Guilty as Sin: A Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

Tami Hoag (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 27, 2009

A cold-blooded kidnapper has been playing a twisted game with a terrified Minnesota town. Now a respected member of the community sits in jail, accused of a chilling act of evil. But then another boy disappears, triggering panic in tiny Deer Lake. Have the police caught the wrong man? Or is there an even more sinister mind calculating each perverse move?

Prosecutor Ellen North believes she's building a case against the right man—and that he has an accomplice in the shadows. Suddenly she's swept into their dark game, her role changed from hunter to prey. And soon she wonders if she's a match for her opponent...an evil mind as guilty as sin.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

If her knuckle-whitening thriller Night Sins made you lock your doors, bolt your windows and turn on all the lights - keep them that way. Tami Hoag's latest bestseller will make you glad you did. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Publishers Weekly

In this follow-up to the Night Sins, a prosecutor tries to convict a respected college professor of kidnapping.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Bantam; Reprint edition (October 27, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 055359351X
• ISBN-13: 978-0553593518
• Product Dimensions: 4.1 x 1.2 x 6.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (101 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #815,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tami Hoag is the #1 international bestselling author of more than thirty books published in more than thirty languages worldwide, including her latest thrillers--Deeper Than The Dead, and Secrets To The Grave. Set in the late '80's, this series explores crime fighting in the early days of modern forensic science and criminal profiling. Renowned for combining thrilling plots with character-driven suspense, Hoag first hit the New York Times Bestseller list with Night Sins, and each of her books since has best a bestseller. She leads a double life in Palm Beach County, Florida where she is also known as a top competitive equestrian in the Olympic discipline of dressage.

Customer Reviews

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I wish I had known, November 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Guilty as Sin: A Novel (Deer Lake) (Mass Market Paperback)

I really enjoyed this book but I agree that some expansion could have been done regarding the "kidnappers" and what led them to their crime. My main complaint is that I had picked up both Guilty as Sin and Night Sins and had no idea Guilty as Sin was the sequel and read it first. There was no indication of that anywhere in the book. Should have visited amazon.com first!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Unresolved suspense., November 24, 1999

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Noemi C. Arthur (Falls Church, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guilty as Sin: A Novel (Deer Lake) (Mass Market Paperback)

I read both Night Sins and Guilty as Sin in the order they were written. Ms. Hoag spins an intricate web of mystery with twists and turns littering the path to the truth about who kidnapped a little boy in a Minnesota town. She also injects into the storyline romance fraught with secrets and obstacles for the main characters. Unfortunately Ms. Hoag does not answer all the questions that the plot poses. While the identity of the perpetrator of the crime is revealed, the books never delve into the whys and the hows. Instead, the reasons for masterminding a kidnapping and performing mind control on a child are summarized in a few vague pages. Since Ms. Hoag spent almost 1200 pages leading up the resolution she could have written a few more which explained the motives of the kidnappers.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Book 2 as good as the First one!, September 26, 2000

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Marcia L. Hopkins - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guilty as Sin: A Novel (Deer Lake) (Mass Market Paperback)

In Guilty as Sin the story centers on the child abduction that began in Night Sins. The story surrounds the perpetrator of the abduction of eight-year-old Josh Kirkwood. Ellen North, County Prosecutor and Mitch Holt, Police Chief for Deer Lake, Minnesota investigate. Ellen North must build a case against a suspect most people don't believe to be guilty. This book is as dynamic and riveting as the first and kept me enthralled as the mystery was first built into a more devious story and then slowly unraveled to a climatic end. A great story spread across these two novels. Highly recommended.