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    Cold Cold Heart
    Cold Cold Heart
    Cold Cold Heart
    Audiobook (abridged)6 hours

    Cold Cold Heart

    Written by Tami Hoag

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

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    A thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag, “one of the most intense suspense writers around” (Chicago Tribune).

    Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until a notorious serial killer tried to add her to his list of victims. Nearly a year has passed since she survived her ordeal, but the physical, emotional, and psychological scars run deep. Struggling with the torment of post-traumatic stress syndrome, plagued by flashbacks and nightmares, Dana returns to her hometown in an attempt to begin to put her life back together. But home doesn’t provide the comfort she expects.

    Dana’s harrowing story and her return to small-town life have rekindled police and media interest in the unsolved case of her childhood best friend, Casey Grant, who disappeared without a trace the summer after their graduation from high school. Terrified of truths long buried, Dana reluctantly begins to look back at her past. Viewed through the dark filter of PTSD, old friends and loved ones become suspects and enemies. Questioning everything she knows, refusing to be defined by the traumas of her past, Dana seeks out a truth that may prove too terrible to be believed.…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 13, 2015
    ISBN9781480598911
    Cold Cold Heart
    Author

    Tami Hoag

    TAMI HOAG is the #1 international bestselling author of more than thirty books. There are more than forty million copies of her books in print in more than thirty languages. Renowned for combining thrilling plots with character-driven suspense, Hoag first hit the New York Times bestseller list with Night Sins, and each of her books since has been a bestseller. She lives in California.

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    • 5/5
      Wow! This was amazing! I wasn’t sure where she was going, but she sure took me to interesting places! Great read! Excellent ending!
    • 3/5
      This book continues straight after 'The 9th Girl' with the kidnap of Dana Nolan by the serial killer called Doc Holiday. Novac and Liska who have appeared in several books are on the case. They however are not in the story long as it's continues with Dana and what happens to her with her quest to find what has happened to her missing friend Casey.This book for me was ok and nothing brilliant. I enjoy Tami Hoag books but for me this was missing msin characters that I know and also the romance element. This section may contain spoilers.I also found the book to be at times unrealistic. Firstly Dana is recovering from severe injuries, sone to the head. She has trouble remembering things, some are basic as shoes on her feet. However she seems to recover very quickly and is soon running around like Nancy Drew trying to solve the clues. Saying all this the book was an ok, average thriller. There was enough to hold my interest but I felt it dragged on at times. Tami Hoag is a great author in the genre of romantic suspense and crime novels but this one isn't her best.
    • 3/5
      Not a bad story, but I am not crazy about how it ended. Seemed like little to almost no resolution. I don't know, not bad but not great.
    • 5/5
      It has been a very busy recovery for victim and to co e close to another killer from her past not knowing that her own forum boy friend was the one responsible for the disappearances of her best friend. The discovery almost led her acrossing the part of another killer.
    • 5/5
      10 audio discs 4.5 ★ At first I thought I would be mildly impressed with this thriller. Unlike many friends, I'm not the perceptive connoisseur of suspense. Then (doing audio), the emotional and psychological parameters of PTSD and memory loss impacted me. I ended the book feeling as I'd read a terrific stand alone thriller.
    • 4/5
      This is the first book I've read from this author, and I'll definitely read more. Dana is the only victim of a serial killer to survive. She has horrendous injuries, both physical and mental, and suffers from PTSD. When she finally arrives home, she's drawn into the mystery of her best friend's disappearance many years previously.The book starts a little slow as the author details Dana's therapy from her severe brain injuries; she can't complete small tasks, can't always think of a word she wants, and blurts out her thoughts. She was a news reporter and knows she won't be able to ever go back to that job, but she can focus on research, and her friend Casey's unsolved disappearance is what she investigates. As she gets closer to a possible solution, she puts herself in more and more danger.Ms. Hoag does a nice job of obfusticating the real killer but I still figured out the mystery before the end. This is a good read though, and the author does a nice job of showing how someone with PTSD copes. Johnny, Casey's old boyfriend and a suspect in her disappearance, also has PTSD and a brain injury from his tour in the Iraq war. Dana thinks of herself as two different people, one before her abduction and one after. It was interesting to see her introspection in looking back at her younger self.This is definitely a good book for the beach or a trip read.
    • 4/5
      As someone who has had a brain injury from sepsis 13 years ago, I must say that this author has really done her research. Ms. Hoag must have interviewed dozens of survivors, and asked them how they feel. Her writing was spot-on.
      I found nothing in this novel repetitive at all, like some readers have. I was not very sure which character was the killer until they struck again at the end, and I had been waive ring between a couple of guys, actually. The ending might have even been possible, given the circumstances.
      All in all, a good, quick read with no glaring errors or gaffs. Very entertaining. 4 solid stars.
    • 3/5
      Quick summer read. A newscaster is captured by a serial killer. She survives and the story takes off from there about her recovery and a new mystery comes to light
    • 4/5
      4.5 chilling stars.

