Quiet Time

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Summary: A masterful suspense yarn
Review: This book is well written and keeps you guessing - even if you tend to peek. The character development is extremely strong. Quiet Time will cause you to look at your neighbors with renewed interest. As a retired professor, I found the casual approach to romantic liasons by youthful students to be right on target as well. The campus cops should read the book as well as the students.

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Summary: A masterful suspense yarn
Review: This book is well written and keeps you guessing - even if you tend to peek. The character development is extremely strong. Quiet Time will cause you to look at your neighbors with renewed interest. As a retired professor, I found the casual approach to romantic liasons by youthful students to be right on target as well. The campus cops should read the book as well as the students.

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Summary: Review of Quiet Time
Review: This is a wonderful new book that begins quickly and builds suspense throughout. The characters are well drawn, particularly Sari and the retired detective, Ray. They continue to grow and become stronger as the story itself intensifies and nears its end.
The setting is also excellent. As a Coloradan, I love the sense of place, both the city and the smaller rural towns. It's very real and believable.
I loved Blind Spot but this book is even stronger and more convincing.I'm looking forward to more from Stephanie Kane.

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Summary: A JUXTAPOSITION OF NORMALCY WITH THE MACABRE
Review: What a great read--a psychological thriller with a sensitive side--QUIET TIME juxtaposes the macabre with normalcy in a small town in middle America. An anatomy of a seemingly normal family--the Scotts live a quiet life on a quiet street. Plans for their son Tim's marriage to his college sweetheart, Sari Siegel, are under way when Mrs. Scott is found in their garage bludgeoned to death by a claw hammer. Though Sari barely knows the Scott's, she senses something sinister about the murder, but she keeps it to herself and goes ahead with her marriage to Tim. Though Peggy Scott's murder remains unsolved it opens a Pandora's Box of secrets and lies, duplicity and complicity, making happiness for everyone involved, forever illusive. I promise you won't be able to stop reading until the very last page, and, I predict that Stephanie Kane, author of last year's critically acclaimed debut mystery BLIND SPOT, has a very bright literary future.

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Summary: Quiet Time is a Waste of Time
Review: Where has Stephanie Kane been all of my reading life? In Quiet Time, her second book, she establishes herself without question as a master of the psychological thriller. It's replete with believable characters (normal people, killers, lawyers, cops are all drawn with a fine touch, like those Persian artists who use a one-hair brush to bring every nunance to the surface), a plot that will draw you in from the prologue and keep you riveted to the final page, and superb writing talent. I have purchased five copies for family and friends so far, and all of them thank me and enthusiastically recommend the book to others. Read it, and you'll thank me -- and Stephanie Kane -- too.

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Summary: Best-written edge-of-seat novel of 2001
Review: Where has Stephanie Kane been all of my reading life? In Quiet Time, her second book, she establishes herself without question as a master of the psychological thriller. It's replete with believable characters (normal people, killers, lawyers, cops are all drawn with a fine touch, like those Persian artists who use a one-hair brush to bring every nunance to the surface), a plot that will draw you in from the prologue and keep you riveted to the final page, and superb writing talent. I have purchased five copies for family and friends so far, and all of them thank me and enthusiastically recommend the book to others. Read it, and you'll thank me -- and Stephanie Kane -- too.