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The Midnight Hour
The Midnight Hour
Author: Karen Robards
ISBN-13: 9780440225041
ISBN-10: 0440225043
Publication Date: 10/12/1999
Pages: 464
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 94 ratings
Publisher: Dell
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 2
Great book.......surprises right up until the last pages.
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Helpful Score: 1
Good mystery with romance elements.
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Helpful Score: 1
An excellent thriller!
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Good combination of mystery and romance.
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i liked this book it kept me going
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A time to fear...Grace Hart seemd to have it all: a bright, beautiful daughter, a successful career as a judge, and a lovely home in an Ohio suburb. But beneath the placid veneer, darker truths lie waiting. Her fifteen-year-old, Jessica, is teetering on the cusp of drugs and delinquency. And someone is staling the troubled teenager. Someone who has already violated their home and stolen their peace of mind. Now the police are involved. Grade is relieved---and worried. Is Jessica in danger from a drug dealer who wants to silence her?
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Romantic suspense. Grace, living in a suburb in Ohio, has to worry about her 15-year old daughter as well as secrets from the past. And a handsome detective who wants to know everything.
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Really enjoyed this book; another great one by Karen Robards.
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Good Read!
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Great mystery that will keep you guessing as to who the victim really is.
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good read
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good read
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For Grace Hart, single mother and Juvenile and Domestic Court Judge, it's never a problem sorting out other families' affairs, but when her own 15-year-old daughter, Jessica?recently diagnosed with diabetes and unable to come to terms with her disease?begins sneaking out at night, experimenting with drugs and alcohol, and running with a fast crowd, it's a different story. Enter Detective Tony Marino, on the night that one of Jessica's sneak-outs coincides with a stalker breaking into the Hart home in suburban Ohio. Despite the fact that Grace and Tony initially antagonize each other, before long he moves in with the Harts to help defend them from the still-at-large stalker. Formulaic plotting puts a decided damper on any surprises that might be derived from the love story. The characters must convince a skeptical police force that the stalker's manifestations?messages on mirrors, stolen teddy bears, a dead hamster?are more than harmless pranks. Such material might prove credibly spooky coming from a King or a Koontz, but in the hands of Robard (The Senator's Wife) the chills are nearly nil. With its conventional characters, a frothy "angel" motif and a predictable feel-good ending, this book makes for very light suspense-reading, despite steamy romantic scenes and a plot that manages to casually involve working-parenthood, adoption, criminal teens and an ineffective justice system.
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pretty good although there was medical boo boo that I picked up on.
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good book, definately an author worth reading more of.
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good read
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Grace Hart seemed to have it all: a bright, beautiful daughter, a successfull career as a judge, and a lovely home in an Ohio suburb. but beneath the placid veneer, darker truths lie waiting. Her fifteen-year-old, Jessica, is teetering on the cusp of drugs and delinquency. And someone is stalking the troubled teenager. Someone who has already violated their home and stolen their peace of mind.
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For Grace Hart, single mother and Juvenile and Domestic Court Judge, it's never a problem sorting out other families' affairs, but when her own 15-year-old daughter, Jessica?recently diagnosed with diabetes and unable to come to terms with her disease?begins sneaking out at night, experimenting with drugs and alcohol, and running with a fast crowd, it's a different story. Enter Detective Tony Marino, on the night that one of Jessica's sneak-outs coincides with a stalker breaking into the Hart home in suburban Ohio. Despite the fact that Grace and Tony initially antagonize each other, before long he moves in with the Harts to help defend them from the still-at-large stalker. Formulaic plotting puts a decided damper on any surprises that might be derived from the love story. The characters must convince a skeptical police force that the stalker's manifestations?messages on mirrors, stolen teddy bears, a dead hamster?are more than harmless pranks. Such material might prove credibly spooky coming from a King or a Koontz, but in the hands of Robard (The Senator's Wife) the chills are nearly nil. With its conventional characters, a frothy "angel" motif and a predictable feel-good ending, this book makes for very light suspense-reading, despite steamy romantic scenes and a plot that manages to casually involve working-parenthood, adoption, criminal teens and an ineffective justice system.