      Cold Cold Heart by Tami Hoag is a very compelling and intriguing murder mystery. The unique storyline also provides an in-depth and interesting glimpse into the psychological and physical after-effects of traumatic brain injuries and PTSD. The resulting story is captivating and it is quite interesting watching the pieces of the puzzle fall into place.

      Lead protagonist Dana Nolan is the only survivor of sadistic serial killer but she is forever changed by her harrowing ordeal. Beaten, tortured and raped after her kidnapping, she managed to escape but she suffered a traumatic brain injury that she is still struggling to overcome. After months of intensive therapy, she is finally released from the hospital but she is far from healed. Dana has long and short term memory problems and she has difficulty handling ordinary, everyday tasks. No longer the sunny, confident, cheerful young woman she was before the kidnapping, Dana is dealing with anger and impulse control issues and her memory gaps leave her doubting her judgment.

      Dana's return to her childhood sparks renewed interest in her best friend Casey Grant's long ago disappearance. On her first night back in town, Dana runs into Casey's ex-boyfriend, John Villante, who was a person of interest during the original investigation. John is a veteran who is fighting to make a life for himself following his discharge from the military, but his PTSD makes it difficult for him to hold down a job.

      Dana also quickly crosses paths with her first love, Tim Carver. Once the town's Golden Boy, Tim's future did not quite go the way he planned, and he, too, has recently returned to their hometown. Now a deputy with the local police department, he is still charming and good natured and while he is sympathetic to Dana's situation, Tim discourages her from her investigation.

      But the most difficult change for Dana's family is her unexpected antipathy toward her stepfather, Roger. A state senator currently in a tight race for re-election, Roger has largely ignored Dana during her recovery and he is impatient with the changes in her personality. Their current interactions are antagonistic and his lack of understanding of her medical conditions leads to some very tense situations between the two.

      At first Dana's recollection of those long ago events is hazy, but she quickly begins to piece together the days leading up to Casey's disappearance. New information comes to light and her viewpoint of certain events changes, and leads her a very startling discovery. The murderer hatches a desperate plan to silence her and Dana unwittingly puts herself in danger as she tries to make sense of everything she has uncovered.

      Cold Cold Heart by Tami Hoag is a riveting novel that is impossible to put down. A large suspect pool, red herrings and unexpected twists and turns make it difficult to figure out the killer's identity. Fans of the genre do not want to miss this suspense laden and immensely fascinating mystery.
    • 3/5
      I do like Tami Hoag's books.
    • 4/5
      Continuation of the story "The 9th Girl". The book kept my interest, and kept me guessing as to the murderer.
    • 5/5
      Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until a notorious serial killer tried to add her to his list of victims. Nearly a year has passed since surviving her ordeal, but the physical, emotional, and psychological scars run deep. Struggling with the torment of post-traumatic stress syndrome, plagued by flashbacks and nightmares as dark as the heart of a killer, Dana returns to her hometown in an attempt to begin to put her life back together. But home doesn’t provide the comfort she expects. Dana’s harrowing story and her return to small town life have rekindled police and media interest in the unsolved case of her childhood best friend, Casey Grant, who disappeared without a trace the summer after their graduation from high school. Terrified of truths long-buried, Dana reluctantly begins to look back at her past. Viewed through the dark filter of PTSD, old friends and loved ones become suspects and enemies. Questioning everything she knows, refusing to be defined by the traumas of her past and struggling against excruciating odds, Dana seeks out a truth that may prove too terrible to be believed…
    • 4/5
      This one made me jump several times, I enjoyed the story of a woman dealing with brain trauma as the result of being attacked by a serial killer (and that sentence makes me a little scared of me). Dana Nolan had a promising career as a TV reporter when a serial killer interrupts everything. She kills him to survive and this is where the story begins. Now she has to deal with brain damage and moving home. She starts to look at her former self, curious about the past and stumbles on the mystery that was her friend. When they graduated high school her friend disappeared and it's all a huge mystery that she can't believe she hasn't investigated before this. She's back with friends and family and other people with issues, including her friend's ex-boyfriend who has survived the army and now his PTSD is causing him problems too.A compelling listen.
    • 4/5
      Dana is the survivor from the prior book - The 9th girl. I found Dana's struggle to adjust to her new life after the injures she received to her brain very interesting.. Dana is trying to piece back together her life and her memory. Her mother wants to protect her from anything bad. Her relationship with her step-father is strained. That portion I enjoyed very much.The mystery not so much, it turned out how I guessed it would.
    • 3/5
      Cold Cold Heart by Tami Hoag tells us the story of a young journalist by the name of Dana Nolan who is abducted one day by a sadistic serial killer known as Doc Holiday. She is also his only know survivor, having killed him to make her escape. It is the story of how Dana struggles to piece together her shattered life while dealing with a traumatic brain injury and PTSD, after being both physically and mentally scarred from her ordeal.

