is just horrible!!! Sentences too long, characters names are radomly changed than changed back so that you don’t know who is who, it makes it hard to get into the tale when you have to keep re-reading just to see which character is which.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
It is hard to judge that Karen Robards wrote this. I like every book she has written, until this one.
The tale line is really very excellent, and at times I was riveted. There were some tense moments. But,
the writing is horrible. The sentences are so long that by the time you get to the end, you have to look
back at the beginning to see how the sentence ongoing. There are way too many commas and unbelievably copious hyphens. On the first page of Chapter One:
“He stood behind his battered metal desk–no expensive mahogany for this district attorney, the blue-collar man’s
friend!–glaring at her out of light blue eyes that were, on this Tuesday morning, slightly bloodshot, as though he’d
tied one on the night before or, more probably, though she despised to admit it, been effective until the wee hours.”
What?!? This is not an exception; this is the norm for the entire book. In fact, it gets much worse. Some sentences even had the addition of parentheses thrown in. It was exhausting to read and re-read these run-on sentences. It really took away from the plot.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5