Overdue [Paperback]

Richie Tankersley Cusick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1995

Disturbed when five books about death are returned overdue to the library, slashed and containing a warning on a bookmark, library employee Kathleen is terrified when people close to her start falling victim to tragic ""accidents.""

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Simon Pulse (April 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671887432
• ISBN-13: 978-0671887438
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 3.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #543,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As good as Cusick's other books, February 28, 2005

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Lyn (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Overdue (Paperback)

Here is the description on the back of the book:
"It was after hours. Kathleen was preparing to close the library when somebody returned five grisly books about death. One was slashed. All were overdue. Then Kathleen found the bookmark with the deadly warning. Now people close to her are falling victim to tragic accidents. Someone is out for blood. Is it Robin, silent, shy, withdrawn? Is it Alexander, the dark, handsome stranger who haunts the library stacks and says he wants to help? Kathleen can count on only one thing: the killer WILL strike again--her death is overdue...."

Kathleen is working at the creepy old library in town during spring break while the librarian, Miss Finch, attends a seminar. Working with Kathleen is her good friend Robin, a shy, mute young man who always listens to what Kathleen has to say. Then one night someone drops off several long overdue books on murders and torture, with pictures cut out of them, and Kathleen begins to feel uneasy when she finds a bookmark in one of them that reads, "Horrors Await You. Beware." Soon Kathleen's friends begin to get fatally injured, and at every accident site, she finds a book that has to do with the way her friends are being hurt. Who is doing this? Is it Alexander, a college guy who has started hanging around the library? Is it Bran, Kathleen's hot lifelong best friend? Or is it Robin, silent and withdrawn?

The ending was really great, and I never guessed who the killer was. I'm so glad I read this; I almost didn't, because I thought the title was pretty stupid, but I was wrong! Definitely worth anyone's money!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I LOVED THIS BOOK, December 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Overdue (Paperback)

this was the best book, scary but cute and romantic, tipicle teenagers. This is a really good book and i would recomend reading it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well, let me explain..., May 17, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Overdue (Paperback)

I don't know if I liked it or I didn't. The story had to do with those five grisly books on murder for all of five minutes. The rest was about accidents with themes of books and the books being found by Kathleen before somehting would happen somtimes. That was a great idea, and I'm sure it was a little tough, but there was something about the whole story that I didn't like. The ending was monotonous and boring, kind of like a typical R.L. Stine book for a while. The real killer was unpredeictable, and the killer's motive was pretty cool. Yet, what i can't get over is why Kathleen's best friend Bran's mother was always calling her "cara." Is that Italian, becuase she was really Italian, the mother that is.

I absolutely hated the epilogue. Bran and Kathleen become more than friends. That is so dumb. It's like going witht the thought that all boy-girl friendships end up or really are boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. That offends me becuase I have a friend who everyone thinks that way of.

All in all, you have to read it and see how you like it. I kinda liked it, but I don't know.