      I have to say that I did struggle through the first half of the book. There seemed to be a lot of time spent on explaining Dana's scrambled memories and her battle with the PTSD and the TBI. Although I totally recognize the need to understand what the character was going through, at times I found it all a little overwhelming. I found the book to be more of a dramatic mystery more than the psychological thriller I was expecting. This isn't to say that I didn't enjoy the book because I did, I tend to go for those "edge-of-your-seat" type thrillers where the twists and turns have your brain working overtime. And although I thought this was a decent story, it just wasn't one of my favorites.
    • 3/5
      This book got off to a very slow start for me. I felt like entirely too much time was spent beating the details of Dana's brain injury to death. Given the author's note at the end, I, in hindsight, can appreciate why this aspect of the story was so important to her but it really went too in depth for this kind of book.Once the story got rolling it was entertaining and interesting with lots of possible suspects. One lucky guess and you could have had it all wrapped up early on. But all in all it was a decent story.I just noticed while at the bookstore yesterday the story 9th Girl by Tami Hoag and realized that what I was listening to was part of a series. I didn't know this going into the story and I didn't feel like I was hindered at all by not having read any previous books. Worked fine as a standalone.
    • 4/5
      Dana is the only surviving victim of a serial killer. We see how she gets away from the killer within the first few pages, which is chilling. The effects of her kidnapping have changed Dana forever. She was beaten, tortured, raped and has to relearn most of her motor skills. She once had a bright future as a television news reporter, but now she is living with her mother and step-father, who is running for Senate. Dana’s personality has changed also. She is angry and upset and not as friendly as she used to be. Her life is destroyed and she can barely function.

      Dana also reacquaints herself with her high school boyfriend. He is back in town as a law enforcement officer. He reminds her she is not the only person who disappeared from their town. It seems her best friend went missing and her fate has never been learned. Dana begins to search out what happened to her friend and that places her in danger once again.

