Every Breath She Takes [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Suzanne Forster (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1999

Someone in L.A. is stalking the stalkers, killing them by playing the perfect victim. The press and the public have made her a hero. But Rio Scott Walker calls her a criminal. The ace detective has a prime suspect--Carlie Bishop. She's the daughter of a U.S. Supreme Court justice, an advocate of personal safety, and a presidential appointee. But Rio knows the moment he looks into her eyes that this good girl is no good. Their attraction is white hot, but he's determined to trap her in this "knuckle-biting romantic suspense" ("Publishers Weekly").

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In her latest (after Husband, Lover, Stranger), Forster weaves a spellbinding tale of murder and intrigue that guarantees a long night of reading suspense. Stalkers are being stalked and given vengeful justice at the hands of the "Femme Fatale." The unknown assailant is dispensing retribution and causing total chaos at the Los Angeles Police Department. Veteran detective R. Scott Walker, known for his unconventional sleuthing style, is in charge of the investigation. He becomes part of the intrigue when he discovers that his prime suspect is Carli Bishop, the daughter of a Supreme Court Justice and the sister of a past lover. Throughout the book, the reader is convinced that all the leading characters are guiltyAand Forster gives nothing away until the final chapters. The story loses a bit of momentum midstream, but Foster, writing in top form, more than compensates with the spine-tingling finale. Doubleday Book Club and Mystery Guild alternates.
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From Library Journal

A killer is luring stalkers to their deaths, and Los Angeles homicide detective Rio Walker's investigation into what the press cleverly calls the "Femme Fatale" murders leads him to Carlie Bishop, a best-selling author and stalking expert, who quickly becomes his number one suspect. Forster leads readers down a serpentine maze of deception and sensual passion in this steamy thriller, which pairs a handsome, brooding hero with an intelligent, courageous heroine. Amidst all the thrills and chills, the author also skillfully illuminates the hell that stalking victims go through. Forster (Husband, Lover, Stranger, Jove, 1998) lives in Newport Beach, CA.AJC, SM
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 559 pages
• Publisher: Wheeler Publishing (September 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568957734
• ISBN-13: 978-1568957739
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,660,144 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ve long been a Susan Forster fan...., April 7, 1999

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Sarah "sssspro" (North East, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Every Breath She Takes (Paperback)

Susan Forster has always been great at defining her characters, and this story shows no change. Rio and Carlie both have many problems to overcome, things stretching back to their childhoods, but do so. I hesitate to say they do so together, because for most of the book they spar around one another, not convinced that the other one isn't guilty. They have problems trusting, which for any good relationshiip is deadly. Rio is a mysterious character, who has a sixth sense, though refuses to call it pysychic. To him it is a learned 'power'...he just learned to listen better than others. Carlie comes from an extremely dysfunctional family though, on the outside they look perfectly normal.

I loved reading this story and breaking into the many layers Ms. Forster plots out for us. This story itself holds many twists and turns, and to be honset, I didn't know 'who dunnit' until the end. Its not often a book surprises me, but this one did. I do not know how accurate her psychological profile of stalker victims are, (since I have no pysch related education) but it seems very well presented. I felt that I was in the mind of the victim. My only criticism is that at times I thought the book was choppy or jumped around too quickly. Its not that I had a hard time keeping up with the story, but I would have liked some explinations or longer descriptions on what was happening. We would be one place which one character, then another place with another character, often times not knowing for a few paragraphs who we were with. I suppose that's one sort of literary license, but I didn't care for it. I also had a hard time defining fact from fantasy. Carlie has some fantasies and many of the scenes are written in such a style that I can't tell (until later) if what I am reading is happening to our heroine or is another of her fantasies. Overall though, this is a great contemp. suspence romance, and pick it up if you can!!!

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Suspenseful, but problematic, July 6, 1999

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This review is from: Every Breath She Takes (Paperback)

One of the more ambitious romantic suspense novels I've read in a while, EVERY BREATH SHE TAKES was undeniably suspenseful, but the romance was hard to buy. Rio and Carlie spend so much of this novel disliking and distrusting each other that their whiz-bang gee-I-love-you revelations at the end left me shaking my head. Rio is an appealing, if somewhat unbelievable, hero. Carlie has enough back story issues for two tortured heroines. They needed to spend a lot more time together on the page communicating calmly and rationally instead of hurling accusations at one another. That time should have come from the excessive amount of time allotted to secondary characters such as Danny and Jo Ellen (both of whom had enough issues to fill an entire novel). Forster starts with an interesting premise, but the execution could have been a lot smoother.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This book sucked me in, then sucked!, October 7, 2005

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This review is from: Every Breath She Takes (Paperback)

The first half or so of the book was engrossing, but somewhere mid book the heroine becomes TOO STUPID TO LIVE (TSTL). I felt the author deliberately manipulated things to the point where none of it was believable anymore. The ending was terrible.

SPOILERsss

How many murderers do you know stop in the middle to go to the bathroom. Even so why not just shoot the bastard when he comes out? And ummm, exactly why is the murderer trying to kill the heroine when he really didn't commit any murders to start with??

And why doesn't the heroine (personal safety expert) grab her handy dandy golf club under the bed? And why didn't she have even a clue what she was going to do with the bastard when she'd deliberately lured him? I mean going to a drive in alone, with no weapon to meet a stalker???? huh? And so on and so forth.