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A Candidate for Murder

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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!

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

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."

This is one of the best books that I have ever read. It is exciting and has a great ending. A Candidate for Murder is about a girl named Cary, whose father is running for governor of Texas. Cary knows that her life will become more hectic but she has no idea to what extent. Soon she starts to get creepy phone calls in the middle of the night, a car follows her and she realizes someone is trying to kill her! Someone is definitely stalking her but why, and who?

Another Joan Lowery Nixon book, they only seem to advance. Hate reading? Nixon makes sure you learn to love it! She's entertaining and at the same time thrilling. I've read two of her other books such as The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore and Secret, Silent Screams and found them both spectacular! A Candidate for Murder was very fast pace, never dragging. Every time I picked the book up it was like a thriller roller coaster ride that I couldn't get off till I make it to the end. Nixon makes it so that you almost feel like your one of the characters, which leaves your heart racing. I really enjoyed reading this book. No wonder she's a Four-Time Edgar Award Winner who is always at her best!

If you like mystery and suspence you should read the book called A Candidate for Murder by Joan Lowery Nixon. It is about a young 16 year old girl, Cary Amberson, who's father is running for governor of Texas. So, after she recieved some rather scary phone calls from a stranger she never heard of , the police say it is just from all the publicity their family is getting. She knows it is something more dangerous than just some prank phone calls, so she tries to figure out the whole story about the strange things that have been going on.
I think this was a really good book because you really didn't know what was going to happen next. There were a lot of twists and turns in the book, and I could really relate to the main character. She did most of the stuff that I would have done. But, some parts were kind of hard to understand, so you had to read it carefully. Read this book and see how Cary deals with her father running for governor, and the almost freaky phone calls she starts to get.

It began in Texas, on a hot summer day where a sixteen-year-old girl named Cary was excited to help her father run for governor. Cary's father made an announcement at city hall saying he'll be running for governer of Texas, Cary realized that she'd be the center of attention. But when she notice that she was being followed by an unknown person and receiving phone calls in the middle of the night she began to realize these things do not fit with being the governers daughter. After the incident happened she had realized something was wrong, she had her friends help look for suspects, she has the suspects narrowed down to a few people. Cary had also remembers hearing a plane to kill someone, she thought it was a joke; soon she is almost certain who the stalker is. Cary doesn't know what to do; she does not want to tell her father because he'll be worry and just might drop out of being governor.

If you don't like to read, you should definetely check this book out! ITS ABOUT a girl accidentally!! hearing on two men talk about a murder, which was a BIG mistake! Now those men are after her.......but little do they know that the suspects are right in their face. When the girl finds out.........SORRY! YOUR GONNA HAVE TO READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!! BUT I PROMISE YOU THAT YOU'LL LOVE IT!

This is a great book full of alot of excitement and many details that makes you want to never ever put the book down.It's about a girl named Cary whose father is running for governor of Texas.She knows her life will change, but she never thought it would this much.She gets mysterious phone calls and is framed of actions she did not do.She thinks at first that it is just political rivalry but then realizes the cause of some of these horrible things is that she overheard 2 men talking about something they didn't want anyone to know, but she didn't hear everything and they don't know that.Now she tring to find who is threating her, why, and what they are hiding.With some help from some friends, she figures out what the 2 men were up to before she or her friends are harmed.I hoped my review helped and if you buy this book I hope you enjoy it.

P.S.-I'm ten and I recommend this book for 10&up for both genders

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Another Joan Lowery Nixon book, they only seem to advance. Hate reading? Nixon makes sure you learn to love it! She's entertaining and at the same time thrilling. I've read two of her other books such as The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore and Secret, Silent Screams and found them both spectacular! A Candidate for Murder was very fast pace, never dragging. Every time I picked the book up it was like a thriller roller coaster ride that I couldn't get off till I make it to the end. Nixon makes it so that you almost feel like your one of the characters, which leaves your heart racing. I really enjoyed reading this book. No wonder she's a Four-Time Edgar Award Winner who is always at her best!