When Night Falls [Kindle Edition]

Margaret Daley (Author)

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Product Description

A violent encounter in a deserted parking lot is FBI agent Sam Pierce’s only clue to the menace who is stalking child psychologist Jocelyn Gold. A random event? Or a client’s revenge? When darkness falls, the danger deepens....

From the Author

When Night Falls is a prequel to What Sarah Saw, a Love Inspired Suspense. When Night Falls was written to set up the hero and heroine who will meet again in What Sarah Saw.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 117 KB
• Publisher: Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense (October 9, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002TKFF18
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (92 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,800 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Margaret has been writing for over 20 years. She started writing in the late 1970s because she wanted to see if she could put a whole story down on paper. That book is still in the drawer and will never see the light of day. But she was able to finish a book, which was her goal.
She decided after that to get some help, and joined a writers' roundtable where she met once a week with some fellow writers who went over each other's work. She sold her first book in the early 1980s and has been selling ever since.
She loves to tell a story. When she was a little girl she made up stories while playing with her dolls. On long trips with her family she would weave a story about the surrounding countryside. From those early beginnings grew a love of entertaining people with a story.
When she went away to college, she met her husband, Mike, to whom she has been married for over 30 years. He is her support and her best friend. She has always felt she was the luckiest woman the day she bumped into him on campus.
When they married, they moved to Tulsa, where she finished her degree in special education and began teaching. She still teaches today and loves working with students with special needs. They help her remember what is important in life. She also participates in the Special Olympics as a coach with her students and has attended the State Games in May for years.
Besides teaching and writing, she is also a mother of one. Her son, Shaun, loves animals and there have been times they could have their own zoo at the house. The most interesting pet Shaun has is a leopard tortoise, which could outlive him. She has joked that his children will be inheriting a tortoise. Shaun is getting married to his high school sweetheart. Margaret hopes that they are as happy as she and her husband are.
When she isn't working, she loves to read, travel, and go to lunch and a movie with a friend. She has been to many countries in the world and loves to meet new people. Her favorite place is Tahiti -- Bora Bora. It is as beautiful as all the pictures portray it.
In her travels she has found herself in some interesting situations. Once, in London, she got caught in the middle of a protest that later turned into a riot over poll taxes. In the rain forest of Costa Rica, she was covered from head to toe in mud and ruined a perfectly good outfit. She should have remembered it was going to be wet since it was called a rain forest. In Rio, she and a friend were left with no means to get back to the hotel on the other side of the city. Neither Margaret nor her companion spoke Portuguese and there wasn't a cab in sight. Thankfully one finally pulled up to the curb at the museum because she couldn't see herself hiking across Rio to get back to the hotel.

Customer Reviews

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315 of 326 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Painful....., October 31, 2009

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G Man (Maryland) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: When Night Falls (Kindle Edition)

This is quite possibly the worst book I have ever read. I have read short stories by high school students that were far superior to this. If this were a 10th grade writing assignment, I'd give it a "B". There is no plot development, no mystery, no originality. Even the title has been used several times. I cannot imagine a publisher ever accepting this novella for publication. The story is shallow and the dialogue is downright comical in most places. Does anybody really talk like this??

My only comfort is that I downloaded it free on Kindle so I'm only out an hour or so of time. I'm not sure, though, that I'll ever recover from some of the sappy dialogue in this book.

190 of 202 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars suspense for dummies, October 28, 2009

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Annalyn Chacon (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: When Night Falls (Kindle Edition)

free? yes. worth it? no.
This book seems like the kind of book they would pass out in a church youth group. It has no development, a mediocre plot, and odd religious undertones that seem out of place. look at who the publisher is and it makes sense.

142 of 152 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible, October 26, 2009

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Emily M. Stanchfield "Bookworm" (SCV, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: When Night Falls (Kindle Edition)

Feels rushed, more of a short story than a novel. No character development at all. Free but not even worth the time.