A Candidate for Murder [Hardcover]

Joan Lowery Nixon (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 210 pages
• Publisher: Demco Media (February 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0606008152
• ISBN-13: 978-0606008150
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,851,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An edge of your seat novel!, January 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: A Candidate for Murder (Paperback)

When Cary's father announces he'll be running for governer of Texas, she knows she'll be the center of attention. But when she starts getting followed in her car and getting calls in the middle of the night, she begins to realize this sort of thing does not fit in with the tasks of being the governers daughter. After some careful research with her reporter friend, she has the suspects narrowed down to a few people. She also remembers over hearing what may have been a private conversation.Soon she is almost certain who her stalker is. She just doesn't know what to do about it. What she desides to do will keep you at the edge of you seat for the rest of the book. The book had a series of creepy event that eventually lead up to a great ending. I liked the book because it was full suspence and it was really hard to put down. I would recomend it to anyone that likes mysery or suspense. You should definatly read it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Caught my attention, but not Joan Lowry Nixon's best..., March 16, 2004

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Willow (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Candidate for Murder (Paperback)

A Candidate for Murder includes everything a good teen book needs - romance, humor, politics, and mystery.

The story starts off with Cary trying to escape from a friend at a party. He kept taking pictures of her, following her, etc. and she decided to go outside for a breath of fresh air. When she was out on the terrace, she heard something that she never expected. She heard voices - not just any voices, pretty creepy sounding voices. And she heard one of them say "...he's gone, up the creek...his nosiness..." She didn't think anything of it, but once the voices found out that she was listening to them, she gets in trouble. Cary feels that she's being watched/stalked, but nobody believes her, until some seriously scary stuff starts to happen.

This book is pretty good. I'm a huge fan of Joan Lowry Nixon, and this is a good book...but it's not her best. I recommend it to fans of her books, but not to people that want to get introduced to a new author (for you guys, I recommend her book 'Spirit Seeker').

Overall grade - B

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I've seen better, October 8, 2000

A Kid's Review

This review is from: A Candidate for Murder (Paperback)

I have read many of Nixon's books, and this one just wasn't that great. The book was full of mystery, but it wasn't very exciting and was not very interesting. The characters were kind of dull. I didn't enjoy this book very much. If you want a good book by Joan Lowery Nixon, try "Whispers From The Dead," "The Seance," "The Other Side Of Dark," or "Secret, Silent, Screams."