      This is one of the author's most suspenseful and well written books yet. She does a great job of getting into Dana's mind and showing the limitations that have been imposed on her by her experiences. Dana's actions are like those of someone with PTSD, and it is obvious Tami Hoag has done her research. She also knows how to keep her plot moving and the suspense growing. Each page increases the pressure and the final climactic scenes are very suspenseful. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I did listen to the audio version narrated by Julia Whelan who did a great job.
    • 4/5
      Slow start, but got so intense!
    • 4/5
      Tami Hoag's novel does a good job explaining the difficulty a person has in dealing with a traumatic brain injury. In the author notes at the end of the story, the author explains that she suffered from this injury herself validating the reality of the story.Dana Nolan is an upcoming TV news anchor and is kidnapped by a serial killer nicknamed Doc Holiday. She's tortured and mentally abused but manages to kill her abductor and escapes her confinement. The remainder of the story deals with Dana attempting to regain her memory and to find the person who killed her best friend, Casey Grant, who disappeared seven years ago.As Dana returns home from her rehabilitation, she encounters John Valenti. He's discharged from the military and suffers PTSD from his military experiences. John used to date Casey Grant in high school and was interviewed when Casey disappeared but he was not charges.Dana has a manner in dealing with her injury and in her attempt to learn what happened to Casey, Dana divides her memory in two. After Dana are the events after her abduction and before Dana is everything else.There are a number of red herrings and plot surprises.The characters are fully developed and the story has nice suspense. I think the struggle of Dana and of John dealing with their brain injuries and not giving up provide a good lesson for others dealing with brain injuries or other medical issues.
    • 5/5
      A special thank you to Zondervan Non-Fiction and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Herbert Cooper delivers an eye-opening story of his personal journey with BUT GOD. How God transformed his life, showing up in the middle of a desperate situation, offering hope, love and forgiveness. During his youth, Herbert Cooper was headed down a very different road, living a reckless lifestyle that would have destroyed him in the end, but God had a different plan. There was alcoholism and abuse, and parent’s divorce which shattered his world. He felt angry, confused, isolated, and lonely—devoting his life to sports, especially football. However, he was unhappy. Cooper tells his own story of pain and redemption in BUT GOD. As he reiterates, we all have to admit we need God. We have to acknowledge our fear, unhappiness, and loneliness, and recognize that we are lost. The “But God moments” are when God comes in and offers a new path and hope for our lives. These moments occur when we are at are lowest, and turn our down-trodden worlds around for the better. It is up to us to recognize and seize these moments when they occur and follow the renewed path God offers. In each case, it’s the difference between a human perspective and God’s viewpoint. What looks impossible to us becomes not only possible but easy for God. When you have a “but God” moment in your life, what follows that moment will be drastically different from what came before it. Sometimes God intervenes and everything literally changes in a single moment. Other “But God” transformations occur over time – days, weeks, months, even years and require ongoing faith as God fulfills his promise. Sometimes God meets us in a dramatic revelations and we experience a “but god” moment instantly. Other times we simply experience the quiet assurance of His presence, protection, and provision during difficulties and challenging seasons of life. Often we don’t even see God’s intervention until we look back. In hindsight, we see how God showed up, sustained us, helped us, healed us, directed us, led us, and provided for us. The change possibly does not occur overnight, but God definitely shows up and transforms our situation and draws us closer to him in the process. We all get to a point where our lives have to change and sometimes we rarely see beyond our immediate circumstances to envision a solution. Especially when we are at our lowest and have nowhere else to turn. At this point we cannot imagine anything positive ever coming from what we are currently facing. But no matter how bleak, boring or bitter your life may seem right now, your story is not over yet. Herbert heard the gospel at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting, at which he was not even supposed to be in attendance; he gave his life to Christ. Two words changed Cooper’s life: But God. No matter if it happens instantly or takes years to recognize a “but God” experience changes everything! An honest testimony filled with compassion, scriptures, parables, prayer support, and inspiration for all ages and faiths.
    • 4/5
      Dana Mercer is the only survivor of a serial killer. Suffering from a tramatic brain injury, she returns home to heal, only to be plunged into the 10 year old disappearance of her best friend which has never been solved.
    • 3/5
      Tami Hoag is one of my very favorite suspense writers. But this book was a disappointment. It moved painfully slow up until the second half of the book, the majority of the writing taking place in the mind and background of Dana Nolan. I loved the character, but her story needed more action and dialogue to be entertaining. More of a psychological drama here than a true suspense read. Great story, but poorly executed, unfortunately. Way too much excess wordage.
    • 3/5
      This was a good book. Also a fast read. Despite the fact that I found the intensity level lacking some. I thought it would have been higher. The characters were middle of the road. Nothing too special about them. Also not too many twists or turns in the plotline. Fans of mystery stories will probably figure out the whole story fairly early into the story. The obvious choice had too many clues pointing at them to make you really believe it was them. I was really interested in Dana and what she had survived with her ordeal. Yet I was saddened when I realized that it had nothing to do with the story. Although I was greatful that Dana had a story behind her. It did make her a strong character and added depth to her. Besides the intensity that I talked about, if the rest of the characters had been more engaging I would have liked this book better. Still I am happy with it and do look forward to reading the next book by this author.