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Ransom
Ransom
Author: Danielle Steel
PBS Market Price: $8.09 or $4.19+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780440240761
ISBN-10: 044024076X
Publication Date: 1/25/2005
Pages: 400
Rating:
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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3.3 stars, based on 81 ratings
Publisher: Dell
Book Type: Paperback
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28 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

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Helpful Score: 2
Excellent story of a child being kidnapped.
Steele adds suspense along with a nice love
story.
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Danielle Steel explores the collosion of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of life's inexplicable turns of fate and testment to the will to survive.
nunnona05 avatar reviewed Ransom on + 21 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Great story up to the last page!
Readnmachine avatar reviewed Ransom on + 1439 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Didn't finish. Not my thing.
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Fantastic story, highly recommend!
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A widow already dealing with the fact that her "wealthy" husband has left her and 3 children penniless now has to deal with the knowledge that someone is going to try to kidnap one or all of her children. In dealing with this fact, she falls in love with one of the detectives.
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Helpful Score: 1
This book is sooooooo different from her previous books, it had me spellbound what will happen next. Never have I wanted to finish a book just to discover the plot as much as I had this one! I wanted to know if any of the bad guys would turn good in the end. I wanted to know would it really have a happy ending---this is a MUST READ!!!!!!!!
KimsClub avatar reviewed Ransom on + 53 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This suspense novel has automatic appeal for Steel fans!
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One of Danielle Steels better books. Usually I find them too mindless more recently. This one has more feeling. Still Danielle Steels writing style though, but I enjoyed this one.
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BRAND-NEW, UN-USED
lindamarie avatar reviewed Ransom on + 11 more book reviews
Love his book, a real page turner, and hard to put down. If you like Danielle Steel you will enjoy this one.
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I like her books a lot.
miatasheila avatar reviewed Ransom on + 19 more book reviews
This book kept me intrigued m with its twists and turns
topazbutterfly avatar reviewed Ransom on + 21 more book reviews
A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel's 60th bestselling novel, the story of a mother's courage, a family's terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds.
candi63070 avatar reviewed Ransom on + 10 more book reviews
Love all her books.
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A mohers live is drastically changed by events in her life. Her husband died and she is left to care for her child. The child is kidnapped and she eventually falls in love with the detective who helps her. Heart throbbing suspense.
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Peter Morgan is released after four years from prison and vows to redeem himself to his young daughters and at the same time Carl Waters, a convicted murderer is released too. Ted Lee policeman for 29 years has been living for his job and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town in exclusive Pacific Heights, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt, her world destroyed and a marriage lost.
Within weeks, the lives of these three people will collide in ways none of them could of imagined.
Excellent reading as usual for Danielle Steel
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Four different lives. One act that changes everything forever.
vmachapy avatar reviewed Ransom on + 215 more book reviews
Love her... Great Story....
re avatar reviewed Ransom on
Four different lives.
One act that changes everything forever.

Worth the "read".
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Excellent book
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Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer is set on the path of freedom. Three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job -- and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in exclusive Pacific Heights, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost.
HowieB avatar reviewed Ransom on + 72 more book reviews
Outside the gatesof a Califormia prison, Peter Morgan is released after 4 long years and vows to redeem himselfin the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer is set on the same poath of freedom. Three hundred miles south, in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to an empty house; for nine years he has been living for his job-and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in exclusive Pacific Hieghts, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt, a world destroyed and a marriage lost.

Within weeks, the lives of these people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda,whose life had once been graced by security, success and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant but troubled husband had crashed everything down around her and was already too much to bear. Now a devistating crime rocks her family and brings detective Ted Lee into her life - to try and save her family from from a terrifying fate. Racing againstg time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, one one can predict where this tragedy will lead them.
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ver good reading.
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I'm not a Danielle Steele reader but I know many people are
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What a twist!!
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In new conditon
kattkatt99 avatar reviewed Ransom on + 119 more book reviews
A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel's sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother's courage, a family's terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds.
Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job--and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. Four months after her husband's death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost.
Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. She simply couldn't imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its core--and brings Detective Ted Lee into her life.
A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernanda's family from a terrifying fate. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss andbetrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them.
Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of life's inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive.