No One Heard Her Scream by Jordan Dane (Romantic Suspense)

Release date is March 25th!!! Nothing a person can read about this book will ever match the experience of reading it. Do not look at the end or any spoilers under any circumstances....every twist here is so important and a reader doesn't want to miss the evolution and the fine details of this kind of unusual spiritual thing going on in the search for justice and to hear the silenced scream of the victims and their families --- reading a spoiler doesn't prevent me from reading a book (you can't believe the things I held back here!) but I just have to say...don't do it with this book.

I am totally psyched because she has 2 more coming soon and I don't have to wait a year ---- No One Left to Tell (May) and No One Lives Forever (June 2008).

The date on the ARC has a March release date but some internet sites list April 1st as the release date.  The heroine here is very special...   I just have to say that when i read this one, I said to myself, "Ah, this is the kind of suspense I really love but is so hard to find today!"  I am not sure I can describe it other htan to say I left this book with way more than a great thrill and chill.  This would make an awesome movie except I am afraid Hollywood wouldn't get what was so special in the book and remove it.

Kathy, thanks.  This was a great read.  I did find out the real release date is March 25th.  I already pre-ordered a copy.  I like to take notes when I read but when I really love a book I want a clean copy for my shelves too to keep next to it.  I have acouple of books like that on my shelves, mostly medieval romances and a couple of my absolute favorite suspense authors. Usually I feel I need 2 books to get a true feel of an author but this one hit me in so many of the right spots --- she has this kind of vision ---- that to me, she is already in that group.

I did! I think I am in 7th heaven when it comes to suspense! Reading Amanda Stevens, Jordan Dane and even the Victorian mystery by Deanna Raybourne so close together is just an awesome reading experience.

Right now I have 2 books that I know are candidates for my 2008 Top Ten list --- this book and Catherine Palmer's The Briton. Talk about 2 entirely different kinds of reads!

I like a lot of suspense, but today, the authors that really click with me that I have discovered recently are Amanda Stevens, Rita Herron, Suzanne Forster and now this author. This is very embarrassing to admit but with those 4 authors (plus many Medievals), I have 2 copies on my personal shelves---one to write in and one to keep. No matter what I do to break my habit, I really do enjoy a book more when I underline and take notes. It is part of the reading pleasure I think. Over the years I have bought even more reading copies of one of my favorites, Malory's Arthurian works in the original language. I actually wish I had bought one more because it is out of print and I no longer have clean copy.

I love new books too actually, particularly the smell of ink and paper.... just put your nose in a new Harlequin book! It really bothers me to see any damage at all in a new book but I won't start my rant against the USPS and UPS here (other than to say I do not understand why a shipping company should not be able to get a book in a box safely from one destination to another) but for reading and writing about books, I do take pleasure too in taking notes in them. I have copies of Amanda Stevens, Rita Herron (starting with Last Kiss Goodbye) and Suzanne Forster that are flawless and sealed in plastic to keep off dust next to my reading copies. And soon this author too. Same thing with my Medievals. It's a bit embarrassing but for those books that really, really mean something to me, I need both a reading copy and a clean keeper copy.

I buy plastic 1m polybags from Uline.com in boxes of 1000. I buy 3 different sizes, one for MMPB, one for Trades and small HC, and one for standard HCs. I generally just fold them over and then tape them shut but this company has all kinds of thicknesses and sealable versus not. They are housed in Texas too. Also...to remove those awful terrible sticky labels some stores use, I use this product called Absorene or something like that (tub is across the rooom) from this company Brodart which has all sorts of cool book things and archival book products.

I am glad I am not the only one who is crazy about books. Sometimes certain authors just resonate with me very deeply and I need two copies. The weird thing for me is that my reading copy with notes is just as special to me as my clean pristine copy. I bag them both to protect & keep out dust now.

I do not spend a lot of time housecleaing.  There is a reason why I protect my books.  I have a large personal library.  When my apartment was flooded in NC, my books all got full of mud and mold.  I had to shovel them out and throw them all away....shelves and shelves of books.  I never really thought about doing anything with books til then.  As I have gotten older, dust is one of the few things that triggers my asthma.  It's a lot easier to keep dust off books in the long term if they are in bags.  

This book blew me away. I have 3 favorite suspense authors now that just resonate with me beyond the great read and very well written book --- Amanda Stevens and Rita Herron and now Jordan Dane. I love lots and lots of books but these authors just click with me on a level I can't quite describe without making spoilers --- which I won't do.  I can't wait to have some spoiler discussions with you on this book and also on Amanda Stevens' book!  I almost wish we could have a part of the community here for spoiler/book club discussions but a part that isn't available to the general public or search engines. probably not even possible. Sometimes there are books that have such awesome things inside that a person just really wants to share and to celebrate those parts of a read.

Jeannie, most definitely.  I have read a few bits about her next ones and I can tell they are right up my alley.